National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian - R U Hip Hop?

R U Hip Hop?

To celebrate the National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition "RECOGNIZE! Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture" we invite you to share your own hip hop portraits.

To you, what defines a hip hop portrait? Do you have concert photographs depicting hip hop musical stars? Or your own hip hop self-portrait?

Please come explore the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery (8th and F Streets, NW in Washington, DC), on view from February 8 – October 26, 2008.

The exhibition features the work of photographer David Scheinbaum, painter Kehinde Wiley, video artist Jefferson Pinder, graffiti writers Tim Conlon and Dave Hupp, sculptor and installation artist Shinique Smith, and the poet Nikki Giovanni.

And see the National Portrait Gallery’s general Flickr group for photographs contributed by museum visitors.