Kehinde Wiley is a contemporary African-American painter ... such as the desire to create painting and destroy painting at once,” the artist has explained. “The desire to look at a black American ...

open image in gallery Kehinde Wiley is the artist behind Barack Obama's official presidential portrait, which is now hanging in the Smithsonian (Getty Images) Chieke, the complaint goes on ...

For a second time, Kehinde ... Black Lives Matter activist and the executive director of social justice non-profit Warriors ...

Famous Black artists have changed the landscape of modern ... Los Angeles-born painter Kehinde Wiley (born 1977) is best known for painting former President Barack Obama’s official U.S ...

A portrait of Alicia Keys by Kehinde Wiley stands at the entrance to the exhibition "Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of ...

Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys” features works of Black art on display until July 13.

Kehinde Wiley is a classically, formally trained artist who is transforming the way African Americans are seen—going against the grain of what the world is accustomed to. Some consider him ...

Kehinde Wiley, the renowned American ... is facing accusations that he sexually assaulted an up-and-coming artist nearly two decades ago. Wiley, however, says the entire thing is made up.