Barack Obama, America’s resident Cool Dad, has just announced his selection of Kehinde Wiley as the artist to paint his official presidential portrait that will hang in the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Wiley, who is represented by Sean Kelly gallery in New York, had a solo show at the Brooklyn Museum in 2015, and his work has fetched as much as $143,000 at auction, according to the Artnet Price Database. Wiley is known for his portraiture work that places black men and women in contemporary Baroque paintings, depicting them in a manner that historically was reserved only for European white noblemen. His disruptive work applies the familiar tropes of Baroque paintings—glorification, wealth, and prestige—to contemporary urban culture, blending the old with the new. He has painted the likes of Notorious B.I.G., Michael Jackson, LL Cool J, Grandmaster Flash, and soon, Barack Obama.

In 2008, Wiley told the BBC that he would “love” to paint Obama’s official portrait. “The reality of Barack Obama being the president of the United States—quite possibly the most powerful nation in the world—means that the image of power is completely new for an entire generation of not only black American kids, but every population group in this nation,” he said.

Former first lady Michelle Obama has announced her choice too, selecting Baltimore native Amy Sherald to paint her portrait. Sherald is represented by Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago, and her work is currently featured in a show at the Studio Museum in Harlem. She won the National Portrait Gallery’s portrait competition in 2016 for her work that features everyday black women, their skin painted in greyish tones, juxtaposed against bright, vivid backgrounds.

Wiley and Sherald will be the first black artists to paint the presidential and first-lady portraits, a choice surely intentional by the America’s former first family. “Both [painters] have achieved enormous success as artists, but even more, they make art that reflects the power and potential of portraiture in the 21st century,” said Kim Sajet, director of the National Portrait Gallery, in a statement.

The paintings will be unveiled at Washington’s Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in 2018.