Kehinde Wiley paintings fall into an interesting category called Identity Politics. It's a form that focuses on race, gender, and sexuality. As Wiley grew his career as a lower class, queer man, it become extremely important to him that Black people, especially Black men.
Which is the main subject of most of his paintings. His paintings include different abstract forms that are quite different but beautiful. One of his most well known pieces of work would be his 2017 portrait of Barack Obama. This painting is in the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery America's Presidents exhibition. The portrait portrays Obama sitting on a wooden chair that holds an almost floating effect with a green leaved foliage background that consists of chrysanthemum, jasmine, and African blue lilies. Obama can be seen wearing a dark blue suit and a white collared shirt. His arms are crossed with his elbows resting on his knee and his wedding ring facing the viewer's eye. It's a beautifully done portrait that I'm sure Kehinde Wiley had the great honor of doing. This painting I would say is the most memorable, but he does have many other works such as Napoleon Leading the Army Over the Alps, Randerson Romualdo Cordeiro, Judith Beheading Holofernes, and many others. This is a link to more of his artwork as well as more on his life. https://www.theartstory.org/artist/wiley-kehinde/
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