Cindy Sherman

American, 1954

Born in 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Sherman is counted among the most influential artists of the last half-century. Upon graduating from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1976, Sherman relocated to New York City where she began making the seminal Untitled Film Stills. She has gone on to photograph and cast herself in various roles through her masterful use of costume, setting and pose. A retrospective of Sherman’s work was exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 2012. Accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue, the exhibition traveled to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the Dallas Museum of Art. Also, in February 2012, Hatje Cantz, in cooperation with the Sammlung Verbund Vienna, published a catalogue raisonné of formative early works produced by Sherman between 1975 and 1977. More recently, the exhibition Untitled Horrors traveled to the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Olso, Norway; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; and Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland.

Photo © Mark Seliger