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2008 National Arts Awards
Young Artist Award for Artistic Excellence
artsusa.org/news/annual_awards/naa/2008/004.asp

Los Angeles native and New York-based visual artist Kehinde Wiley has firmly situated himself within art history's portrait painting tradition. As a contemporary descendant of a long line of portraitists, Mr. Wiley engages the signs and visual rhetoric of the heroic, powerful, majestic, and the sublime in his representation of urban black and brown men found throughout the world.

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