Kehinde Wiley

Page 1 | Biography

Born: 1977, Los Angeles, CA
Lives: New York and Beijing

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


Solo Exhibitions
2011 �The World Stage: Israel� Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA, catalogue
2010 �The World Stage: India-Sri Lanka� Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL, catalogue
2009 �The World Stage: Brazil� Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA, catalogue
�The World Stage: Africa, Lagos-Dakar� Artpace, San Antonio, TX, catalogue
2008 �The World Stage: Africa, Lagos-Dakar� The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY,
catalogue
�Down� Deitch Projects, New York, NY
�Focus: Kehinde Wiley� Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
2007 �Kehinde Wiley� Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
�The World Stage�China� John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Milwaukee, WI, catalogue
2006 �Scenic� Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
�Columbus� Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, catalogue
�Columbus� Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA, catalogue
�Kehinde Wiley� Sorry, We�re Closed, Brussels, Belgium
2005 �Rumors of War� Deitch Projects, New York, NY
�White� Conner Contemporary, Washington, D.C.
�Bound - Kehinde Wiley Paintings� Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis, MN
2004 �Passing/Posing The Paintings of Kehinde Wiley� The Brooklyn Museum of Art,
Brooklyn, NY, catalogue
�Easter Realness� Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 �Faux/Real� Deitch Projects, New York, NY
�Pictures at an Exhibition� Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA


Group Exhibitions
2011 �30 Americans: Rubell Family Collection� Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., catalogue
2010 �Pattern ID� Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH, catalogue
�Wild Thing� Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA
�Individual to Icon: Portraits of the Famous and Almost Famous from Folk Art to Facebook�
Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND, catalogue
�The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place� 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London, England
�Searching for the Heart of Black Identity: Art and the Contemporary African American
Experience� Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY
�The Gleaners: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Sarah and Jim Taylor� Victoria H.
Myhren Gallery, Denver, CO
�From Then to Now: Masterworks Contemporary African American Art� Curated by Margo Ann
Crutchfield, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
2009 �Reconfiguring the Body in American Art, 1820-2009� National Academy Museum, New York,
NY �Creating Identity: Portraits Today� 21C Museum, Louisville, KY
�Other People: Portraits from Grunwald and Hammer Collections� Curated by Cindy Burlingham
and Gary Garrels, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2008 �30 Americans� Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, catalogue
�Macrocosm� Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA
"21: Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum" The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
�RECOGNIZE! Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture� Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait
Gallery, Washington, D.C
�Selected Drawings� Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
�Down� Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, Detroit, MI
2007 �New York States of Mind� Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
�Crossing the Line: African American Artists in the Jacqueline Bradley and Clarence Otis Jr.
Collection� Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Orlando, FL
�Commemorating 30 Years (1976 � 2007): Part Three (1991 � 2007)� Rhona Hoffman Gallery,
Chicago, IL
�The Blake Byrne Collection� The Nasher Museum of Contemporary Art, Duke University,
Durham, NC
2006 �Do Not Stack� Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
�Black Alphabet: ConTEXTS of Contemporary African-American Art� Zacheta, National Gallery of
Art, Warsaw, Poland
�Down By Law� Wrong Gallery at the Sondra Gilman Gallery, Whitney Museum, New York, NY
�Hangar�7 Edition 4� Salzburg Airport, Salzburg, Austria
�Redefined: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Collection� Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C.
�Relics and Remnants� Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Jamaica, NY
2005 �Maximum Flavor� ACA Gallery, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA
�Neo-Baroque� Tema Celeste, Verona, Italy
�Neovernacular� Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
�Kehinde Wiley/Sabeen Raja: New Paintings� Conner Contemporary Art, Washington, D.C.
2004 �Eye of the Needle� Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
�Glory, Glamour & Gold� The Proposition, New York, NY
�She�s Come Undone� Greenberg Van Doren, New York, NY
�The New York Mets and Our National Pastime� Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
�Beauty� Kravets + Wehby, New York, NY
�African American Artists in Los Angeles, A Survey Exhibition: Fade� City of Los Angeles
Cultural Affairs Department, Los Angeles, CA
2003 �Peripheries Become the Center� Prague Biennale 1, Galleria Nazionale Veletrzni Palac
Dukelskych Hrdinu 47, Prague, Czech Republic
�Superreal� Marella, Milan, Italy
�New Wave� Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
�Re: Figure� College of DuPage, The Guhlberg Gallery, Glen Ellyn, IL
2002 �Painting as Paradox� Artists Space, New York, NY
�Mass Appeal� Gallery 101, Ottawa, Canada
�Ironic/ Iconic� The Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY
�Black Romantic� The Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY
2001 �It�s Bigger Than Hip Hop� Rush Arts, New York, NY