Amy Sherald, As Soft as She Is…, 2022.
Oil on linen, 54 1/8 43 1/8 2.5 in.
(137.16 109.22 6.35 cm).
Amy Sherald, “As Soft as She Is…,” 2022. Oil on linen, 54 1/8 × 43 1/8 × 2.5 in. (137.16 × 109.22 × 6.35 cm). Tate, purchased with funds provided by the Tymure Collection. © Amy Sherald. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. (Photo: Joseph Hyde)
Tate, purchased with funds provided by the Tymure Collection.
Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
American Sublimefirmly positions Sherald as one of America’s most significant contemporary artists.
Amy Sherald, “Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama,” 2018. Oil on linen, 72 1/8 × 60 1/8 × 2.5 in. (183.1 × 152.718 × 6.3 cm). National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. The National Portrait Gallery is grateful to the following lead donors for their support of the Obama portraits: Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg; Judith Kern and Kent Whealy; Tommie L. Pegues and Donald A. Capoccia. Courtesy of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery
These works are not about display of surface realities or the projection of a persona.
This is particularly thrilling given art history’s exclusion of both women and people of color.
As exhibition curator Sarah Roberts writes, Amy Sheralds paintings speak of the American present.
Amy Sherald, “Breonna Taylor,” 2020. Oil on linen, 54 × 43 × 2 1/2 in. (137.2 × 109.2 × 6.4 cm). The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, purchase made possible by a gift from Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg/The Hearthland Foundation and the Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, purchase made possible by a gift from the Ford Foundation. © Amy Sherald
Amy Sherald, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama, 2018.
Oil on linen, 72 1/8 60 1/8 2.5 in.
(183.1 152.718 6.3 cm).
Amy Sherald, “Saint Woman,” 2015. Oil on canvas, 54 × 43 × 2.5 in. (137.16 × 109.22 × 6.35 cm). Private collection. Courtesy Monique Meloche Gallery and Hauser & Wirth. © Amy Sherald. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. (Photo: Joseph Hyde)
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
Courtesy of the Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery
Amy Sherald, Breonna Taylor, 2020.
Oil on linen, 54 43 2 1/2 in.
Amy Sherald, “What’s precious inside of him does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence (All American),” 2017. Oil on canvas, 54 × 43 × 2.5 in. (137.16 × 109.22 × 6.35 cm). Private collection, courtesy Monique Meloche Gallery. © Amy Sherald. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. (Photo: Joseph Hyde)
(137.2 109.2 6.4 cm).
Amy Sherald, Saint Woman, 2015.
Oil on canvas, 54 43 2.5 in.
Amy Sherald, “If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it,” 2019. Oil on canvas, 130 × 108 × 2 1/2 in. (330.2 × 274.3 × 6.4 cm. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee, Sascha S. Bauer, Jack Cayre, Nancy Carrington Crown, Nancy Poses, Laura Rapp, and Elizabeth Redleaf 2020.148. © Amy Sherald
(137.16 109.22 6.35 cm).
Courtesy Monique Meloche Gallery and Hauser & Wirth.
Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
Amy Sherald, “Listen, you a wonder. You a city of a woman. You got a geography of your own,” 2016. Oil on canvas, 54 × 43 × 2.5 in (137.16 × 109.22 × 6.35 cm). Collection of Rashid Johnson and Sheree Hovsepian. © Amy Sherald. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. (Photo: Joseph Hyde)
Oil on canvas, 54 43 2.5 in.
(137.16 109.22 6.35 cm).
Private collection, courtesy Monique Meloche Gallery.
Amy Sherald, “Planes, Rockets, and the Spaces in Between,” 2018. Oil on canvas, 100 x 67 x 2.5 in. (254 x 170.1 x 6.35 cm). Baltimore Museum of Art, Purchase with exchange funds from the Pearlstone Family Fund and partial gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. © Amy Sherald. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. (Photo: Joseph Hyde)
Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
Oil on canvas, 130 108 2 1/2 in.
(330.2 274.3 6.4 cm.
Amy Sherald, The Rabbit in the Hat, 2008. Oil on canvas, 54 × 43 × 2.5 in. (137.16 × 109.22 × 6.35 cm). Green Family Art Foundation, courtesy Adam Green Art Advisory. © Amy Sherald. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. (Photo: Christina Hussey)
Amy Sherald
Amy Sherald, Listen, you a wonder.
You a city of a woman.
You got a geography of your own, 2016.
Amy Sherald, “The Bathers,” 2015. Oil on canvas, 72 1/8 × 67 × 2.5 in. (183.2 × 170.2 cm). Private Collection. © Amy Sherald. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. (Photo: Joseph Hyde)
Oil on canvas, 54 43 2.5 in (137.16 109.22 6.35 cm).
Collection of Rashid Johnson and Sheree Hovsepian.
Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
Amy Sherald, “They Call Me Redbone, but I’d Rather Be Strawberry Shortcake,” 2009. Oil on canvas, 54 × 43 × 2.5 in. (137.16 × 109.22 × 6.35 cm). National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, gift of Steven Scott, Baltimore, in honor of the artist and the 25th anniversary of National Museum of Women in the Arts. © Amy Sherald. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. (Photo: Ryan Stevenson)
Amy Sherald, Planes, Rockets, and the Spaces in Between, 2018.
Oil on canvas, 100 x 67 x 2.5 in.
(254 x 170.1 x 6.35 cm).
Amy Sherald, “A Midsummer Afternoon Dream,” 2021. Oil on canvas, 106 × 101 × 2.5 in. (269.24 × 256.54 × 6.35 cm). Private Collection. © Amy Sherald. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. (Photo: Joseph Hyde)
Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
(Photo: Joseph Hyde)
Amy Sherald, The Rabbit in the Hat, 2008.
Oil on canvas, 54 43 2.5 in.
Amy Sherald, “Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance),” 2014. Oil on canvas, 54 × 43 × 2.5 in. (137.16 × 109.22 × 6.35 cm). Private Collection. © Amy Sherald. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. (Photo: Joseph Hyde)
(137.16 109.22 6.35 cm).
Green Family Art Foundation, courtesy Adam Green Art Advisory.
Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
Amy Sherald, “Hangman,” 2007. Oil on canvas, 100 × 67 × 2.5 in. (254 × 170.18 × 6.35 cm). Collection of Sheryll Cashin and Marque Chambliss. © Amy Sherald. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. (Photo: Kelvin Bulluck)
(Photo: Christina Hussey)
Amy Sherald, The Bathers, 2015.
Oil on canvas, 72 1/8 67 2.5 in.
(183.2 170.2 cm).
Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
Oil on canvas, 54 43 2.5 in.
(137.16 109.22 6.35 cm).
Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
(Photo: Ryan Stevenson)
Amy Sheralds paintings speak of the American present.
Amy Sherald, A Midsummer Afternoon Dream, 2021.
Oil on canvas, 106 101 2.5 in.
(269.24 256.54 6.35 cm).
Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
(Photo: Joseph Hyde)
Amy Sherald, Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance), 2014.
Oil on canvas, 54 43 2.5 in.
(137.16 109.22 6.35 cm).
Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
(Photo: Joseph Hyde)
Amy Sherald, Hangman, 2007.
Oil on canvas, 100 67 2.5 in.
(254 170.18 6.35 cm).
Collection of Sheryll Cashin and Marque Chambliss.
Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
(Photo: Kelvin Bulluck)
