CINDY SHERMAN

Cindy Sherman, born by the name of Cynthia Morris Sherman, is an American photographer and filmmaker. One of the greatest representatives of postwar photography who exhibited more than three decades of her work at MoMA in New York.

Despite the fact that in most of her photographs she appears herself, she does not consider them self-portraits. Sherman uses herself as a vehicle to represent a wide variety of themes from the contemporary world, such as the role of women or the role of the artist. Through a series of different works, Sherman has raised difficult and important questions about the role and representation of women in society, the media, and the nature of art creation.

AWARDS

In 1995 he was awarded the MacArthur Visual Arts Scholarship.

In 1983 he received the Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Arts, the United States and Canada.

In 2011 he was presented with the glamor Award for The Superstar.

In 2000 he won the Hasselblad Foundation International Prize.

In 2020 she was awarded the Wolf Foundation for the Arts Prize.

BIOGRAPHY

Cindy Sherman was born in Glen Ridge, New York, however her family moved shortly after her birth to Huntington, Long Island, where Sherman grew up being the youngest of five siblings. Unlike other artists, Sherman was not particularly involved in the arts when she was young. Although her parents lack artistic interest, they supported her decision to enter art school after finishing high school.

Cindy Sherman became interested in Visual Arts at the University of Buffalo. In his first year, Sherman started working on painting until one day, he realized it wasn't enough. Frustrated by the limitations of the painting and the feeling that she had done everything she could, she gave up. Sherman returned to photography, which was what he studied for the rest of his time in Buffalo. During this time, he met Robert Longo an artist who will be very important in his life. Along with Longo and fellow student Charles Clough, Sherman formed Hallwalls, an independent artist space where she and other artists exhibited.

After graduation in 1976, she decided to move to New York to fully embark on her artistic career, in a loft on Fulton Street in Lower Manhattan. It was then that she started taking pictures of herself.

During the 1970s, Sherman played a leading role in the feminist restructuring of the body, a movement originated and maintained by women.

Sherman herself created countless characters with which to be overwhelmed by the number of faces and bodies she was able to build using her own body. Her importance as an artist lies in this overwhelming. In his deliberate attempt to reveal the interpretive nature of the female psyche, acquiring multiple and varied faces.

In her most recent works, we see an older artist who continues to stir the archetype of women in society.

BEST PHOTOS

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These are some of the photographs that make up his most famous photographic series made in 1977 (Untitled Film Stills), which is still today the best known and widely distributed.

These are untitled frames in which he assembles a scene that visually and narratively refers to the cinema. More specifically, the Untitled Film Stills series refers to the visual language of cinema from the 1940s and 1950s.

In these, Sherman recovered the cinematographic models of representation of women, to offer a reading, through his self-portraits, about the feminine condition in the contemporary world, thus granting women a central role in the 1970s.These photographs can be confused with portraits but they are something very different. In each of these photographs, Sherman plays a role, a self-made fiction in which he poses adopting stereotypical female roles: housewife, prostitute, woman in danger, crying woman, dancer and actress.