American Sublime

The national tour for Amy Sherald’s acclaimed mid-career retrospective, which is the largest exhibition of her work to date is now showing at the High Museum of Art.

Featuring a broad range of paintings made from 2007 to 2024, the presentation will include many of Sherald’s most iconic works, along with rarely seen paintings spanning her career. The High is the fourth and final venue for this exhibition, which is organised by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), where it debuted in 2024, and which previously traveled to the Whitney Museum of American Art. The exhibition will be on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art (November 2, 2025–April 5, 2026) before it comes to Atlanta.

Born in Columbus, Georgia, Sherald has deep ties to Atlanta and to the High. She trained as a painter in the city and graduated from Clark Atlanta University. In 2018, the High awarded her its annual David C. Driskell Prize in African American Art and Art History, the first national award to recognise the importance of African American art. The museum presented The Obama Portraits Tour, featuring her renowned portrait of former First Lady Michelle Obama, in 2022.

Source: High Museum Website