I was surrounded by art by virtue of not only the educational opportunities that my mother's foresight availed me to. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I was 12 in 1989 during perestroika, when my mother found a program that sent me to Russia to study art in… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
My mother introduced to me as a child the world of language: the way in which translation can be a system by… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
My mother's from Texas. Small town outside of Waco called Downsville. And my father's from Nigeria. And so I guess I'm properly… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I went back to my mother's house recently and I saw some of my earlier works as a 15-year-old art student. And… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
My mother sent me to art classes at the age of 11. I began to have kids around me say, 'Will you… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I grew up in South Central Los Angeles in the '80s, back when it just wasn't a cool scene. But my mother… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
At age 20 I went to go find my father in Nigeria. And after much toil, I finally figured out exactly where… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Just physically, if you looked at the house that I grew up in, my mother created this greenhouse. And surrounded the entire… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
My father is Nigerian; my mother is from Texas and African-American. My father was the first in his family to go to… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
During 1989, my mother, who was exceedingly good at finding these free programs - you know, we were on welfare, just trying… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into bite-sized pieces,… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The erotic and the art historical imagination is something that gets very little play when people talk about my work, and when they rarely… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
One of the weirdest things that happened to artists and art criticism was this moment when everyone got cynical and stopped believing in the… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
At its best, what art does is, it points to who we as human beings and what we as human beings value. And if… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
My style is in the 21st century. If you look at the process, it goes from photography through Photoshop, where certain features are heightened,… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think the world that I grew up in was like being in this sort of magical artistic garden. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
It was something that came sort of matter-of-factually. Because there - it's like really - real honest engagement with the people around me and… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
We're wired to be empathetic and to care about the needs of others, but also to be curious about others. And I think that's… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Painting is situational. And my particular situation exists within gender, race, class, sexuality, nation. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think, something that you might be able to locate in the work that I'm creating today: the ability to look at a black… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I remember the first time I went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and saw a Kerry James Marshall painting with black… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
