Biography
Born
1954
Nationality
American
Birth place
Glen Ridge
Cindy Sherman first came to prominence in the late 1970s with her Untitled Film Stills, a series of black and white photographs in which Sherman adopts stereotypical female characters from classic 1950s Hollywood films and B-movies. During the 1980s Sherman continued to examine archetypal images of women, taking on the central role in her images and moving into colour photography. Shaping her own image using a range of disguises including wigs, prosthetics, make-up and costumes, she creates characters drawn from the worlds of cinema, fashion, art history and everyday life. Avoiding self-portraiture, Sherman’s photographs cross the boundary into performance art and show how identities and stereotypes can be adopted and performed.