Milan, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Cindy Sherman, 1990 (another example exhibited); Kunsthalle Basel, 28 March – 20 May, 1991; Munich, Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, 21 June – 24 July, 1991 and London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 2 August – 22 September, 1991 (another example exhibited), Cindy Sherman; Milwaukee Art Museum, January – March, 1991; Miami, Centre for the Fine Arts, May – July, 1991 and Minneapolis, Walker Art Centre, July – October, 1991, Cindy Sherman (another example exhibited); D.C., Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, 7 October, 1999 – 17 January, 2000 and Munich, Haus der Kunst, 11 February – 30 April, 2000 (another example exhibited), Regarding Beauty. A View of the Late Twentieth Century; London Serpentine Gallery, 3 June – 25 August, 2003 (another example exhibited) and Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 6 December, 2003 – 7 March, 2004 (another example exhibited), Cindy Sherman; Paris, Jeu de Paume, 16 May – 3 September, 2006; Kunsthaus Bregenz, 25 November, 2006 – 14 January, 2007; Humlebeak, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 9 February – 13 May, 2007 Berlin, Martin-Gropius Bau, 15 June – 10 September, 2007 (another example exhibited), Cindy Sherman
A. Danto, Cindy Sherman: History Portraits, New York, 1990 (another example illustrated); Exhibition Catalogue, Cindy Sherman, Basel, 1991, p. 57 (another example illustrated); R. Krauss and N. Bryson, Cindy Sherman – 1975-1993, New York, 1993, p. 169 (another example illustrated); C. Schneider, Cindy Sherman – History Portraits : die Wiedergeburt des Gemäldes nach dem Ende der Malerei, Munich, 1995, pl. 6 (another example illustrated); Exhibition Catalogue, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Haus der Kunst Munich, Regarding Beauty. A View of the Late Twentieth Century, Washington, 2000, pl. 67, p. 47 (another example illustrated); Exhibition Catalogue, Serpentine Gallery and Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Cindy Sherman, London, 2003, p. 74 (another example illustrated); Exhibition Catalogue, Cindy Sherman, Paris, 2006, pp. n.p & p. 257 (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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