Kehinde Wiley is an American portrait painter from New York City who paints realistic pictures of Black people.
About Kehinde Wiley
His style often references the techniques of Old Master paintings. In 2017 he was chosen to paint former President Barack Obama’s portrait for the National Portrait Gallery.
![“I think one of the things that I took from Mel [Bochner] specifically was his ability to look at oneself and one's relationship to the history of art and the practice of art at arm's length, the ability to sort of clinically and coldly remove oneself from the picture and to see it simply as a set…” quote by Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d03/kehinde-wiley-1194_ability_i-think-one-of-the-things-that-i-took-fr_1847799.jpg)
