Usually I bring very attractive women with me to excite interest. I mean, it's a type of, like, strangers-with-candy situation.
Kehinde WileyI was 12 in 1989 during perestroika, when my mother found a program that sent me to Russia to study art in the forests outside of Leningrad.
Kehinde WileyMy mother's from Texas. Small town outside of Waco called Downsville. And my father's from Nigeria. And so I guess I'm properly African-American.
Kehinde WileyA realization and a dissection of the canon gave rise to the work. But there's also a sneaking suspicion of the canon.
Kehinde Wiley