Kehinde Wiley news

Two works by Kehinde Wiley have been installed at Barnard College, New York in the reception of Milbank Hall. The large-scale, oil-on-canvas paintings, “Portrait of Dorinda Essah” and “Portrait of Savannah Essah,” are part of a series of six paintings from the William Morris Gallery exhibit “Kehinde Wiley: The Yellow Wallpaper,” The paintings are on long-term loan to the College.

Public Art Fund was invited by Empire State Development to develop and direct a program of ambitious art installations for three prominent sites within the new Moynihan Train Hall, to be launched in January 2021. These very different commissions, by Stan Douglas, Elmgreen & Dragset, and Kehinde Wiley, demonstrate each artist’s ingenuity and vision.

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts marks one year since the 2019 unveiling of Kehinde Wiley’s ‘Rumors of War’, presenting both outdoor and virtual events to "pay tribute to the sculpture’s power, beauty, and prophetic relevance". 

Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg debuts its renovated collection galleries to the public on Tuesday 27 October. Included in this new presentation of the Museum's permanent collection is Kehinde Wiley's 'Leviathan Zodiac (The World Stage: Israel)', 2011 from the artist's celebrated series, 'The World Stage: Israel' which the Museum acquired in 2019. 

Presented in the historic location of medieval hospital Sint-Janshospitaal, this unique group show explores the legacy of fifteenth-century painter Hans Memling. The exhibition includes a series of intimate portraits by Kehinde Wiley, inspired by the legendary Flemish artist. 

Black Rock Senegal artist residency application cycle for Year 2 is open between 5–31 August 2020 to artists of all mediums and all nationalities. 

African-American artist Kehinde Wiley participated in an online conversation with the Duke of Devonshire and Sotheby's Chairman Oliver Barker as part of Sotheby's' '500 Years of Art: Summer Talks'.

'Kehinde Wiley: Painter of the Epic' at Centre d'art La Malmaison, Cannes is the first major survey of the African-American artist's work in France. Curated by Numa Hambursin, the exhibition brings together almost thirty works to demonstrate the complex visual vocabulary that has guided Wiley's practice for over a decade. 

Black Rock Senegal is partnering with Dr. Abdou Karim Diop, director of Centre de Santé Philippe Senghor Yoff and head of the West Health District of Dakar, and with the Association des Femmes de la Cité Biagui et Toundourya (AFBET) for the donation of 700 masks to combat the spread of COVID-19 in Senegal.

Featuring 90 contemporary artworks by 35 renowned American artists, 'The World Stage' showcases some of today’s global influencers alongside prominent names from the 20th-century art canon. The exhibition title is borrowed from a celebrated series of paintings by African-American artist Kehinde Wiley.

Black artists explore spirituality and culture in 'Afrocosmologies: American Reflections'. Alongside artists of the late-nineteenth century, contemporary artists define new ideas about spirituality, identity, and the environment in ways that move beyond...

Jacques-Louis David's celebrated 19th-century portrait of Napoleon on horseback is shown alongside Kehinde Wiley's dramatic homage to the painting for the first time this autumn. Both works go on display at Château...

On Friday 27 September, Kehinde Wiley unveiled a monumental public sculpture in Times Square, New York on the Broadway Plaza between 46th and 47th Streets. Following its presentation in Times Square, 'Rumors...

'Get Up, Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers' is a major new exhibition curated by Zak Ové that celebrates Black creativity from the post-war era to the present day. Bringing...

Stephen Friedman Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Kehinde Wiley's multi-disciplinary artist-in-residency program, Black Rock Senegal. Black Rock Senegal came out of a direct need to engage Africa in a...

‘Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem’ is a partnership between The Studio Museum in Harlem and The American Federation of Arts (AFA).

Artist Kehinde Wiley joins us to discuss his artistic practice, his new show at the St. Louis Art Museum titled, Kehinde Wiley: Saint Louis, and his having recently received Harvard's W.E.B. Du...

Stephen Friedman Gallery is delighted to announce that The Contemporary Art Society Collections Fund at Frieze has acquired a major film by Kehinde Wiley for The Box, Plymouth. This new museum and...

The works presented in Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic raise questions about race, gender, and the politics of representation by portraying contemporary African American men and women using the conventions of traditional...