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Sign InSprüth Magers/Simon Lee, London
Private Collection, New York
Max Lang Gallery, New York
Private Collection, London, 2009
Artnet auctions, 30 June 2021, lot 134283
Private Collection, Los Angeles
Sherman, Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills, p. 129
Krauss and Bryson, Cindy Sherman: 1975-1993, p. 64
Rizzoli Electa, Cindy Sherman, p. 93
The Museum of Modern Art, Cindy Sherman, pl. 23
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Cindy Sherman: Retrospective, pl. 27
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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