The Shifting Perspective in Kehinde Wiley's Portrait of Barack Obama

Wiley’s best works seem haunted by a quiet uncertainty: Are these depictions of black people crashing the party of power ironic, or meant to reflect some real and hoped-for future?
Vinson Cunningham reviews Kehinde Wiley’s portrait of Barack Obama for the Smithsonian.

Artist Kehinde Wiley: 'The new work is about what it feels like to be young, Black and alive in the 21st century', Painting

Michelle Obama The New Yorker

Barack obama – Artofit

Kehinde Wiley - 藝術家- Sean Kelly Gallery

Five years after his Obama portrait, Kehinde Wiley is taking his art everywhere all at once

Kehinde Wiley - Exhibitions - Roberts Projects LA

Kehinde Wiley - 藝術家- Sean Kelly Gallery

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Meet Kehinde Wiley, artist behind Barack Obama's presidential portrait