Obama Portrait Artists: Amy Sherald

Credit: Paul Morigi, 2016/AP Images for National Portrait Gallery
October 16, 2017
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Amy Sherald
Credit: Paul Morigi, 2016/AP Images for National Portrait Gallery

Amy Sherald was the first-prize winner of the National Portrait Gallery’s 2016 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. Sherald’s painting is currently on view at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, which is hosting the exhibition resulting from the Portrait Gallery’s triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition: “The Outwin 2016: American Portraiture Today.”