Metro Pictures, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Directions: Cindy Sherman - Film Stills, March 15 - June 25, 1995 (another example exhibited)
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Cindy Sherman, March 10 - May 19, 1996, then traveled to Madrid, Palacio de Velzques, Parque del Retiro Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (July 8 - September 22, 1996), Bilbao, Sala de Exposiciones REKALDE (October 15 - December 1, 1996), Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (January 1 - March 23, 1997) (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art, 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 of Ontario (October 1, 1999 - January 2, 2000) (another example exhibited)
Paris, Jeu de Paume, Cindy Sherman, May 16 - September 3, 2006, then traveled to Bregenz, Kunsthaus Bregenz (November 25, 2006 - January 14, 2007), Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern 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, then traveled to San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (July 14 - October 7, 2012), Minneapolis, 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, Rizzoli: New York, 1993, pp. 56, 225 (illustrated)
Directions: Cindy Sherman - Film Stills, exh. cat., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., 1995, n.p. (illustrated)
Cindy Sherman, exh. cat., Museum Boijmans Van Bueningen, Rotterdam, 1996, pp. 17, 46 (illustrated)
Cindy Sherman, exh. cat., Tokyo, 1996, pp. 16, 35 (illustrated)
Cindy Sherman: Retrospective, exh. cat., The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1997, p. 77 pl. 36 (illustrated)
D. Frankel (ed.), The Complete Untitled Film Stills: Cindy Sherman, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2003, pp. 90-91, 159 (illustrated)
J. Rouart (ed.), Cindy Sherman, exh. cat., Jeu de Paume, Paris, 2006, pp. 54, 243 (illustrated)
J. Burton (ed.), "Cindy Sherman," The October Files, MIT Press: Cambridge, 2006, pp. 111-113, 136, 221, no. 30 (illustrated)
E. Respini (ed.), Cindy Sherman, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2012, p. 99, pl. 24 (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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