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Kehinde Wiley

Museum Exhibition Catalogues, Monographs, Artist's Projects, Curatorial Writings and Essays


Kehinde Wiley was born in Los Angeles, CA in 1977, and received his MFA from the Yale University, School of Art in New Haven, CT in 2001. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Walker Art Center, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. The artist currently lives and works in New York City, and exhibits with Deitch Projects in New York, Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago, and Roberts & Tilton in Los Angeles.

       

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Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence

DELMONICO BOOKS/FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO
Edited by Claudia Schmuckli.

“That is the archaeology I am unearthing: the specter of police violence and state control over the bodies of young Black and brown people all over the world.” –Kehinde Wiley

Hbk, 9.5 x 10 in. / 192 pgs / 130 color. | 10/17/2023 | Out of stock
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Kehinde Wiley: A Portrait of a Young Gentleman

THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY, ART MUSEUM, AND BOTANICAL GARDENS
Edited with text by Melinda McCurdy. Text by Malik Gaines, Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell.

Presenting Kehinde Wiley’s hotly anticipated response to a legendary Gainsborough portrait

Hbk, 7.5 x 9.5 in. / 72 pgs / 25 color. | 3/22/2022 | In stock
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Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage: Haiti

ROBERTS & TILTON
Text by M. Cynthia Oliver, Mike Rogge.

Hbk, 8.75 x 11.5 in. / 64 pgs / 40 color. | 5/26/2015 | Out of stock
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Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage: Israel

ROBERTS & TILTON
Text by Ruth Eglash, Claudia J. Nahson. Interview by Dr. Shalva Weil.

The latest installment in Wiley’s series imposing the language of old master portraiture onto the ethnicities and ethnic iconography most excluded from Western art

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Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of SilenceKehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence

Published by DelMonico Books/Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Edited by Claudia Schmuckli.

Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence features a new body of paintings and sculptures by American artist Kehinde Wiley confronting the legacies of colonialism through the visual language of the fallen figure. It expands on a subject the artist first explored in his 2008 series Down—a group of large-scale portraits of young Black men inspired by Wiley’s encounter with Hans Holbein the Younger’s The Dead Christ in the Tomb (1521–22) at the Kunstmuseum Basel. Holbein’s painting triggered an ongoing investigation into the iconography of death and sacrifice in Western art that Wiley traced across religious, mythological and historical subjects. An Archaeology of Silence extends these considerations to include men and women around the world whose senseless deaths, often unacknowledged or silenced, are transformed into a powerful elegy of global resistance against state-sanctioned violence. The resulting paintings of Black bodies struck down, wounded or dead, all referencing iconic historical paintings of slain heroes, martyrs or saints, offer a haunting meditation on the violence against Black and brown bodies through the lens of European art history.
Kehinde Wiley (born 1977) is a world-renowned visual artist. Working in the mediums of painting, sculpture and video, Wiley is best known for his vibrant portrayals of contemporary African American and African-diasporic individuals that subvert the hierarchies and conventions of European and American portraiture. Wiley became the first African American artist to paint an official US Presidential portrait for former US President Barack Obama. Wiley has held solo exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally, and his works are included in the collections of over 40 public institutions worldwide. He lives and works in Beijing, Dakar and New York.



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Kehinde Wiley: A Portrait of a Young GentlemanKehinde Wiley: A Portrait of a Young Gentleman

Published by The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
Edited with text by Melinda McCurdy. Text by Malik Gaines, Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell.

This volume presents A Portrait of a Young Gentleman, a new portrait by Kehinde Wiley (born 1977), commissioned to mark the centennial of the acquisition of Blue Boy by Henry and Arabella Huntington. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens places Wiley's painting in conversation with Thomas Gainsborough's 18th-century masterpiece. A deep connection exists between the museum’s most famous painting and the artist who is known for creating one of the most beloved presidential portraits of our time. A native of Los Angeles, Wiley has often spoken about his childhood visits to the Huntington’s British portrait gallery and how they inspired him to become an artist.
Richly illustrated with portraits by Wiley and by 18th-century masters such as Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Hudson, this book offers insight into the evolving history of portraiture and the representation of power. An essay by Malik Gaines, Associate Professor of Performance Studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, investigates Wiley’s postmodern strategy of inserting Black subjects into canonical European settings. An essay by fashion historian Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell situates Wiley’s work within the traditions and trappings of 18th-century grand manner portraiture.



