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Kehinde Wiley

(American, born 1977)

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Kehinde Wiley

Easter Realness 6, 2004

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Kehinde Wiley

Easter Realness 7, 2004

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Kehinde Wiley

Sainte Lucie, 2005

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Biography

Timeline

1977
Born in Los Angeles, USA
1999
BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA
2001
MFA, Yale University, New Haven, USA
2002
Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant Recipient
2008
Americans for the Arts, Young Artist Award for Artistic Excellence
2010
USA Network, Character Approved Award
2011
Canteen Magazine, Artist of the Year Award; New York City Art Teachers Association/United Federation of Teachers, Artist of the Year Award
2012
Pratt Legend Award
Lives and works in New York, USA

Exhibitions

2018
Kehinde Wiley Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
Kehinde Wiley: Lit, Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium (solo exhibition)
America’s Presidents, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Beyond Borders: Global Africa, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, United States
Breaking the Mold: Investigating Gender, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, United States
Expanding Narratives: The Figure and the Ground, Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, Chicago, United States
Go Figure, The Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio, United States
Reclamation! Pan African Works from the Beth Rudin Dewoody Collection, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia
RESPECT: Hip-Hop Style & Wisdom, Oakland Museum of California (OMCA), Oakland, United States
Spotlight–Selections from Kehinde Wiley's The World Stage: Israel, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, United States
Talisman in the Age of Difference, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Michael Jackson: On the Wall, National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom
The World's Game: Fútbol and Contemporary Art, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, United States
2017
Kehinde Wiley Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio (solo exhibition)
Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma (solo exhibition)
Kehinde Wiley: In Search of the Miraculous, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom (solo exhibition)
Kehinde Wiley: Trickster, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York (solo exhibition)
30 Americans, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington
Africa Pop Studio, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, New York
ALL THINGS BEING EQUAL…, Zeits Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
Harlem: Found Ways, The Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Selected, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
The Human Form, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
2016
Kehinde Wiley Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington (solo exhibition)
Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia (solo exhibition)
Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic of Fine Arts, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona (solo exhibition)
Lamentation, Petit Palais, Paris, France (solo exhibition)
30 Americans, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
A Material Legacy: The Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemseigger Collection of Contemporary Art, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
Framing Beauty, The Grundwald Gallery, Bloomington, Indiana
In Context: Africans in America, Goodman Gallery and Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, New York
Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne, Ronna and Eric Hoffman of Contemporary Art, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon
Remix, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina
Turn the Page, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, Virginia
Uncommon Likeness: Identity in Flux, Lincoln, Nebraska
Versus Rodin: Bodies across space and time, The Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
You go to my head, Galerie Templon, Paris, France
2015
Kehinde Wiley Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York (solo exhibition)
Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic, Modern Art Museum at Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas (solo exhibition)
Young Artists After Siamesas 1960, Permanent installation, U.S. Embassy Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
30 Americans, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
In Profile: Portraits from the Permanent Collection, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Portraiture Through the Ages, Agnews, London, United Kingdom
Reality of My Surroundings: The Contemporary Collection, Nasher Museum at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
The Rise of Sneaker Culture, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2014
Kehinde Wiley Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Arts For All: Kehinde Wiley, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Florida (solo exhibition)
Kehinde Wiley: Memling, Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio (solo exhibition)
The World Stage: Haiti, Roberts and Tilton, Culver City, California (solo exhibition)
30 Americans, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
Face to Face, Wall to Wall, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana
Forms of Attraction: Kjaerholm, Tenreiro and Selected Works, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
Futbol: The Beautiful Game, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Masculine/Masculine. The Nude Man in Art from 1800 to Present Day, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City, Mexico
