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Kehinde Wiley    (American, 1977)

 Kehinde Wiley - After John Raphael Smith’s A Bacchante after Sir Joshua Reynolds (Photographs)
Kehinde Wiley
After John Raphael Smith’s A Bacchante after Sir Joshua Reynolds 2009
 
 Kehinde Wiley - Head of a Young Girl Veiled and Crowned with Flowers after Julien (Paintings)
Kehinde Wiley
Head of a Young Girl Veiled and Crowned with Flowers after Julien 2008
 
 Kehinde Wiley - The Gypsy Fortune Teller (Paintings) h: 76 x w: 102 in / h: 193 x w: 259.1 cm
Kehinde Wiley
The Gypsy Fortune Teller 2007
 

Biography
1977 Born in Los Angeles, CA.
1999 BFA San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2000 Painting and Popular Culture, Southern Connecticut University, School of Art, New Haven, CT
2001 MFA, Yale University, School of Art, New Haven, CT
2001 A Conversation with John Wilson, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2001 Notes on Modernism, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2002 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant Recipient
2002 The Artist Voice, The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY,NY
2003 Kehinde Wiley, Boston Museum School of Fine Art, Boston, MA

Exhibitions
2009 The World Stage: Africa, Lagos, ArtSpace, San Antonio, TX
The World Stage: Brazil , Robert and Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
The World Stage: Brazil, Modern Art Museum, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
2008 Recognize! Hip Hop and Contemporary The National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC
FOCUS: Kehinde Wiley, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
The World Stage: Africa, Dakar-Lagos The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Down, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami FL
2007 Commemorating 30 Years 1976-2007 Pa, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Portland Art Museum, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
The World Stage: China John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Crossing the Line African American Artists in the Jacqueline Bradl, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Orlando, FL
Nor York States of Mind, Queens Museum of Art, New York City, NY
The Blake Byrne Collection , The Nasher Museum of Contemporary Art, Duke University, NC
Clarence Otis, Jr.Collection, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Orlando, FL
2006 Columbus, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA, May/June (solo)
Infinite Mobility, Columbus Museum of Art, September 11th-January 7th (solo)
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL, August/September (solo)
Kehinde Wiley, Sorry We're Closed, Belgium, June/July (solo)
Down By Law, Wrong Gallery at the Sondra Gilman Gallery, Whitney Museum, New York, NY; January 21st to May 15th
2005 Rumors of War, Deitch Projects, New York (solo)
WHITE, Conner Contemporary, Washington, D.C. (solo)
BOUND, Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis, MN (solo)
Relics and Remnants, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, New York
Neovernacular, Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Maximum Flavor, ACA Gallery, Atlanta College of Art
Neo-Baroque / Tema Celeste , Verona, Italy
2004 Eye of the Needle, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
Passing/Posing, The Paintings of Kehinde Wiley, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, October 8 - Brooklyn, NY (solo)
Glory, Glamour & Gold, The Proposition, New York, NY
She’s Come Undone, Greenberg Van Doren, New York, NY
The New York Mets and Our National Pastime, Queens Museum of Art Beauty, Kravets + Wehby, New York, NY
African American Artists in Los Angeles, A Survey Exhibition: Fade, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, CA
Easter Realness, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
2003 Re: Figure, College of DuPage, The Guhlberg Gallery, Glen Ellyn, IL
Peripheries Become the Center, Prague Biennale 1, Galleria Nazionale Veletrzni Palac Dukelskych Hrdinu 47, Prague
New Wave, Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
Faux/Real, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
Pictures at an Exhibition, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
Pictures at an Exhibition
2002 Passing/Posing, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Painting as Paradox, Artist Space, New York, NY
Mass Appeal, Gallery 101, Ottawa, Canada
Ironic/ Iconic, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Black Romantic, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2001 Its Bigger Than Hip Hop, Rush Arts, New York, NY

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Denver Art Museum, CO
Columbus Museum of Art, OH
Kansas City Museum, MO
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Oak Park Public Library, Chicago, IL
The Studio Museum of Harlem, Harlem, NY
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, VA
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
Minut Museum of Art, NC
Hammer Museum, CA
Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
The Sender Collection, New York, NY
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detrioit, MI

