Born in Los Angeles, CA, 1977
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
In the 10 years since receiving his Master of Fine Arts from Yale University, Kehinde Wiley has catapulted to the upper echelon of the contemporary art world. His super-realistic paintings of men of color in heroic, majestic, or bucolic settings deliberately reference works by the Old Masters.
Biographical information courtesy of: Corcoran Gallery of Art and Rubell Family Collection