In ‘A Memory of Place: Landscape for a Quiet Body’ (2026), Amy Sherald brings together portraiture and landscape painting to evoke the body as a site of memory and place. The landscape resting across the subject’s chest surfaces ideas of inheritance, longing, migration, home and interior worlds that remain unseen. Sherald shapes an intimate terrain of reflection and imagination where a landscape becomes a window into memory, identity and belonging.
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Amy Sherald
A Memory of Place: Landscape for a Quiet Body
- 2026
- Oil on linen
- 137.5 x 109.5 x 6.4 cm / 54 1/8 x 43 1/8 x 2 1/2 in
© Amy SheraldPhoto: Kelvin Bulluck
About the artist
Born in Columbus, Georgia, and now based in the New York City area, Amy Sherald documents contemporary African American experience in the United States through arresting, intimate portraits. Sherald engages with the history of photography and portraiture, inviting viewers to participate in a more complex debate about accepted notions of race and representation, and to situate Black life in American art.
