National Portrait Gallery unveils official Obama portraits in a ceremony (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) WASHINGTON, DC — The official portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama joined the ...

The portraits were done by acclaimed African-American artists, Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald. "Pretty sharp!" Barack Obama quipped of his portrait, painted by Kehinde Wiley, an artist best known for ...

This year’s list sees Nigerian-born American painter, Kehinde Wiley, the artist who painted the official portrait of Barack Obama. “Some consider him irreverent; I see an iconoclast,” rapper LL Cool J ...

The groundbreaking portraits of former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama — painted by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, respectively — will go on view at the Brooklyn Museum ...