Sherell Chillik is an African American Painter from Detroit, MI. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the College for Creative Studies in 2018. She currently attends the Cranbrook Academy of Art MFA program for Painting. Chillik began showing her work in competitive national and regional fine art exhibitions in 2019. She taught collage and painting classes for students with disabilities through the Michigan Arts Access Teaching Artist Residency in 2023. In 2024, she attended the Anderson Ranch Art Center Residency in Snowmass Village, CO. Her most recent shows include the “96th MI Contemporary Art Exhibition” at Muskegon Museum of Art in Muskegon, MI, and the “43rd Annual Juried competition ‘A Sense of Place”, at the Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art in Augusta, Georgia.

Sherell's narrative figurative paintings and mixed media works center Black lives. She captures its complicated relationships with the supernatural, history, circulation and ownership of one's image. She takes influence from social media, Black Life Fiction literature, segregated American church culture, friends and family. Chillik collages historical material with Black myths to retell  and or add upon uncommon narratives. Her interest heavily lies in the complexity of the ordinary Black experience and the glue (spiritual) that holds it together. She enjoys the juxtaposition of  history and the present and capturing the Black gaze through traditional and contemporary materials on canvas, paper and fabric.