Sherald's monumental solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of Art is rooted in the power of Black figures and the visual ...

Amy Sherald, who painted former First Lady Michelle Obama's portrait in 2018, has a major survey of her work opening this week at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Amy Sherald’s portraits are an unsettling fusion of the intimate and the unknown — allegories and archetypes with impossibly ...

Sherald knits historic, cinematic, and literary references into many of her artworks, embedding their legacies into the distinct visual world she’s created. The Whitney Museum of American Art presents ...

“Though she has been known for these two moments, Mrs. Obama and Breonna Taylor’s portraits, she has been a working artist for 25 years,” Rujeko Hockley, the show’s curator, said in a press preview at ...

A decade ago, Amy Sherald was still struggling to make her mark. But even before she was commissioned to paint former First Lady Michelle Obama's portrait, she knew she'd have a major museum ...