艾米·謝拉德（Amy Sherald）1973年出生于佐治亞州哥倫布市。她通過創(chuàng)作引人注目、超脫塵世的肖像來記錄當(dāng)代非裔美國(guó)人的生活經(jīng)驗(yàn)。
謝拉德是第一位獲得華盛頓特區(qū)國(guó)家肖像館(National Portrait Gallery)頒發(fā)的2016年「奧特溫·布謝弗肖像大賽」(Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition)一等獎(jiǎng)的女性及非裔美國(guó)人。
2018年2月，國(guó)家肖像館揭曉了她創(chuàng)作的美國(guó)前第一夫人米歇爾·奧巴馬(Michelle Obama)的肖像。
2020年8月，謝拉德受《名利場(chǎng)》雜志委托創(chuàng)作了布倫娜·泰勒(Breonna Taylor)的封面肖像。她的首次美術(shù)館個(gè)展于2018年在圣路易斯當(dāng)代藝術(shù)博物館(Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis)與水晶橋美國(guó)藝術(shù)館(Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art)舉辦，并于2019年1月在斯佩爾曼學(xué)院美術(shù)館(Spelman College Museum of Fine Art)開幕。
2018年，她獲得了佐治亞州亞特蘭大高等藝術(shù)博物館(High Museum of Art)頒發(fā)的「大衛(wèi)·德里克爾獎(jiǎng)」(David C. Driskell Prize)。在追求繪畫藝術(shù)的同時(shí)，謝拉德還在過去的二十年間投身于社會(huì)創(chuàng)意項(xiàng)目，包括監(jiān)獄藝術(shù)教學(xué)、青少年藝術(shù)項(xiàng)目等。
American, b. Columbus, GA 1973
Lives and works in Greater New York City Area
2004 MFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1997 BFA, Clark-Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA
2021 Amy Sherald: The Great American Fact, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Hauser & Wirth Online Exhibition
2019 Amy Sherald: the heart of the matter..., Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY
2018 Amy Sherald, Contemporary Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO; traveling to Crystal Bridges Museum of
American Art, Bentonville, AR; Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
2017 Amy Sherald, moniquemeloche LES, New York, NY
2016 A Wonderful Dream, moniquemeloche, Chicago, IL
2015 Off The Chain: American Art Unfettered, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2013 Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Baltimore, MD
2011 Richard Demato Fine Arts, Sag Harbor, NY
The Magical Real-ism of Amy Sherald, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
Sonja Haynes Stone Center, Chapel Hill, NC
2017 Joan Mitchell Residency, New Orleans, Louisiana
2014-16 Creative Alliance Baltimore, Maryland
2012 Open Atelier, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Art Rules Aruba Teaching Residency
2011 Art Rules Aruba Teaching Residency
2008 Tong Xion Art Center, Studio Assistant Resident, Beijing, China
2005 Odd Nerdrum Private Study
2003 Taller Portobelo Artist Colony Portobelo, Panama
1997 Spelman College Art Colony Portobelo, Panama
1996 Maine College of Art Portland, Maine
2019 Smithsonian Ingenuity Award
2017 Anonymous Was a Woman Award
2016 Bethesda Painting Award
Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition Grand Prize, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
2015 Semi-Finalist for Sondheim Artscape Prize
2014 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptures Grant
2013 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
The Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington D.C.
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
Embassy of the United States, Dakar, Senegal
The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA