New York, Metro Pictures, Cindy Sherman, May 8 - June 26, 2004 (another example exhibited)
Hanover, kestnergesellschaft, Cindy Sherman, September 24 - November 7, 2004, exh. cat. n.p. (another example exhibited, illustrated)
Paris, Musée du Jeu de Paume; Kunsthaus Bregenz; Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cindy Sherman, May 16, 2006 - September 10, 2007, pp. 218-219, 269 (another example exhibited)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco Museum of Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Dallas Museum of Art, Cindy Sherman, February 26, 2012 - June 9, 2013, pp. 194-195, plate 145 (illustrated)
Jan Avgikos, "New York, Cindy Sherman, Metro Pictures," Artforum, September 2004, p. 265
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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