Artist
Amy Sherald
b. 1973, Columbus, Georgia, USA · American · Based in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
- MFA in Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA, 2004)
- BA, Clark Atlanta University (1997)
- Portraiture
- Oil on Canvas
- Grisaille Skin Tones
- Flat Color Fields
Amy Sherald paints Black Americans in carefully staged portraits that combine grayscale skin with saturated clothing and flat color fields. Her 2018 portrait of Michelle Obama brought broad public attention, but her larger practice is centered on imagined and real sitters presented with calm, self-possessed directness.
Painting
Gallery Representation
Artist Films
Amy Sherald in “Everyday Icons” - Season 11 - "Art in the Twenty-First Century" | Art21
Art2114 minOfficial source ↗ (opens in a new window)
Amy Sherald: Singular Moments | Art21 "Extended Play"
A Conversation with Amy Sherald
Whitney Museum of American ArtOfficial source ↗ (opens in a new window)
Major Works
- 2013Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance)
- 2018Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama
- 2018When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be
- 2017What’s different about Alice is that she has the most incisive way of telling the truth
- 2015The Bathers
- 2017A Clear Unspoken Granted Magic
- 2019If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it →
- 2022For love, and for country
- 2022As soft as she is...
- 2009They call me Redbone but I’d rather be Strawberry Shortcake
Museums & Public Collections
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo
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