Amsterdam, The Stedelijk Museum, Cindy Sherman, 24 December 1982-6 February 1983, no. 17, p. 51 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Cindy Sherman, 9 July - 4 October 1987, no. 17, p. 55 (another example from the smaller scale edition of 10 exhibited and illustrated)
Kunsthalle Basel; Munich, Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst; London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Cindy Sherman, 28 March-22 September 1991, p. 19 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum, Cindy Sherman: Film Stills, 15 March-25 June 1995, no. 21, n.p. (another example exhibited and illustrated)
Hamburg, Deichtorhallen; Malmö, Kunsthall; Luzerne, Kustmuseum, Cindy Sherman: Photographic Work 1975-1995, 25 May 1995-11 February 1996, no. 4, p.32 (another example from the smaller scale edition of 10 exhibited and illustrated)
Shiga, Museum of Modern Art; Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art; Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cindy Sherman, 6 July-15 December 1996, no. 18, p. 180 (another example from the smaller scale edition of 10 exhibited and illustrated, p. 69)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, The Complete Untitled Film Stills: Cindy Sherman, 26 June-2 September 1997, pp. 16, 34, 159 (another example from the smaller scale edition of 10 exhibited and illustrated, p. 35)
Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Prague, Galerie Rudolfinum; London, Barbican Art Gallery; CAPC, Musée d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux; Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art; Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Cindy Sherman: Retrospective, 2 November 1997-2 January 2000, pl. 22, pp. 2, 197 (another example from the smaller scale edition of 10 exhibited and illustrated, p. 68)
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Life of the City, 28 February-21 May 2002 (another example exhibited)
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Photography: Inaugural Installation, 20 November 2004–6 June 2005 (another example exhibited)
Museum Morsbroich, Yes Yes Yes Yes: Difference and Repetition in Pictures of the Olbricht Collection, 16 October 2005–15 January 2006, p. 166 (illustrated)
Paris, Jeu de Paume; Kunsthaus Bregenz; Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cindy Sherman, 16 May 2006-10 September 2007, pp. 32, 242, 317 (another example from the smaller scale edition of 10 exhibited and illustrated, p. 42)
Essen, Museum Folkwang, Rockers Island Olbricht Collection, 5 May-1 July 2007, p. 277
Greenwich, CT, Bruce Museum, Cindy Sherman: Works from Friends of the Bruce Museum, 29 January-23 April 2011, p. 62 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 33)
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Pittsburgh, Andy Warhol Museum, Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, 18 September 2012-28 April 2013, no. 143, p. 292 (another example from the smaller scale edition of 10 exhibited and illustrated, p. 109)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Dallas Museum of Art, Cindy Sherman, 26 February 2012-9 June 2013, no. 35, pp. 40, 241, 262 (another example from the smaller scale edition of 10 exhibited and illustrated, p. 103)
Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Von Bildern. Strategien der Aneignung, 29 August 2015-24 January 2016, n.p. (another example from the smaller scale edition of 10 exhibited)
Berlin, Collectors Room, Cindy Sherman: Works from the Olbricht Collection, 16 September 2015-28 August 2016
London, Saatchi Gallery, From Selfie to Self-Expression, 31 March-6 June 2017, p. 96 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 11)
London, National Portrait Gallery; Vancouver Art Gallery; Paris, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Cindy Sherman, 27 June 2019-24 August 2020, no. 81, p. 251 (another example from the smaller scale edition of 10 exhibited and illustrated, p. 81)
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Collection 1970s–Present: Public Images, 21 October 2019–13 November 2022 (another example from the smaller scale edition of 10 exhibited)
New York, Hauser & Wirth; Los Angeles, Hauser & Wirth, Cindy Sherman 1977-1982, 4 May 2022-8 January 2023 (another example from the smaller scale edition of 10 exhibited)
Peter Schjeldahl and Michael Danoff, Cindy Sherman, New York, 1984, pl. 17, p. 47 (another example illustrated, p. 47 and backcover)
Arthur C. Danto, Cindy Sherman: Untitled Film Stills, London, 1990, no. 16 (another example illustrated, pp. 46-47)
Rosalind Krauss and Norman Bryson, Cindy Sherman: 1975-1993, New York, 1993, pp. 28, 225 (another example illustrated, pp. 30-31)
Cindy Sherman, exh. cat., Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen; Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía; Bilbao, Sala de Exposiciones Rekalde; Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Munich and London, 1995, no. 14, pp. 10-11, 16 (another example illustrate, pp. 10, 38-39)
Catherine Morris, The Essential: Cindy Sherman, New York, 1999, pp. 41-42 (another example from the smaller scale edition of 10 illustrated, p. 43)
Shelley Rice, ed., Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman, Cambridge, MA, 1999, no. 1.3, p. 7 (another example illustrated)
Gunilla Knape, ed., Cindy Sherman: The Hasselblad Award 1999, Göteborg, 2000, p. 41 (another example from the smaller scale edition of 10 illustrated)
Martin Maloney, I Am A Camera, The Saatchi Gallery, London, 2001, no. 148, n.p. (another example illustrated)
Harriet Schoenholz Bee and Cassandra Heliczer, eds., MoMA Highlights: 350 Works from The Museum of Modern Art New York, New York, 2004, p. 379 (another example from the smaller scale edition of 10 illustrated, p. 295 and back cover)
Johanna Burton, ed., Cindy Sherman, Cambridge and London, 2006, no. 28, pp. 44, 101, 221 (another example from the smaller scale edition of 10 illustrated, p. 102)
Gabriele Schor, 'Cindy's Original Scene: Doll Clothes. Sherman’s Early Film’, Parkett, Zürich, 2006, no. 78, p. 22 (another example from the smaller scale edition of 10 illustrated)
Sarah Hermanson Meister, Life of the City: New York Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007, p. 63 (another example from the smaller scale edition of 10 illustrated, p. 13)
Daniel Birnbaum, Cornelia H. Bulter and Suzanne Cotter, Defining Contemporary Art: 25 Years in 200 pivotal artworks, London, 2011, p. 30 (another example from the smaller scale edition of 10 illustrated)
Will Gompertz, What Are You Looking At? 150 Years of Modern Art in the Blink of an Eye, London, 2012, no. 31, pp. 352, 409, 431 (another example illustrated, p. 353)
Paul Moorhouse, Cindy Sherman, London, 2014, no. 32, pp. 29, 146 (another example from the smaller scale edition of 10 illustrated, p. 37)
Gabrielle Selz, Unstill Life: A Daughter's Memoir of Art and Love in the Age of Abstraction, New York, 2014, p. 274 (another example illustrated)
Douglas Crimp, Before Pictures, Chicago, 2016, pp. 254, 256 (another example illustrated, p. 257)
Nicholas Mirzoeff, How to See the World, New York, 2016, pp. 314, 331 (another example from the smaller scale edition of 10 illustrate, p. 54)
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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