Literature
2006 Berwick, Carly, The New York Sun, March 9, 2006
2006 Mason, Christopher, Whitewall Magazine, Premier Issue March 2006
2006 Colman, David, Elle Décor Magazine, March 2006
2005 Golden, Thelma, Interview Magazine, October 2005
2005 Lewis, Sarah, De(i)fying the Masters, Art in America, April 2005
2005 Kehinde Wiley, Top Ten, ArtForum, April 2005
2005 Detrick, Ben, Paint it Black, Complex Magazine, April/ May 2005
2005 Golfar, Fiona, A Season for All Women: Ilona Rich, British Vogue, April 2005
2005 Wood, Eve, Kehinde Wiley Brooklyn Museum review, Flash Art, Jan-Feb 2005
2004 Fineman, Mia, The History of Art, in Baggy Jean and Bomber Jackets, New York Times, Arts & Leisure, December 19, 2004
2004 Brew-Hammond, Nana Ekua, It’s Bigger than hip-hop, METRO, NY Edition, December 21, 2004
2004 Kehinde Wiley, Museums Magazine Special Edition, 2004
2004 McGee, Celia, Artist going for Baroque on Harlem, New York, Daily News, October 7, 2004
2004 Gonzales, Michael A., Kehinde Wiley: Urban Baroque, Essence Magazine, November 2004
2004 Mwangaguhunga, Ron, Two new shows on the color line, New York Magazine, Sept. 13, 2004
2004 Walker, Dionne, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Black Man: Kehinde Wiley, BET.com, September 2004
2004 Korot, Joyce B., The Neo-Baroque Era, Tema Celeste, Italy, New York, Issue No. 104
2004 Fashion Issue, Black Book Magazine, New York, Fall 2004
2004 Interview with Kehinde Wiley, Loyal Magazine, Stockholm, New York, Issue No. 8
2004 Fitch, Elizabeth, A Portrait of artist Kehinde Wiley, Amsterdam News, Vol.95, No.29/ July
2004 Kehinde Wiley: Prince of Hip Hop Portraiture, SEULE Magazine, Summer 2004
2004 Hawkins, Margaret. "Gallery Glance: Kehinde Wiley." Chicago Sun Times, May 21
2004 Warsh, Larry. "Kehinde Wiley/ Museums Collect." Museums New York, Spring 2004 Issue
2003 Murray, Derek. "Ironic/Iconic." Art in America, March Issue 2003
2003 Kerr, Merrily. "New Wave." Flash Art, March/ April 2003
2003 Cohen, Mark Daniel. "Real Art Ways." Hartford Current 2003
2003 Kim, Christine Y. “Kehinde Wiley Faux Real.” Issue Magazine, December
2003 Myers, Holly. “Scenes far, far out of Tiepolo.” Los Angeles Times, November 7
2003 Wood, Eve. “Acerbic Beauty.” Artnet.com, October
2003 Thompson, Bonsu. “Benefit II Society.” King Magazine, September-October
2003 Stillman, Nick. “Art Seen.” The Brooklyn Rail, August-September
2003 Sirmans, Franklin. “A Bling Bling Baroque.” One World Magazine, August-September.
2003 Weisen, Barbara. “Re: Figure.” College of DuPage, The Guhlberg Gallery, April 3-May 22.
2003 Jackson, Brian Keith. “B-Boy Stance.” Vibe, August
2003 Cortez, Jaime. “Corpus No.1, An HIV Prevention Publication.” APLA, Los Angeles
2003 Stein, Lisa. “Re: Figure Plays With Figurative Painting.” Chicago Tribune, May 5
2002 Plagens, Peter. "Kitsch as Kitsch Can." News Week, May 6, 2002
2002 Gessell, Paul. "At the Hip Hop." Ottawa Citizen, August 30, 2002
2002 Euteneier, Anita. "Hip Hop Appeal." Express, August 29, 2002
2002 Foster, Tonya. "(Re)Direct(ing) Light: Black is and Black Ain’t." Representations, ArtsWire Current, Summer 2002
2002 Samuel Menin & Michele Robecchi. "Focus Painting." Flash Art, October, 2002
2002 Cotter, Holland. "Ironic/Iconic." The New York Times, August 7, 2002
2002 Yablonsky, Linda. "Failing in Love." Time Out Magazine, May 9, 2002
2002 Kimmelman, Michael. " A Black World of Ins and Outs."
2002 The New York Times,April 26, 2002
2002 Saltz, Jerry. "A World Apart." Artnet.com. May 8, 2002
2002 Ross, Andrew. "Andrew Ross on Black Romantic." Art Forum, April 2002
2001 McKanic, Arlene."Death, Pain, Anger, Redemption: It’s Bigger than Hip Hop." Greenwich Village Gazette
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