Cindy Sherman

A resident of New York, Cindy Sherman has developed a rich career as an artist. As a result of her innovative works, she has earned a number of recognitions, including a MacArthur Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts & Sciences Award, a Guild Hall Academy of the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award for Visual Arts, a Man Ray Award from the Jewish Museum, and a National Arts Award. Cindy Sherman takes on multiple roles in each of her projects, serving as a photographer, subject, and designer to create images that match her vision. In addition to taking photos, Ms. Sherman works with film and various other media.

Most of Cindy Sherman's series are comprised of portraits, including Bus Riders, Murder Mystery People, and the Untitled Film Stills, her most famous series. In her series Centerfolds, Ms. Sherman challenged the associations that people have with that term. Some of her other projects include Rear Screen Projections, Fairy Tales, History Portraits, and Society Portraits, as well as Clowns.

Currently, Cindy Sherman is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art; Tate Modern, London; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Previously, her work appeared in a show at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, entitled The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984. Other museums in which her work has appeared include Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria, Jeu de Paume in Paris, and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, as well as the Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst in Denmark.