艾米·谢拉德（Amy Sherald）1973年出生于佐治亚州哥伦布市。她通过创作引人注目、超脱尘世的肖像来记录当代非裔美国人的生活经验。
谢拉德是第一位获得华盛顿特区国家肖像馆(National Portrait Gallery)颁发的2016年「奥特温·布谢弗肖像大赛」(Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition)一等奖的女性及非裔美国人。
2018年2月，国家肖像馆揭晓了她创作的美国前第一夫人米歇尔·奥巴马(Michelle Obama)的肖像。
2020年8月，谢拉德受《名利场》杂志委托创作了布伦娜·泰勒(Breonna Taylor)的封面肖像。她的首次美术馆个展于2018年在圣路易斯当代艺术博物馆(Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis)与水晶桥美国艺术馆(Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art)举办，并于2019年1月在斯佩尔曼学院美术馆(Spelman College Museum of Fine Art)开幕。
2018年，她获得了佐治亚州亚特兰大高等艺术博物馆(High Museum of Art)颁发的「大卫·德里克尔奖」(David C. Driskell Prize)。在追求绘画艺术的同时，谢拉德还在过去的二十年间投身于社会创意项目，包括监狱艺术教学、青少年艺术项目等。
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