American Painter
Artist Background
- Born in Columbus, Georgia
- Master of Fine Arts from Maryland Institute College of Art
- Best known for Michelle Obama’s Presidential Portrait displayed in the National Portrait Gallery
- First woman and African American ever to win the National Portrait Gallery’s Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition
- Depicts African Americans in everyday settings with a style of simplified realism
Most Significant Works
Michelle Obama, 2018 | National Portrait Gallery
Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance), 2013 | National Portrait Gallery
Paintings
The Bathers, 2015 | Amy Sherald
She Always Believed the Good About Those She Loved, 2018
She Was Learning to Love Moments, to Love Moments for Themselves, 2018
“60 Seconds with Amy Sherald”
The Columbus Museum
#MuseumFromHome with artist Amy Sherald who discusses the role photography played in her work “What’s different about Alice is that she has the most incisive way of telling the truth,” 2017, which is in The Columbus Museum’s permanent collection.