That's partly the success of my work-the ability to have a young black girl walk into the Brooklyn Museum and see paintings she recognizes not becaus….

So much of the hubris that surrounded conceptual art in the 1950s through '70s was that it had this arrogant presupposition that pointing in and of i….

Women are expected to identify gender as a starting point. Ethnicities are expected to identify that as a location. Is it ever possible for the artis….

[My twin brother] he was the star artist of the family as we - as we were growing up. He eventually lost interest and went more towards literature an….

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 think, something that you might be able to locate in the work that I'm creating today: the ability to look at a black America as something that not….

I think what's really interesting and useful about this question is that ultimately all art is a type of self-portraiture. And so in the act of ident….

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….

All art is self-portraiture..

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….

I was 11 when I was first introduced to live drawing classes and going to art school..

In the end I'm in love with it [Western European easel painting]. And that's where a lot of the influence from the work comes from..

I enjoy Chicago as one of the great American cities. When I come here and take a taxi from the airport, I meet a young man from Somalia. I meet a you….

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..

I think one of the things that I took from Mel [Bochner] specifically was his ability to look at oneself and one's relationship to the history of art….

He's a great - he's a great professor. He retired recently, but.But Peter Halley as well..

In the Studio Museum in Harlem, when I was dealing with that community and dealing with my peers in the streets, it allowed for me to get outside of ….

Mel [ Bochner] held large-form meetings with students. But the stronger points came through when we had the one-on-one critiques. And that's the syst….

In our conversations, he [Michael Jackson] revealed a surprising understanding of art history. We were going through the finer points of the differen….

I think that's kind of indicative of a type of self-confidence that people develop when they recognize their own ability to create..