Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic - Hardcover

by Eugenie Tsai (Editor), Connie H. Choi (Author), Insoo Cho (Contribution by)

Filled with reproductions of Kehinde Wiley's bold, colorful, and monumental work, this book encompasses the artist's various series of paintings as well as his sculptural work--which boldly explore ideas about race, power, and tradition. Accompanying the illustrations are essays that introduce readers to the arc of Wiley's career, its critical reception, and ongoing evolution.

Author Biography

Eugenie Tsai (Editor) is the John and Barbara Vogelstein Curator of Contemporary Art, and Managing Curator, Contemporary Art, at the Brooklyn Museum. She joined the Museum in 2007 and since then has organized such exhibitions as Lee Mingwei: "The Moving Garden" (2011); Sanford Biggers: Sweet Funk--An Introspective (2011); the Raw/Cooked series, devoted to emerging Brooklyn artists (2011‒13), and Crossing Brooklyn: Art from Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, and Beyond (2014). Previously she was Director of Curatorial Affairs at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens, New York. She has also been Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Independently, she organized Robert Smithson, which received the International Association of Art Critics' first place award for the best monographic exhibition of 2005. Dr. Tsai received a B.A. from Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.