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My brother dying changed me. I didn't realize how strong I was until I lost my brother.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Brother Changed Dying How Lost Me Realize Strong Until

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I was at all-white schools from kindergarten to twelfth grade, so I wanted to feel what it was like just to be me and not, like, Black Amy.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Amy Black Feel Grade Just Kindergarten Like Me Schools Wanted

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I wanted to be in museums. I don't do things to be small.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Museums Small Things Wanted

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My approach to portraiture is conceptual.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Approach Conceptual

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Michelle Obama is extraordinary, but she is also the kind of woman that exists in a way that is - she's a hundred percent relatable to all kinds of people, all genders all around the world.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Also Around Exists Extraordinary Hundred Kind Kinds Michelle Michelle Obama Obama People Percent She Way Woman World

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A lot of the artists that people equate my work to, I didn't find out about until after graduate school.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: About After Artists Equate Find Graduate Graduate School Lot Out People School Until Work

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When people ask me about color in my work, I tend to say that it came from spending a lot of time in Panama.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: About Ask Came Color Lot Me Panama People Say Spending Tend Time Work

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I want all types of people to look at my work and see themselves, just like I watch a Reese Witherspoon movie as a black woman and can empathize with her because we have had to internalize whiteness in that way to survive.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Because Black Empathize Had Her Just Like Look Movie People See Survive Themselves To Survive Types Want Watch Way Woman Work

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Just because someone said painting is dead doesn't mean that it's a fact or the truth - painting is the soul food of art, in a way.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Art Because Dead Fact Food Just Just Because Mean Painting Said Someone Soul Truth Way

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I paint as a way of looking for myself in the world.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Looking Myself Paint Way World

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: August 30th, 1973

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