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Catalog: SPRING 2022 p. 109   

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Kehinde Wiley: Saint LouisKehinde Wiley: Saint Louis

Published by Roberts Projects.
Text by Simon Kelly, Hannah Klemm.

Published for the artist's solo exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum, this new series of paintings by Brooklyn-based painter Kehinde Wiley (born 1977) reenvisions the museum's holdings as a starting point for succinct observations about representation throughout the history of art. Through a process of street casting starting in 2017, Wiley invited residents he met in the neighborhoods of north St. Louis and Ferguson to pose for his paintings. The artist then created portrait paintings inspired by carefully chosen artworks in the museum's permanent collection. Wiley specifically chose Ferguson, Missouri, after the city became a flashpoint for nationwide protests touching on much larger issues of race, injustice and police violence. This catalog features 11 new paintings by Kehinde Wiley and essays by Simon Kelly, Curator and Head of Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at Saint Louis Art Museum, and Hannah Klemm, Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Saint Louis Art Museum.



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Hardcover, 10 x 13 in. / 60 pgs / 40 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2019 p. 115   

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Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage: HaitiKehinde Wiley: The World Stage: Haiti

Published by Roberts & Tilton.
Text by M. Cynthia Oliver, Mike Rogge.

The latest in the World Stage series of portraits by Kehinde Wiley (born 1977), this volume presents 13 new paintings, the result of the artist's trip to Haiti—a nation that is often presented as a place of chronic poverty, corruption and deprivation. In Haiti Wiley actively went looking for beauty, staging pageants to cast his portrait subjects and advertising with open calls on the radio and posters put up in the streets of Jacmel, Jalouise and Port-au-Prince. Wiley worked within the tradition of pageant culture native to the Caribbean but also subverted it, choosing his winners at random. The paintings draw on the artistic traditions of France and Spain (the colonial rulers of Haiti before the Haitian Revolution), as well as Haiti's varied religious traditions and local crafts, creating a composite portrait of contemporary Haiti through its people, history and culture.

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Catalog: SPRING 2015 p. 134   

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Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage: France 1880-1960Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage: France 1880-1960

Published by Galerie Daniel Templon.
Interview by Jérôme Sans.

Brooklyn-based painter Kehinde Wiley's acclaimed World Stage series inserts into the language of old master portraiture the very ethnicities and ethnic iconography that Western art has most excluded from it, or that Western art has portrayed solely in colonial terms. Among the countries and continents the American artist--currently the subject of a major exhibition traveling to Brooklyn, Fort Worth, Toledo, Seattle and Richmond--has previously depicted in this ambitious epic are Brazil, Jamaica, Haiti, Africa, China, India and Sri Lanka. As technically impressive as they are conceptually complex, Wiley's portraits feature young black men in classic heroic poses, destabilizing canonical ideas of white masculinity and power.
For his first exhibition in Europe, Wiley focused on France's history of colonialism, scouring the streets of Morocco, Tunisia, Gabon, the Republic of Congo and Cameroon for men to paint with classic Napoleonic flair. This hardcover volume includes an interview with world-renowned curator Jérôme Sans and 33 lushly colored paintings from Wiley's series, the rococo backgrounds mixed with African street patterns making visible two aspects of France's cultural heritage seldom viewed in tandem.

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Galerie Daniel Templon

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Hardcover, 8.5 x 11 in. / 64 pgs / 33 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2015 p. 128   

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Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage JamaicaKehinde Wiley: The World Stage Jamaica

Published by Stephen Friedman Gallery.
Text by Ekow Eshun.

