Kehinde Wiley was born in Los Angeles in 1977, grew up in South Central—where he was steeped in the hip-hip and low-rider culture along Crenshaw Boulevard—and was selected at age 17 to participate in the Metro Young Artists program. Best known for his portraits that render people of color in the traditional settings of Old Master paintings, he works in the mediums of painting, sculpture and video to bring art history face-to-face with contemporary culture and celebrate Black and brown people he has met throughout the world.