Other Ways; Other Times: Influences of African-American Tradition from St. Louis Collections, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
Somos Libres II, Pinacoteca Gianni e Largella Agnello, Torino, Italy
Study from the Human Body, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom History, Bill Hodges Gallery, New York, New York
The Beautiful Game, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
The Figure in Process: de Kooning to Kapoor, 1955-2015, Pivot Art + Culture, Seattle, Washington
The Global Africa Project – Political Patterns, Seoul Museum of Art, curated by Regina Shin, Seoul, Korea
2013
Kehinde Wiley Selected Exhibitions in 2013:
Kehinde Wiley Memling, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona (solo exhibition)
Kehinde Wiley The World Stage: Israel, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California (solo exhibition)
Kehinde Wiley The World Stage: Jamaica, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom (solo exhibition)
The World Stage: Israel, Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho (solo exhibition)
30 Americans, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Adventures of Truth, Painting and Philosophy: A Narrative, Maeght Foundation, Saint-Paul de Vence, France
Eye to I…3,000 years of Portraits, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York
Masculine / Masculine: The Nude Man in Art from 1800 to the Present, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
Through the Eyes of Texas: Masterworks from Alumni Collections, The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
2012
An Economy of Grace, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
The World Stage: Israel, Jewish Museum, New York, USA (solo)
The World Stage: France 1880-1960, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France (solo)
Looped, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, USA
The Human Touch: Selections from the RBC Wealth Management Art Collection, RedLine Gallery, Denver, USA
The Soul of a City: Memphis Collects African American Art, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, USA
30 Americans, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, USA
All I Want is a Picture of You, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
BAILA con Duende, Watts Towers Arts Center and Charles Mingus Youth Arts Center Campus, Los Angeles, USA
The Bearden Project, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA
The Human Touch: Selections from the RBC Wealth Management Collection, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, USA
2011
The World Stage: Israel, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, USA (solo)
Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
30 Americans: Rubell Family Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
RE-Envisioning the Baroque, I.D.E.A. at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, USA
Who, What, Wear: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA
For a Long Time…, Roberts & Tilton, Santa Monica, USA
Capital Portraits: Treasures from Washington Private Collections 1730-2010, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
Being American, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
Parallel Perceptions, NYC Opera, New York, USA
Beyond Bling: Voices of Hip-Hop in Art, Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, USA
2010
The World Stage: India-Sri Lanka, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA (solo)
From Then to Now: Masterworks Contemporary African American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA
The Gleaners: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Sarah and Jim Taylor, Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, Denver, USA
Searching for the Heart of Black Identity: Art and the Contemporary African American Experience, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, USA
The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London, England
Individual to Icon: Portraits of the Famous and Almost Famous from Folk Art to Facebook, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, USA
Summer Surprises, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA
Wild Thing, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, USA
Pattern ID, Akron Art Museum, Akron, USA
Personal Identities: Contemporary Portraits, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Sonoma, USA
The Global Africa Project Exhibition, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA
2009
The World Stage: Africa, Lagos, ArtSpace, San Antonio, USA (solo)
The World Stage: Brazil, Roberts and Tilton, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
Black Light, Deitch Projects, New York, USA (solo)
Reconfiguring the Body in American Art, 1820-2009, National Academy Museum, New York, USA
Creating Identity: Portraits Today, 21C Museum, Louisville, USA
Other People: Portraits from Grunwald and Hammer Collections, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA

Public Collections

The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Nasher Museum of Art, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas
Oak Park Library, Chicago, Illinois
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Pennsylvania
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida
Seattle Museum of Art, Seattle, Washington

Literature

2006
Berwick, Carly, The New York Sun, March 9, 2006
Mason, Christopher, Whitewall Magazine, Premier Issue March 2006
Colman, David, Elle Décor Magazine, March 2006
2005
Golden, Thelma, Interview Magazine, October 2005
Lewis, Sarah, De(i)fying the Masters, Art in America, April 2005
Kehinde Wiley, Top Ten, ArtForum, April 2005
Detrick, Ben, Paint it Black, Complex Magazine, April/ May 2005
Golfar, Fiona, A Season for All Women: Ilona Rich, British Vogue, April 2005
Wood, Eve, Kehinde Wiley Brooklyn Museum review, Flash Art, Jan-Feb 2005
Warsh, Larry. "Kehinde Wiley/ Museums Collect." Museums New York, Spring 2004 Issue
English (US)

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