Most people became aware of artist Amy Sherald in 2018 when her official portrait of former First Lady Michelle Obama was ...

She has painted portraits of Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor. But much of Amy Sherald’s work is about filling in absent ...

Amy Sherald is set to make history as the first Black contemporary artist to hold a solo exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Known for her renowned and iconic portrait ...

Sherald is brilliant, and millions of fans emerged overnight. The work has become so iconic that it's arguably one of the ...

Amy Sherald, ‘Precious Jewels by the Sea,’ 2019. (© Amy Sherald; Photo by Joseph Hyde; Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth) “Ecclesia,” a word dating back to ancient Athenian democracy and meaning ...

A survey spotlighting long-marginalized subjects concedes that even empathetic portrait painting doesn’t always fashion an expansive notion of Black being.

Both those paintings — and about 50 others made since 2007 — will be included in Amy Sherald: American Sublime, the New York artist’s first mid-career survey, on view at the San Francisco Museum of ...

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