ARTIST

Cindy Sherman

1954 · United States

She's her own leading lady—photographing herself as dozens of invented film characters to expose female stereotypes.

ABOUT

Cynthia Morris Sherman (born January 19, 1954) is an American artist whose work consists primarily of photographic self-portraits, depicting herself in many different contexts and as various imagined characters. Her breakthrough work is often considered to be the collection Untitled Film Stills, a series of 70 black-and-white photographs of herself evoking typical female roles in performance media (especially arthouse films and popular B-movies). == Early life and education…

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NOTABLE WORKS
Untitled (Lucy) Art Institute of Chicago Untitled Film Still #21 1978 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art Untitled 1980 · Cleveland Museum of Art Untitled #87 1981 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art Untitled 1982 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art Untitled from The Art Pro Choice II Print Portfolio 1991 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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