About Amy

Baltimore City
Amy Sherald's most recent honors include the 2016 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition grand prize from the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and her solo exhibition in Chicago at moniquemeloche over the summer of 2016. Sherald lives in Baltimore and received her MFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art (2004), BA in Painting from Clark-Atlanta University (1997), and was a Spelman College International Artist-in-Residence in Portobelo, Panama (1997). She is a… more

Amy Sherald Interviews

  • Amy Sherald, First Prize, The Outwin 2016
    Interview with Amy Sherald, winner of first prize at "The Outwin Boochever 2016" for her painting titled "Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance).”
  • On the Record: Amy Sherald, Portrait Artist
    By Sheilah Kast and Andrea Appleton; Dec 9, 2016
  • Amy Sherald: Amy Sherald - Empathy
    Amy Sherald at CreativeMornings Baltimore, September 2015
  • BRIGHT. Amy Sherald, Painter
  • Amy Sherald: TV Hill - WBAL
  • Amy Sherald: African Presence in Renaissance Europe

A Wonderful Dream

  • The Boy with the Big Fish
    The Boy with the Big Fish
    2016, 54 x 43 inches, Oil on Canvas
  • Mother and Child
    Mother and Child
    2016, 54 x 43 inches, Oil on Canvas
  • Pilgrimage of the Chameleon
    Pilgrimage of the Chameleon
    2016, 71 x 51 inches, Oil on Canvas
  • The Make Believer (Monet's Garden)
    The Make Believer (Monet's Garden)
    2016, 54 x 43 inches, Oil on Canvas
  • Innocent You, Innocent Me
    Innocent You, Innocent Me
    2016, 54 x 43 inches, Oil on Canvas
  • Pupa
    Pupa
    2016, 54 x 43 inches, Oil on Canvas