Occupation: Painter Birth: 1977
Mel Bochner was able to give me the tools to look at those types of experiences, register them with my own, but also hold them far enough away to see….
What's interesting about my project recently is that I'm going out into broader global spaces but then isolating at the same time - sort of pushing o….
Whereas I remember being in Dakar, in Senegal, where I have my third studio, and street casting, and I remember looking at the faces of the young men….
While it may seem a little mundane, the material realities of realizing the painting actually have a lot to do with how you should read the painting.….
I was 11 when I was first introduced to live drawing classes and going to art school..
Feudal Europe is over, but it found its way into film culture. It found its way into postmodern painting culture, and we're all here talking about it….
This is something that, as artists, we constantly deal with-throwing away the past, slaying the father, and creating the new. This desire to throw aw….
I think that the Kehinde Wiley brand is something that I'm working towards expanding and to inclusion..
You have to bring books to explain your work..
Like commercial stuff is sort of cheap and disposable and fun and can be sort of interesting in many ways. I love being in popular culture and existi….
There is no pedestrian culture [in South Central Los Angeles]..
Believing that navel-gazing in and of itself can transform itself into something that means something for society. I mean, we are communicative creat….
What came out of that was an intense obsession with status anxiety. So much of these portraits are about fashioning oneself into the image of perfect….
I think that at its best, painting can be an act of juggling perceptions, a hall of mirrors. And it can be a bit confusing and scattering. But as the….
There was no image of the other biological half of myself. And as an artists, as a - as an - as a portraitist, the look of who you are was radically ….
It became a question of taste. I have a certain taste in art history. And that - I had a huge library of art history books in my studio. And I would ….
It never really understood its own situational luxury. And I think that by and large the privilege of being Kehinde Wiley in the 21st century, making….
Almost as though the painting itself becomes the embodiment of a type of struggle for visibility, and this might be considered the main subject of th….
I think that one of the questions that I asked of myself in later years was to this point of the political directive..
There is something to be said about laying bare the vocabulary of the aristocratic measure, right? There's something to be said about allowing the po….
I have been painting white people for much longer in my life than I have done for colored people..