BMA to Host Three Programs in Conjunction with Amy Sherald: American Sublime

BALTIMORE, MD (October 1, 2025)—The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) will host three programs this fall in conjunction with its presentation of Amy Sherald: American Sublime. The artist’s acclaimed mid-career survey features approximately 40 paintings illuminating the arc of her career from 2007 to 2024. Highlights include Sherald’s Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition-winning painting Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance), the portrait of former First Lady Michelle Obama, the sweeping triptych Ecclesia (The Meeting of Inheritance and Horizons), the acclaimed memorial portrait of Breonna Taylor, and the monumental painting Trans Forming Liberty, among many others. The exhibition was organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and is on view at the BMA from November 2, 2025, through April 5, 2025.

Amy Sherald: American Sublime is organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) and curated by Sarah Roberts, SFMOMA’s former Andrew W. Mellon Curator and Head of Painting and Sculpture. The BMA’s presentation is organized by Asma Naeem, Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director, with Cecilia Wichmann, Curator and Department Head of Contemporary Art; Antoinette Roberts, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art; and Dylan Kaleikaumaka Hill, Meyerhoff-Becker Curatorial Fellow.

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