Metro Pictures, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Cindy Sherman: Working Girl, September 16–December 31, 2005, pp. 6, 36 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 6)
Lewiston, Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University, Western New York Collects: Cindy Sherman, March 23–July 20, 2014 (another example exhibited)
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney's Collection, April 2, 2016–April 2, 2017 (another example exhibited)
Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2003, p. 11 (another example illustrated)
Eva Respini, ed., Cindy Sherman, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2012, p. 18 (another example illustrated)
Gabriele Schor, ed., Cindy Sherman: The Early Works, 1975–1977 Catalogue Raisonné, Ostfildern, 2012, p. 38 (another example illustrated)
Holland Cotter, "Picturing America in the Selfie Age, at the Whitney," The New York Times, April 28, 2016, online
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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