Private Collection, Europe
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, The Complete Untitled Film Stills, Cindy Sherman, June 26 - September 2, 1997 (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Cindy Sherman Retrospective, November 2, 1997 - February 1, 1998, then traveled to Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art (February 21 - May 31, 1998), Prague, Galerie Rudolfinum (June 25 - August 23, 1998), London, Barbican Art Gallery (September 10 - December 13, 1998), Bordeaux, CAPC, Musée d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux (February 6 - April 25, 1999). Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art (June 4 - August 29, 1999), Toronto, Art Gallery Toronto (October 1, 1999 - January 2, 2000) (another example exhibited)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Cindy Sherman, February 26 - June 11, 2012) then traveled to San Francisco, The Museum of Modern Art (July 14 - October 7, 2012), Minneapolis, The Walker Art Center (November 10, 2012 - February 17, 2013), Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art (March 17 - June 9, 2013) (another example exhibited)
R. Krauss, Cindy Sherman, 1975 - 1993, New York: Rizzoli, 1993, p. 72 (illustrated)
A. Cruz, Cindy Sherman Retrospective, London: Thames & Hudson, 1997, p. 92, pl. 62 (illustrated)
The Complete Untitled Film Stills, Cindy Sherman, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1997, p. 120 (illustrated)
J. Burton, Cindy Sherman, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2012, p. 119, pl. 75 (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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