Metro Pictures, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Paris, Jeu de Paume; Kunsthaus Bregenz; Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Berlin, Martin-Cropius-Bau, Cindy Sherman, 16 May 2006 - 10 September 2007, n.p. (another example exhibited and illustrated)
New York, 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, pp. 103 and 262 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 103)
Bridgeport, The Housatonic Museum of Art, Rendezvous in Black, 10 November - 16 December 2016 (another example exhibited)
Shanghai, Fosun Foundation, Cindy Sherman, 7 November 2018 - 13 January 2019 (another example exhibited)
London, National Portrait Gallery; Vancouver Art Gallery, Cindy Sherman, 27 June 2019 - 8 March 2020, pp. 68 and 250 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 68)
David Frankel and Cindy Sherman, eds., The Complete Untitled Film Stills Cindy Sherman, New York, 2003, pp. 154 - 155 (another example illustrated, p. 155)
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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