Metro Pictures, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Cindy Sherman, 9 July - 4 October 1987
Kunsthalle Basel; Munich, Staatsgalerie Moderne Kunst; London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Cindy Sherman, 28 March - 22 September 1991, pp. 46-47 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
Hamburg, Deichtorhallen; Malmö Konsthall; Lucerne, Kunstmuseum, Cindy Sherman: Photographic Work, 1975 - 1995, 25 May 1995 - 11 February 1996, no. 105, n.p. (another example exhibited and illustrated)
Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Prague, Galerie Rudolfinum; London, Barbican Art Gallery; Bordeaux, 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, no. 109, pp. 44-45, 142-143 and 199 (another example exhibited and illustrated, pp. 45 and 143)
Cindy Sherman, exh. cat., Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea di Milano, 1990, pp. 62-63 (another example illustrated)
Rosalind Krauss and Norman Bryson, Cindy Sherman 1975-1993, New York, 1993, pp. 152-153 and 230 (another example illustrated, pp. 152-153)
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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