Tahiti
“I am interested in transformation and artifice. My newest exhibition will engage with the history of France and its outward facing relationship to black and brown bodies, specifically relating to...
View ArticleThe Yellow Wallpaper
‘Kehinde Wiley: The Yellow Wallpaper’ at William Morris Gallery is the artist’s first solo show in a UK museum. Featuring six new large-scale female portraits, the exhibition offers a visual response...
View ArticleA Portrait of a Young Gentleman
A newly commissioned painting by renowned American artist Kehinde Wiley, A Portrait of a Young Gentleman, debuted Oct. 2, 2021 in the historic Thornton Portrait Gallery, across from Thomas...
View ArticleThe Prelude
In his first collaboration with a major UK gallery, American artist Kehinde Wiley explores the artistic conventions and canons of the Western landscape tradition – mountainous, coastal, sublime,...
View ArticleLuncheon on the Grass
Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (1863) is regularly cited as the first modern painting. It is often featured as the first slide in Art History lectures about the history of modernism. More...
View ArticleAn Archaeology of Silence
Curated by Christophe Leribault, An Archaeology of Silence presents a collection of monumental paintings and sculptures, expanding on Kehinde Wiley’s body of work DOWN from 2008. Initially inspired by...
View ArticleColorful Realm
Drawing inspiration from Japanese nature paintings of the Edo period (c.1600–1868), Wiley parallels traditional techniques and materials in nine monumental paintings. Exposed linen highlights the...
View ArticleHavana
Featuring 14 paintings and a three-channel film, HAVANA is informed by Wiley’s focus on the evolution of Black culture globally. Inspired by two visits Wiley made to Cuba, this new body of work...
View ArticleA MAZE OF POWER
It was as a result of the election of Barack Obama in 2008 that Kehinde Wiley began to ponder the question of presidential leadership. In 2012, the American artist, whose work reinterprets...
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