Sherrill Roland was born in 1984 in Asheville, North Carolina. He studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2018) and earned an MFA and BFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2017 and 2009). He currently lives in Durham, North Carolina, and is a tenure-track sculpture professor at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

Roland held concurrent solo exhibitions at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and the Ackland Museum of Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2023–2024). He has also had solo exhibitions at the Asheville Art Museum (2022–2023); Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York and Los Angeles (2021 and 2023); Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston-Salem, NC (2022); Shirley Fiterman Art Center, Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York (2019); Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Gallery, Georgetown University, Washington, DC (2019); and Brooklyn’s Central Public Library (2017), among others. 

Roland is a Duke Artistic Research Initiative Fellow (2024) and was a Smithsonian Research Artist Fellowship (2023). He received the Society 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art at the Gibbes Museum of Art (2023); a Creative Capital Award (2021), the South Arts Southern Grand Prize & State Fellowship (2020), and was an Art for Justice Grantee (2020) among other awards and recognitions. He has held fellowships at the Wake County District Attorney's Office and residencies at Fountainhead, Miami; Duke University, Durham, NC; and Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, among others.