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Metro Pictures, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
London, Serpentine Gallery, Cindy Sherman, 3 June - 25 August 2003, pp. 78 and 95 (illustrated, p. 78)
Paris, Jeu de Paume; Kunsthaus Bregenz; Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Berlin, Martin Gropius-Bau, Cindy Sherman, 16 May 2006 - 10 September 2007, pp. 162-163, 258 and 318 (another example exhibited and illustrated, pp. 162-163, 258)
Munich, Museum Villa Stuck, Street Life and Home Stories: Fotografien aus der Sammlung Goetz, 1 June - 11 September 2011 (another example exhibited)
Silkeborg, Museum Jorn, Cindy Sherman, 23 September - 10 December 2017, pp. n.p. and 136 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
Francesco Bonami, ed., Cindy Sherman, Milan, 2007, pp. 72-73 and 107 (another example illustrated, pp. 72-73)
Cindy Sherman, exh. cat., Sammlung Goetz, Munich, 2015, pp. 2-3 and 157 (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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