Wiley is is a Nigerian-American portrait painter based in New York City. Having studied first in the San Francisco Art Institute and later at Yale University’s School of Art, he was trained in different mediums. But the one thing that bothered him was that the great masters that inspired him belonged to a different world, where art was reserved for the rich and powerful.

So he set out to correct that. He started using his skills to create his own classical masterpiece, but instead of painting the kings and queens of 19^th century Europe, he chose people from his own life and community as subjects. He used traditional painting techniques to make his friends and family look like royalty.

His breakthrough came in 2017, when he was commissioned to paint Barak Obama’s official White House portrait. Today, that portrait hangs in the White House, together with paintings of Washington and Roosevelt. Wiley has since toured the world to paint people from different cultures and backgrounds with the same magnificence of royal portraits.  

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Aurélia  Durand is a young illustrator from France who brings people of color to the center of attention in her illustrations. She says that she wants to show the diversity and the nuances that exist within our society. Aurélia  was born in France and raised in a suburb of Paris. She lived in Denmark for five years while studying at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Copenhagen.  

Her father is from France and her mother is from the Ivory Coast, so growing up in a multicultural environment has made a huge impact in the way she sees the world. She sees the stories that are worth sharing in the life of every human being and her goal as an artist is to contribute to the anti-racist movement, as well as communicate joyful messages that celebrate uniqueness with her audience.  

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Wiley is is a Nigerian-American portrait painter based in New York City. Having studied first in the San Francisco Art Institute and later at Yale University’s School of Art, he was trained in different mediums. But the one thing that bothered him was that the great masters that inspired him belonged to a different world, where art was reserved for the rich and powerful.

So he set out to correct that. He started using his skills to create his own classical masterpiece, but instead of painting the kings and queens of 19^th century Europe, he chose people from his own life and community as subjects. He used traditional painting techniques to make his friends and family look like royalty.

His breakthrough came in 2017, when he was commissioned to paint Barak Obama’s official White House portrait. Today, that portrait hangs in the White House, together with paintings of Washington and Roosevelt. Wiley has since toured the world to paint people from different cultures and backgrounds with the same magnificence of royal portraits.  

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Aurélia  Durand is a young illustrator from France who brings people of color to the center of attention in her illustrations. She says that she wants to show the diversity and the nuances that exist within our society. Aurélia  was born in France and raised in a suburb of Paris. She lived in Denmark for five years while studying at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Copenhagen.  

Her father is from France and her mother is from the Ivory Coast, so growing up in a multicultural environment has made a huge impact in the way she sees the world. She sees the stories that are worth sharing in the life of every human being and her goal as an artist is to contribute to the anti-racist movement, as well as communicate joyful messages that celebrate uniqueness with her audience.  

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