Sherell Chillik was born in 1993 in Detroit, MI. She received her BFA in painting at the College for Creative Studies in 2018 and will attend Cranbrook Academy of Art in the fall of 2025 for a Master’s in Painting. In 2024, she attended the Anderson Ranch Art Center Residency in Snowmass Village, CO, and taught collage and painting classes for students with disabilities through the Michigan Arts Access Teaching Artist Residency in 2023. Her most recent shows include the “95th MI Contemporary Art Exhibition” at Muskegon Museum of Art in Muskegon, MI, "Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibition" at Griffin Science Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, IL, and the "Carroll Harris Simms National Black Art Competition and Exhibition" at the African American Museum in Dallas TX.

Sherell's paintings capture humanity through the painted African American gaze and are inspired by biographical stories about her faith and earthly desires. She explores the natural world and imaginative landscapes through traditional acrylic figurative paintings. Her artwork captures moments of daily life, travel, portraiture, and contemplation, often reflecting her family and friends. Chillik often positions her family and friends in spaces of luxury, safety, and daydreams. She uses a mixture of a contemporary and a traditional painter's palette, and an intimate-sized paper or canvas to create these figurative works. Often, her work features a subject that is isolated or closely grouped against textured suggested locations or specific landmarks. Chillik enjoys the juxtaposition of reality and fiction and the blurred line between the two, leaving the viewer to decide where the line is drawn.