Barack and Michelle Obama have chosen up-and-coming artists Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, respectively, to paint their official portraits, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery announced.

The two paintings will be unveiled in early 2018 and added to the museum’s permanent collection of presidential and first lady portraits. Currently, a diptych of the former president by Chuck Close is on view in the “America’s Presidents” exhibit and will remain until the official portrait is ready.

Wiley, a New York-based artist, is known for his lush, realistic portraits of black subjects, including LL Cool J and Ice T, in street clothes with poses and backgrounds culled from Western art history to “collate modern culture with the influence of Old Masters,” per his artist statement.

He has previously spoken about the impact of a black president. In 2012, Wiley told BBC that “Obama stands as a signal that this nation will continue to redefine what it means to push beyond the borders of what’s possible.”

And he’s certainly considered how he would paint the first black president. Wiley told the outlet that “I think it would be really interesting to paint Obama. I’ve done several studies in the past, I’ve sort of worked out different strategies about how that would be, but it’s a very curious possibility. We’ll see where that goes.”

Sherald, of Baltimore, will paint the former first lady. She won the top prize at the Portrait Gallery’s 2016 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, which includes creating a portrait of a living person for the permanent collection.

She uses a gray-scale in her life-sized oil paintings of African American people. “Her use of gray skin tone was something we’d never seen before. The paintings’ surfaces look flat, but the closer you get, the more dynamic they become,” Dorothy Moss, associate curator of painting and sculpture at the National Portrait Gallery, told The Baltimore Sun in 2016.

The portraits at the Chinatown gallery are one of two pairs made for former presidents and first ladies—the other set resides at the White House, which is not as publicly accessible.

The Portrait Gallery says it is still raising private funds to pay for the commissioned portraits and the associated unveiling event, educational programs, and enhanced website.

“The Portrait Gallery is absolutely delighted that Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald have agreed to create the official portraits of our former President and First Lady,” said Kim Sajet, director of the National Portrait Gallery. “Both have achieved enormous success as artists, but even more, they make art that reflects the power and potential of portraiture in the 21st century.”

Wiley and Sherald are the first black artists commissioned by the Smithsonian to paint a president and first lady, according to the Wall Street Journal.