The High Museum of Art will participate in the national tour of Amy Sherald’s mid-career retrospective, the most comprehensive exhibition of her work to date. This presentation will showcase a wide range of paintings created between 2007 and 2024, featuring many of Sherald’s iconic pieces along with rarely exhibited works from her career.
Amy Sherald was born in Columbus, Georgia, and has significant connections to Atlanta and the High Museum. She received her training as a painter in the city and is a graduate of Clark Atlanta University. In 2018, the High Museum honored her with the David C. Driskell Prize in African American Art and Art History, the inaugural national award acknowledging the significance of African American art. Additionally, the museum presented The Obama Portraits Tour in 2022, which included Sherald’s famous portrait of former First Lady Michelle Obama.
The High Museum will serve as the fourth and final venue for this exhibition, which is organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), where it initially debuted in 2024 and previously traveled to the Whitney Museum of American Art. Following its time in Atlanta, the exhibition is scheduled to be displayed at the Baltimore Museum of Art from November 2, 2025, to April 5, 2026.
