Biography

Cindy Sherman Is an American

photographer and film director.
She is most well-known for her
conceptual portraits. She was
born on January 19th 1954. She
was born the youngest of five
children in Glen Ridge, New
Jersey. Her family soon moved
to Huntington where her father
and mother took up careers as air
craft engineer and a teacher for
children with learning disabilities
respectively. She first showed an
interest in the visual arts when
she attended Buffalo State
College. She initially began with
painting but became quickly
irritated with the Medias
limitations. Not long after she
took up photography. She took
this media and ran far with it.
Around 1974 she worked

together with Charles Clough,

Nancy Dwyer, and Longo to
create Hallwalls. This was an art
institution that doubled as a
space for the accommodation of
diverse artists with unique
backgrounds. She was also very
exposed to contemporary art
exhibited at several other
galleries including the AlbrightKnox Art Gallery. She was
considered to be a catalyst force
in the use of photography in art,
and is considered part of the
Pictures Generation.
Cindy Sherman forged her
reputation strongly as an artist
with an eccentric brand of selfportraiture. She is also well
known for her Untitled Film
Stills which contained a series
of 69 photographs of herself
enacting female clichs. Her
work almost consistently
examines womens roles both in
a historical sense as well as the

way they fit into contemporary

society. One of the things that
makes her work so unique is that
often she is the subject of her
own photographs, one could say
she was an earlier version of
costume selfies.

The way I
see it, as
soon as I

make a
piece Ive
lost
control of
it.
Cindy Sherman