Artists are those people who sit at the intersection between the known and unknown, the rational and irrational, coming to terms with some of the confusing histories we, as artists, deal with.

The performance of black American identity feels very different from actually living in a black body. There's a dissonance between inside and outside.

Many people see my early work simply as portraits of black and brown people. Really, it's an investigation of how we see those people and how they have been perceived over time.

Kehinde Wiley Quotes