Yes, Amy Sherald underwent a heart transplant in 2012. Eight years earlier, while the artist was in graduate school, she was diagnosed with idiopathic cardiomyopathy. The cardiac disease results in heart failure due to a decrease in the organ’s pumping power. Sherald was told she would eventually need a heart transplant, but it wasn’t until she collapsed in a drugstore when her heart was functioning at just 5 percent capacity that the procedure became urgent. Sherald spent a year recovering from the transplant before returning to her art career.
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