The Best Young Arists

In less than one decade Kehinda Wiley has come to enjoy the kind of art-world acclaim most young artist only dream of. He operates out of three studios one in New York one in Beijing and one in Senegal. His larger than life portraits sell for up to 250,000 dollars and have been bought by major collectors as well as institutions like Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Walker Art Center. He has had nine solo shows and major overviews at the Brooklyn Museum and the Studio Museum in Harlem he reached allot these great achievements before he reached the age of 33.

This is amazing what this young man has done he has changed art forever. Because sometimes when people think of art they think it is too hard to get into and that you have to have a bunch of years under your belt before you become famous. But Mr.Wiley has broken that barrier. He has reached a part of career that some of the older artists will not even come close too.