Artist: Kehinde Wiley

I'm interested in Kehinde Wiley for his use of art history in his studio practice. While he uses the poses and visual cues to inform his compositions, the historical aspects of the original portrait subject are also important to the work as a whole. With my work concentrating on this area where there is so much history to draw from I think that I should be using this to my advantage. I am currently starting to research many aspects of Virginia's history in hopes that I can use what I find to give my work more continuity.







Bio:

EDUCATION
2001 MFA, Yale University, School of Art, New Haven, CT
1999 BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 The World Stage: Brazil, Museu de Arte Moderna, June-August, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2008 Down, Deitch Projects, November-December, New York, NY
The World Stage: Africa, Lagos ~ Dakar, Studio Museum in Harlem, July 16 – October 26, New
York, NY
FOCUS: Kehinde Wiley, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, April 20-May 25, Fort Worth, TX
2007 Kehinde Wiley, Portland Art Museum, May 5-August 19, Portland, OR
The World Stage: China, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, February 11-May 6, Sheboygan, WI
2006 Scenic, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, September 9 – October 14, Chicago, IL
Columbus, Roberts & Tilton, June 3 - July 8, Los Angeles, CA
Columbus, Columbus Museum of Art, September 8 - January 7, Columbus, OH
Kehinde Wiley, Sorry We’re Closed, June - August, Belgium, Brussels

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection, December 3, 2008 - May 30, 2009, Miami, FL
Recognize: Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture, Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait
Gallery, Feb 8-October 26, Washington, D.C.
2007 New York States of Mind, Queens Museum, December 16-March 23, Queens, NY
Commemorating 30 Years 1976-2007, Part Three 1991-2007, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, May 18-
June 16, 2007, Chicago, IL
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The Blake Byrne Collection, The Nasher Museum of Contemporary Art, Duke University, April
19-September 30, Durham, North Carolina,
Crossing the Line: African American Artists in the Jacqueline Bradley and Clarence Otis, Jr.
Collection, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, January 19-May 20, Orlando, FL,
2006 Black Alphabet – contexts of contemporary African-American art, Zacheta National Gallery of
Art, September 23–November 19, Warsaw, Poland
Hangar–7 Edition 4, Salzburg Airport, July 8–August 25, Salzburg, Austria
Down By Law, Wrong Gallery at the Sondra Gilman Gallery, Whitney Museum, January 21 - May
15, New York, NY
Redifined: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, DC

AWARDS & HONORS
2008 Americans for the Arts, Young Artist Award for Artistic Excellence
2002 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant Recipient

LECTURES/SYMPOSIA
2009 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Artpace, San Antonio, TX
2008 Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2007 Here and Now: African and African American Art and Film Conference, New York, NY
Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Chapel Hill, NC
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheyboygan, WI
2006 Symposium on Contemporary Portraiture, Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery, DC
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH

Review:
http://www.kehindewiley.com/press/2009/wsj.html

Artist Website:
http://www.kehindewiley.com

Gallery:
http://www.deitch.com/index.php