MEMLING
These eight portraits take their poses and contexts from the works by the legendary 15th century Flemish master Hans Memling but Wiley has substituted contemporary sitters for the historical figures....
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The exhibition features Jamaican men and women assuming poses taken from 17th and 18th Century British portraiture, the first one in the ‘World Stage’ series to feature portraits of women. The...
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These intimately scaled portraits use the visual language and gestures of 15th century icons to depict contemporary subjects selected by Wiley from the streets of New York City. The portraits are...
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The World Stage: Haiti is the latest chapter in Kehinde Wiley’s global survey of countries and their respective cultures. As with previous installments of The World Stage, Wiley examines a nation’s...
View ArticleSTAINED GLASS
This body of work comprises pieces based on stained glass windows and studies by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French, 1780-1867). Produced by artisan stained glass manufacturers in the Czech...
View ArticleA NEW REPUBLIC
The works presented in Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic raise questions about race, gender, and the politics of representation by portraying contemporary African American men and women using the...
View ArticleLamentation
The exhibition features a previously unseen series of ten monumental works, in the form of stained glass windows and paintings, showcased at the heart of the museum’s permanent collections. Kehinde...
View ArticleTrickster
Trickster, an exhibition of monumental new paintings by Kehinde Wiley. A departure from Wiley’s practice of painting anonymous sitters, these portraits include a select group of extraordinary...
View ArticleIn Search of the Miraculous
Presenting nine new paintings and his first three-channel artist film, Wiley interweaves the canon of art history with present day politics to investigate key subjects of migration, madness and...
View ArticleSaint Louis
Saint Louis, an exhibition that is deeply connected to St. Louis and informed by visits Wiley made in 2017. Through a process of street casting, he invited strangers he met in neighborhoods in north...
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