The painting of New York-based Kehinde Wiley (born 1977) fuses portraiture and pattern, situating modern subjects in traditional heroic poses against richly patterned backgrounds. Despite the multitude of layers, the abundance of allusions both traditional and contemporary, the results are conceptually clear and impressive. In the works reproduced in Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage Jamaica, the artist paints young, urban Jamaican men and women in poses appropriated from colonial-era British portraiture, who are placed against and intertwined with backgrounds from British textile designer William Morris. Wiley thus restages history: the race and gender of the colonial hero have been transformed. The dignified, strong pose refers not only to the conventions of the genre, but also to the symbolism of Jamaican culture and its particular ideals of style and beauty. Within a single frame, Wiley combines a traditional mode of portraiture, the ongoing complexities of colonialism and a proud, unique, modern culture--a narrative of contemporary Jamaica. Alongside full-color illustrations and installation images from Wiley's exhibition at the Stephen Friedman Gallery, an extensive essay from leading British-Ghanaian cultural commentator Ekow Eshun explicates the symbolism at play in Wiley's work.

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Clth, 8.75 x 11.5 in. / 59 pgs / 32 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2014 p. 127   

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Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage, India, Sri LankaKehinde Wiley: The World Stage, India, Sri Lanka

Published by Rhona Hoffman Gallery.
Text by Gayatri Sinha. Interview by Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky).

Kehinde Wiley's acclaimed World Stageseries inserts into the language of old master portraiture the very ethnicities and ethnic iconography that western art has most excluded from it, or that western art has portrayed solely in colonial, Orientalist terms. Among the countries he has previously depicted in this ambitious traveling epic are Brazil, Africa and China. The rhetoric of Wiley's paintings is powerful in its candor, color and its playfulness with constructions of visual meaning, and as Paul Miller (DJ Spooky) also notes, “Wiley's canvas surfaces are a mirror reflection of America's unceasing search for new meanings from the ruins of the Old World of Europe and Africa.” This volume includes a selection of new World Stageportraits, focusing on India (specifically the cities of New Delhi and Mumbai) and Sri Lanka. Text in English and Hindi.

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Clth, 8.5 x 11.25 in. / 40 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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Catalog: FALL 2011 p. 77   

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Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage: IsraelKehinde Wiley: The World Stage: Israel

Published by Roberts & Tilton.
Text by Ruth Eglash, Claudia J. Nahson. Interview by Dr. Shalva Weil.

Kehinde Wiley’s acclaimed World Stage series inserts into the language of old master portraiture the very ethnicities and ethnic iconography that western art has most excluded from it, or that western art has portrayed solely in colonial, Orientalist terms. Among the countries and continents he has previously depicted in this ambitious traveling epic are Brazil, Africa, China, India and Sri Lanka. The rhetoric of Wiley’s paintings is powerful in its compositional candor, color palette and playfulness with constructions of visual meaning; as Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky) notes, “Wiley’s canvas surfaces are a mirror reflection of America’s unceasing search for new meanings from the ruins of the Old World of Europe and Africa.” This volume includes a selection of new World Stage portraits, focusing on contemporary youth from Jewish-Ethiopian-Israeli, Jewish-Israeli and Arab-Israeli communities.

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Catalog: SPRING 2012 p. 77   

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Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage, BrazilKehinde Wiley: The World Stage, Brazil

Published by Roberts & Tilton.
Text by Brian Keith Jackson, Kimberly Cleveland.

This volume includes a selection of 22 new portrait paintings from Kehinde Wiley's multinational World Stage series, which has included Africa, China and India in the past and now moves on to Brazil. Immersing himself in the local culture of Rio de Janeiro, Wiley incorporates the people, history and aesthetic of the city in each of his monumental male portraits. His models, chosen from the favela slums, reflect historically significant public sculptures found within the city. Oversize tropical flowers in full bloom, appropriated from Brazilian textiles, inundate the work with saturated, brightly hued colors suggestive of Brazilian exoticism. Likening African-descended, young Brazilian males to canonical figures from Western art history as well as Brazilian public monuments, Wiley renders masculinity both august and noble. Text in English and Portuguese.

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Catalog: SPRING 2009 p. 77   

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