Metro Pictures, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
New York, Metro Pictures, Cindy Sherman, January 6 - January 27, 1990 (another example exhibited)
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Rose is a Rose is a Rose: Gender Performance in Photography, January 17 - April 27, 1997, p. 84 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
New York, Skarstedt Gallery, Cindy Sherman: History Portraits, November 8 - December 20, 2008 (another example exhibited)
Roslyn Harbor, Nassau County Museum of Art, Long Island Collections, January 18 - March 15, 2009 (another example exhibited)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Cindy Sherman, February 26 - June 11, 2012, no. 139, p. 184 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
Los Angeles, The Broad, Cindy Sherman: Imitation of Life, June 11 - October 2, 2016, p. 92 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
Arthur C. Danto, Cindy Sherman: History Portraits, Munich, 1991, no. 28 (another example illustrated)
Rosalind E. Krauss, Cindy Sherman, 1975 - 1993, New York, 1993, p. 176 (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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