Metro Pictures, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Cheonan, Arario Gallery, Her Bodies: Cindy Sherman & Vanessa Beecroft, September 1–November 21, 2004, pp. 37, 57 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
me Collectors Room Berlin, Cindy Sherman–Works from the Olbricht Collection, September 16, 2015–August 28, 2016
Silkeborg, Museum Jorn, Cindy Sherman, September 23–December 10, 2017, pp. 114, 137 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
Wayne Koestenbaum, "Fall Gals: Cindy Sherman," Artforum, vol. 29, no. 1, September 2000, p. 148 (another example 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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