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Amy Sherald
The portraitist to Michelle Obama is preparing for her New York debut. By Dodie Kazanjian.
IN 2012, WHEN AMY SHERALD was 39, she collapsed in a Baltimore Rite Aid. The artist had been diagnosed eight years earlier with idiopathic cardiomyopathy—a disease of the heart muscle that makes it difficult for the organ to pump blood—and had been told that she would need a heart transplant. At the time, it hadn’t seemed urgent. She was in great physical shape, training to compete in a triathlon, and she was about to get her M.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Now, suddenly, she was in the hospital at Johns Hopkins, waiting for the transplant. By a cruel irony, her beloved younger brother, Michael, was dying from non–smoking related lung cancer in Georgia. “I knew at that point I had to live,” Sherald tells me, “because my mom couldn’t lose two children within weeks.” Eleven days after Michael died, Sherald got a new heart and a new life.
This story is from the August 2019 edition of Vogue.
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