Introducing Art x Platinum
Designs curated for your private collection
Platinum x Kehinde Wiley
Classic Platinum Card®
Platinum x Julie Mehretu
The iconic Platinum Card® from American Express has been reimagined through the lens of world-renowned artists Kehinde Wiley and Julie Mehretu. Choose the Art x Platinum design that speaks to you.
Enjoy the Benefits of the Platinum Card Today
When you apply for the Platinum Card, you’ll have the option to select your preferred design: classic Platinum, Platinum x Kehinde Wiley, or Platinum x Julie Mehretu. If approved, you will receive the Card design of your choice.
Already Have a Platinum Card?
Make your Platinum Card a work of art. Choose your preferred Art x Platinum design and we’ll ship out your new Card. Your Card number will remain the same and you can continue using your current Platinum Card until you receive and activate your new Card. If you prefer the classic Platinum design, keep using your Card and no further action is required.
Get to Know the Artists
Kehinde Wiley is one of the great portrait painters of our time. He engages the signs and visual rhetoric of the heroic, powerful, majestic and the sublime in his representation of diverse individuals throughout the world. He has enjoyed a steady stream of prestigious commissions and accolades – most recently, knighted by the government of France for his “major contribution to the arts.”
Wiley’s art is profound and beautiful – best known for his updates of classic Western European portraits, where he substitutes kings and queens with protagonists as diverse as the entire world. His distinctive, vibrant botanicals also invade these compositions with rays of light and color that speak to the present.
Platinum x Kehinde Wiley brings these botanicals directly onto the Platinum Card, wonderfully capturing the essence of Wiley’s profound energy and worldview.
Julie Mehretu is regarded as one of the great artists of our (or any) time – situated alongside the likes of Jackson Pollack, Mark Rothko, Romare Bearden, and Picasso. Beyond the sheer aesthetic beauty, her body of work often speaks of migration, architecture, displacement, identity, and history. But it also advances concepts that are fundamental to art itself: line, color, composition, and notions of abstract beauty.
One thing is clear: the art of Julie Mehretu is a cosmos unto itself – unintelligible, yet full of meaning; replete with both contradiction and truth; challenging, yet also lyrical, effervescent, and arrestingly beautiful. Her visions are talismanic and profound, and she is living proof that art can indeed change the way we see the world.
Platinum x Julie Mehretu evokes the abstract modernity for which she is known and brings her signature style to the Platinum Card.
Frequently Asked Questions
The new Art x Platinum designs are an exciting artistic collaboration between American Express and two of the most celebrated artists of our time – Kehinde Wiley and Julie Mehretu – and allows us to provide you with a choice of three card designs.
The new Art x Platinum designs are an exciting artistic collaboration between American Express and two of the most celebrated artists of our time – Kehinde Wiley and Julie Mehretu – and allows us to provide you with a choice of three card designs.
The new Art x Platinum designs will be available for selection for eligible Platinum Card® Members beginning on January 20, 2022. If you select an Art x Platinum design, your Card number will remain the same and you can continue using your current Card until you have received your new Card.
The new Art x Platinum designs will be available for selection for eligible Platinum Card® Members beginning on January 20, 2022. If you select an Art x Platinum design, your Card number will remain the same and you can continue using your current Card until you have received your new Card.
Platinum Card® Members and Additional Platinum Card® Members may select one of the Art x Platinum designs.
Holders of the following Cards are not currently eligible: Business Platinum Card®, The Platinum Card® from American Express exclusively for Morgan Stanley, The Platinum Card® from American Express for Charles Schwab and The Platinum Card® from American Express for Goldman Sachs
Platinum Card® Members and Additional Platinum Card® Members may select one of the Art x Platinum designs.
Holders of the following Cards are not currently eligible: Business Platinum Card®, The Platinum Card® from American Express exclusively for Morgan Stanley, The Platinum Card® from American Express for Charles Schwab and The Platinum Card® from American Express for Goldman Sachs
Getting a new Art x Platinum design is easy. Beginning on January 20, 2022, you can make your selection by logging into your online American Express account or by calling the number on the back of your Card, and we’ll ship out your selected replacement Card.
Getting a new Art x Platinum design is easy. Beginning on January 20, 2022, you can make your selection by logging into your online American Express account or by calling the number on the back of your Card, and we’ll ship out your selected replacement Card.
Yes, Additional Platinum Card® Members are also eligible to select the Card design that suits their style by logging into their online American Express account or by calling the number on the back of their Card.
Yes, Additional Platinum Card® Members are also eligible to select the Card design that suits their style by logging into their online American Express account or by calling the number on the back of their Card.
No, there is currently no time limitation on the Art x Platinum designs.
No, there is currently no time limitation on the Art x Platinum designs.
Yes, if the classic Platinum Card® is your preference, you can keep the Card you have. You do not need to make a selection.
Yes, if the classic Platinum Card® is your preference, you can keep the Card you have. You do not need to make a selection.
Yes, after January 20, 2022 you can change your Card to whichever Art x Platinum design speaks to you.
Yes, after January 20, 2022 you can change your Card to whichever Art x Platinum design speaks to you.
Only one Card can be activated for use by an individual Card Member. Once you activate your newly requested Card, your old Card will no longer be available for use.
Only one Card can be activated for use by an individual Card Member. Once you activate your newly requested Card, your old Card will no longer be available for use.
No, Cards with Art x Platinum designs and the classic Platinum Card® have the same benefits.
No, Cards with Art x Platinum designs and the classic Platinum Card® have the same benefits.
Julie Mehretu's Photo: © Josefina Santos