I think it's really useful to create parameters. The term you use can be forwarded into something more like a grid, a rubric, a system that you apply to all environments, and in so doing you create a situation in which you can locate local color, local differences within new environments.

My assistants generally do all the flowers and all of the decorative work. I concentrate on the figure.

In the end I'm in love with it [Western European easel painting]. And that's where a lot of the influence from the work comes from.

There was no image of the other biological half of myself. And as an artists, as a - as an - as a portraitist, the look of who you are was radically important to me.

I think there's something important in going against the grain, and perhaps finding value in things that aren't necessarily institutionally recognized.

You have to bring books to explain your work.

I think that the Kehinde Wiley brand is something that I'm working towards expanding and to inclusion.