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Kehinde Wiley

@kehindewiley

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Los Angeles, United States
28. February

Kehinde Wiley is an American portrait painter based in New York City, who is known for his highly naturalistic paintings of African Americans. He was commissioned in 2017 to paint a portrait of former President Barack Obama for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, which has portraits of all the U.S. presidents.

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License Notice: U.S. Department of State, Kehinde Wiley (2015) (cropped), marked as public domain, more details on Wikimedia Commons