The Amy Sherald SFMOMA show is the artist's largest to date, featuring her Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor paintings.
What intrigues about this particular presentation from the artist is the abundance of depictions of Black manhood, a stark contrast to the representations of womanhood for which Sherald is most famous ...
Ocula's editors have scoured the globe—from Los Angeles to London, Hong Kong to Sydney—to map out the artists with career-spanning surveys opening through 2025.
Perhaps Sherald’s second most famous work after “Michelle ... when he was director of the Baltimore Museum of Art. “I’ve felt for a long time that Amy is not only our most significant ...
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art devotes an exhibition to the contemporary American painter, best known for her portrait of Michelle Obama. Peter Plagens ...
As Sherald’s work has evolved technically and thematically through the 2020s, it increasingly engages with broader cultural conversations about representation.