🎨 Kyle Lucks: Painting Icons, The Pressure of Perfection, and Why He Hasn’t Painted Taylor Swift (Yet)

He’s painted everyone from Serena Williams and Jackie Kennedy, to Coco Gauff and Rick Ross. His art work hangs in sports arenas, private collections, and stadiums all over the world. And this year, Kyle Lucks has became the artist everyone’s watching.

In this episode of In The Hype Seat, Holly sits down with celebrity portrait artist Kyle Lucks for a hilarious, candid, and behind-the-scenes look at what it really takes to paint cultural icons everyone knows—and get it exactly right. From commissioned portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Donald Trump to a Billie Jean King trophy reflection moment that broke the internet, Kyle opens up about the high-stakes pressure of his craft and why he only paints stories that give him goosebumps.