Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
Private Collection
Munster, Westfalische Kunstverein, Cindy Sherman Photographie, December 1985 - January, 1986 (another example exhibited)
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Cindy Sherman, July 4 - October 4, 1987
Basel, Kunsthalle, then travelled to Munich, Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst and London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Cindy Sherman, March - September, 1991
Oslo, Kunstnernes Hus, Louise Lawler, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, January - March, 1993
Hamburg, Deichtorhallen, then travelled to Malmo, Kunsthall and Luzern, Kunstmuseum, Cindy Sherman: Photoarbeiten 1975-1995, May 1995 - February, 1996 (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art, then travelled to Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Prague, Galerie Rudolfinum, London, Barbican Art Gallery, Bordeaux, capc Musee d'art contemporain, and Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Cindy Sherman Retrospective, November 1997-January 2000 (another example exhibited)
Cindy Sherman Photographie, exh. cat. Westfalische Kunstverein, Munster, 1986, p. 28 (illustrated)
Cindy Sherman, exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1987, pl. 97 (illustrated)
Cindy Sherman, exh. cat., Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1991, p. 44
Cindy Sherman: Photoarbeiten 1975-1995, exh. cat., Deichtorhallen, 1995, pl. 87 (illustrated)
Cindy Sherman Retrospective, exh. cat., The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1997, pl. 102, p. 136 (illustrated)
American • 1954
Seminal to the Pictures Generation as well as contemporary photography and performance art, Cindy Sherman is a powerhouse art practitioner. Wily and beguiling, Sherman's signature mode of art making involves transforming herself into a litany of characters, historical and fictional, that cross the lines of gender and culture. She startled contemporary art when, in 1977, she published a series of untitled film stills.
Through mise-en-scène and movie-like make-up and costume, Sherman treats each photograph as a portrait, though never one of herself. She embodies her characters even if only for the image itself. Presenting subversion through mimicry, against tableaus of mass media and image-based messages of pop culture, Sherman takes on both art history and the art world.
Though a shape-shifter, Sherman has become an art world celebrity in her own right. The subject of solo retrospectives across the world, including a blockbuster showing at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and a frequent exhibitor at the Venice Biennale among other biennials, Sherman holds an inextricable place in contemporary art history.
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