Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #19, 1978

Cindy Sherman


Untitled Film Still #19, 1978*
Photograph
8 x 10 inches
acquired 1999

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Biography

Born in 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey.

Sherman earned a BA from Buffalo State College, State University of New York (1976). In self-reflexive photographs and films, Cindy Sherman invents myriad guises, metamorphosing from Hollywood starlet to clown to society matron. Often with the simplest of means—a camera, a wig, makeup, an outfit—Sherman fashions ambiguous but memorable characters that suggest complex lives that exist outside of the frame.

Awards

1995 MacArthur Fellowship
1999 Hasselblad Award

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