New York, Metro Pictures, Cindy Sherman, November 7 – November 28, 1981 (another example exhibited)
Dijon, Déjà vu, Cindy Sherman, October – November, 1982 (another example exhibited)
Art Gallery, State University of New York at Stony Brook and Middletown, Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Cindy Sherman, October – December, 1983 (another example
exhibited)
Saint-Étienne, Musée d’Art et d’Industrie, Cindy Sherman, December 1983 – January 1984 (another example exhibited)
Tokyo, Laforet Museum Harajuku, Cindy Sherman, April – May 1984 (another example exhibited)
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Cindy Sherman, July 9 – October 4, 1987 (another example exhibited)
Museo de Monterrey, Becher, Mapplethorpe, Sherman, April – June, 1992 (another example exhibited)
Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Julião Sarmento and Cindy Sherman, November 1994 – February 1995 (another example exhibited)
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Cindy Sherman: Film Stills, March 15 – June 25, 1995 (another example exhibited)
Shiga, Museum of Modern Art, Cindy Sherman, July 6 – August 18, 1996; Muragame, Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, September 8 – October 13, 1996;
Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art, October 26 – December 15, 1996 (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cindy Sherman: Retrospective, November 2, 1997 – February 1, 1998; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, February 28 – May 31, 1998; Prague, Galerie Rudofinum, June 25 – August 23, 1998; London, Barbican Art Gallery, September 10 – December 13, 1998; Bordeaux, CAPC Musée d’art Contemporain, February 6 – April 25, 1999; Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, June 4 – August 29, 1999; Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, October 1, 1999 – January 2, 2000 (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections; D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, October 2001 – October 2002 (another example exhibited)
New York, Skarstedt Gallery, Cindy Sherman: Centerfolds, 1981, May 10 – June 14, 2003 (another example exhibited)
Paris, Jeu de Paume, Cindy Sherman, May 16 – September 3, 2006; Kunsthaus Bregenz, November 25, 2006 – January 14, 2007; Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Art, February 9 – May 13, 2007; Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, June 15 – September 10, 2007 (another example exhibited)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Cindy Sherman, February 26 – June 11, 2012 (another example exhibited)
Cindy Sherman, Dijon, Déjà vu, 1982, n.p. (another example illustrated)
Cindy Sherman, Amsterdam, 1982, pl. 58 (another example illustrated)
“Cindy Sherman,” Art Vivant, September 1983, p. 19 (another example illustrated)
Cindy Sherman, Saint-Étienne, Musée d’Art et d’Industrie, 1983, p. 16 (another example illustrated)
P. Schjeldahl and M. Danoff, eds., Cindy Sherman, New York, 1984, no. 58 (another example illustrated
P. Schjeldahl and L. Phillips, Cindy Sherman, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1987, pl. 58 (another example illustrated)
Becher, Mapplethorpe, Sherman, Museo de Monterrey, 1992, pp. 180 and 244 (another example illustrated)
Julião Sarmento and Cindy Sherman, Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 1994, pp. 4 and 31 (another example illustrated)
P. Rosenzweig, Cindy Sherman: Film Stills, Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1995, n.p. (another example illustrated)
Cindy Sherman, Shiga, Museum of Modern Art, 1996, pl. 39, pp. 99 and 180 (another example illustrated)
A. Cruz, E. Smith, A. Jones, Cindy Sherman: Retrospective, New York, 1997, pl. 77, p. 106 (another example illustrated)
Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2001, p. 19 (another example illustrated)
L. Phillips, Cindy Sherman: Centerfolds, Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, 2003, pp. 26-27 (another example illustrated)
R. Durand, Cindy Sherman, Paris, Jeu de Paume, 2006, pp. 96-97 and p. 249 (another example illustrated)
E. Respini, Cindy Sherman, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 2012, pl. 98, p. 148 (another example illustrated)
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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