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Film & TV
Glen Ridge, New Jersey, USA
Cindy Sherman is an American artist whose work consists primarily of photographic self-portraits that depict her in many different contexts and as various imagined characters. Her breakthrough work is often considered to be the collected "Untitled Film Stills," a series of 70 black-and-white photographs of herself evoking typical women roles in performance media (especially arthouse films and…
Known for
- House of Criticism2026
- Cindy Sherman #untitled2019
- 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing2019
- The Feature2008
- Pecker — Herself1998
- Office Killer — Woman Photographer (uncredited)1997
- Cindy Sherman: Nobody's Here But Me — Self1994
- The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July1986
- Bird — Herself1976
- Unhappy Hooker — Hooker1976
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Key facts
- Born
- Cynthia Morris Sherman , ( 1954-01-19 ) January 19, 1954 (age 72) , Glen Ridge, New Jersey , U.S.
- Education
- SUNY
- Occupation
- Artist
- Known for
- Photographic self-portraits
- Notable work
- Untitled #96 , Untitled #153 , Complete Untitled Film Stills , 1977–1980
- Spouse
- Michel Auder ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1984 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1999 )
- Awards
- MacArthur Fellowship
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Glen Ridge
- Spouse
- Michel Auder
- Occupation
- filmmaker
- Educated at
- Buffalo State University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Time 100
- Participant in
- documenta 7
- Field of work
- photography
- Genre
- portrait
- Image
- Cindy Sherman (cropped).jpg
- Work location
- United States
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- Commons category
- Cindy Sherman
- birth name
- Cynthia Morris Sherman
- date of birth
- 1954-01-19
- Commons Creator page
- Cindy Sherman
- name in native language
- Cindy Sherman
- has works in the collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- copyright representative
- Cindy Sherman
- work available at URL
- www.fembio.org/biographie.php/frau/feature/cindy-sherman/beruehmte-fotografinnen
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Encyclopedic overview
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).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cindy Sherman” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.