Amy Sherald exhibit at Baltimore Museum of Art is sold out

If you put off seeing Amy Sherald’s record-breaking exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art, we have bad news: You missed your chance.

Tickets are no longer available for “American Sublime,” which opened Nov. 2 and runs through April 5, according to the museum’s website. Anne Brown, the BMA’s senior director of communications, confirmed the sellout.

Anticipation for Sherald’s exhibit — 38 boldly kaleidoscopic paintings of Black portraits and life, made between 2007 and 2025 — grew long before its Baltimore premiere.

Sherald made headlines in July, when the Maryland Institute College of Art alum pulled “American Sublime” from its scheduled run at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. She cited censorship concerns related to “Trans Forming Liberty,” her portrait of a trans model dressed as the Statue of Liberty, which the White House later described as “divisive.”

“There were conversations about the work being censored,” Sherald told “60 Minutes.”

“The show is ‘American Sublime.‘ It was a whole narrative, and a trans woman is a part of that narrative for me.”

“American Sublime,” a paid, ticketed exhibit in the otherwise free museum, was an instant hit for the BMA. It has since become the institution’s most attended exhibit in at least the last 26 years. Roughly 70,000 visitors, according to the museum, are expected to see the exhibition, which includes famous portraits of first lady Michelle Obama and the late Breonna Taylor. After Baltimore, the exhibit’s national tour heads to its final stop, Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, from May 15-Sept. 27.

Sherald, who lived and worked in Baltimore from 2001 to 2018, is among a cohort of artists who have recently pulled their work out of Washington D.C., where cultural institutions have come under scrutiny from President Donald Trump, and relocated it to Maryland.

Earlier this month, the Washington National Opera, which left the Kennedy Center in D.C. after 55 years in January, announced it will bring “West Side Story” to the Lyric Baltimore and the Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda later this spring. Meanwhile, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will perform a new symphony by Baltimore native Philip Glass, another artist who left the Kennedy Center in protest, at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall and Strathmore in June 2027.