New 29,000+ sqft contemporary art museum to open in Gibraltar.
18 March 2024 • Mark Westall
Opening in Autumn 2025, Fortress House is a new contemporary art museum that will be a major addition to the… Read More
Cindy Sherman, born in 1954 in Glen Ridge, NJ, currently resides and works in New York, NY. With a career spanning over four decades, Sherman’s groundbreaking work has continuously explored themes of representation and identity in contemporary media. Emerging in the late 1970s as part of the influential Pictures Generation alongside artists like Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince, and Louise Lawler, Sherman initially delved into photography during her studies at Buffalo State College in the early 1970s.
In 1977, upon her move to New York City, Sherman embarked on her acclaimed Untitled Film Stills series, marking the beginning of her artistic journey. Over the years, she has consistently deconstructed and reconstructed familiar personas, often in unsettling ways. By the mid to late 1980s, Sherman’s visual language evolved to explore the more grotesque aspects of humanity through works like Fairy Tales (1985) and Disasters (1986-89). These highly visceral images incorporated visible prostheses and mannequins, a theme later extended in series like Sex Pictures (1992), adding layers of artifice to her constructed female identities.
Sherman’s renowned History Portraits, initiated in 1988, utilized theatrical effects to challenge rather than maintain any sense of illusion. Since the early 2000s, she has incorporated digital technology to manipulate her characters further. Notable series like Clown (2003) introduced psychedelic backdrops, exploring the contrast between exterior personas and interior psychology. Society Portraits (2008) employed green screens to create elaborate environments for women of high societal standing, emphasizing the veneer-like charm and societal status in the face of aging.
In her Flappers series from 2016, Sherman confronts the vulnerability of aging, portraying 1920s Hollywood starlets in glamorous attire from their prime with exaggerated makeup. Utilizing Instagram from 2017 onwards, Sherman shares portraits using face-altering apps, transforming herself into a variety of protagonists against kaleidoscopic settings. These disorienting and uncanny posts underscore the dissociative nature of Instagram from reality. Explore Cindy Sherman’s diverse and thought-provoking body of work, capturing the essence of identity and societal perceptions over the years.
18 March 2024 • Mark Westall
Opening in Autumn 2025, Fortress House is a new contemporary art museum that will be a major addition to the… Read More
12 January 2024 • Mark Westall
On 18 January 2024, preeminent American artist Cindy Sherman will unveil her latest body of work for the first time… Read More
3 January 2024 • Mark Westall
In the spring of 2024, a set of iconic works from the Pinault Collection will be displayed throughout the Bourse de Commerce.
9 December 2021 • Mark Westall
For the first time, a joint exhibition brings together the work of the renowned Austrian artist Maria Lassnig (b. 1919, Carinthia, Austria, d. 2014, Vienna, Austria) and the ground-breaking US artist Cindy Sherman (b. 1954, Glenn Ridge, New Jersey) at Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz.
8 December 2021 • Bella Bonner-Evans
From Carolee Schneemann’s Meat Joy (1964) and Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #175 (1987) to Sarah Lucas’ Self-Portrait with Fried Eggs (1996),… Read More
10 March 2021 • Mark Westall
Hauser & Wirth have announced worldwide representation of Cindy Sherman. Widely recognised as one of the most important and influential American artists of her generation.
16 February 2021 • Mark Westall
Sprüth Magers are presenting the first solo exhibition by Cindy Sherman at their Los Angeles gallery. In the latest series on… Read More
18 November 2020 • Mark Westall
An exhibition of new works by Cindy Sherman is to open this week, one of the most influential artists internationally who has been associated with Sprüth Magers since the 1980s. I
6 May 2020 • Paul Carey-Kent
What are artists doing during lockdown? This week and next I will feature work made in last couple of months which reflect some of those factors.
17 February 2020 • Gaston La-Gaffe
2019 saw a returned interest in the ancient art of cameo jewellery. Wartski’s held a exhibition of cameo’s by Europe’s greatest gem engravers and Liz Swig, founder of LizWorks, unveiled of a breathtakingly modern interpretation of the ancient medium by artists Catherine Opie and Cindy Sherman at the Venice Biennale.
25 August 2019 • Tabish Khan
Black pioneers, a creepy clown, a spinning car, a pile of ears and a giant spider.
24 July 2019 • Paul Carey-Kent
The National Portrait Gallery’s mixture of history, people and art can is currently at its strongest. The pay-for exhibition, of Cindy Sherman, is a convincing presentation of 40 years of self-images which includes some fascinating rarely-seen early works and new-to-Britain late works as well as her most seminal series, including all 70 ‘screen tests’.
10 August 2018 • Mark Westall
DRAG: Self-portraits and Body Politics ?is the first institutional exhibition to expand on the traditional representations of drag, involving drag queens, drag kings and bio drags from different generations and backgrounds.
16 June 2016 • Mark Westall
A joint exhibition of Cindy Sherman’s and David Salle’s Tapestry Paintings will be the first exhibition.
31 May 2016 • Syndicate
The grotesqueness of haute couture and high society come alive in the self-portraits of one the most influential photo artists of the late 20th century
24 November 2014 • Mark Westall
Shapero Modern is to present as its inaugural exhibition, Natural Selection, a group show highlighting the importance of the study of nature from the Seventeenth Century to the present day.
14 August 2014 • Mark Westall
WIN a pack of Artists’ Trump Cards
14 August 2014 • Mark Westall
You can now pit your favourite artists against each other,
30 January 2014 • Mark Westall
Yesterday Cindy Sherman was Barneys New York official photographer for the day …
27 November 2013 • Mark Westall
Art / Fashion in the 21st Century : Art Book Review
15 November 2013 • Mark Westall
Has Lady Gaga used the music industry as a mere platform for her work as a performance artist?
12 November 2013 • Mark Westall
Skarstedt to open a Chelsea gallery, adding to their two existing locations in New York’s upper east side and London.
29 October 2013 • Mark Westall
Previously a milk depository, the Dairy Art Centre in London shows the cream of contemporary-art from around the world.
27 June 2013 • Mark Westall
American contemporary artists Cindy Sherman and Faith Ringgold, Burberry Chief Creative Officer Christopher Bailey and architect Eva Ji?i?ná are all… Read More