Juneteenth VIP Night | Amy Sherald: American Sublime + Friday Jazz

Enjoy Amy Sherald: American Sublime after hours, with fewer crowds, and access to a cash bar from 5 to 9 p.m. every Friday night throughout the run of this exhibition. During VIP nights, the rest of the museum will close as normal at 5 p.m. On Fridays when there are High Frequency Friday or Friday Jazz events, the entire museum — including Amy Sherald — is open until 9 p.m. You must have a VIP Ticket in order to view Amy Sherald during High Frequency Friday or Friday Jazz. A VIP ticket will also give access to High Frequency Friday or Friday Jazz, on nights when those programs are concurrent.

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

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 recognize 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.

The High is the fourth and final venue for this exhibition, which is organized 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.