Born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey.
State University College at Buffalo, New York
Lives in New York City.

Selected One-person Exhibitions:
1980
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (brochure)
Metro Pictures, New York (and 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1987,
1989, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2004)
1982
Cindy Sherman," The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Gewad,
Ghent, Belgium; Watershed Gallery, Bristol, England; John
Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, England; Palais
Stutterheim, Erlangen, West Germany; Haus am Waldsee, West Berlin; Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva; Sonja Henie-Niels Onstadt Foundation, Copenhagen; Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark (catalogue)
“Cindy Sherman,” Deja Vu, Dijon, France (cat.)
1983
Musee d'Art et d'Industrie de Saint Etienne, France (cat.)
The St. Louis Art Museum, Missouri (broch.)
1984
"Cindy Sherman," Akron Art Museum; Institute of Contemporary
Art, Philadelphia; Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania; Des Moines Art Center; The Baltimore Museum of
Art (cat.)
Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne (and 1988, 1990, 1992, 1995,
1999)
1985
Westfalischer Kunstverein, Munster, West Germany (cat.)
1987
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Institute of
Contemporary Art, Boston; The Dallas Museum of Art (cat.)
1989
National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand; Waikato Museum
of Art and History, New Zealand (cat.)
1990
Padiglione d'arte Contemporanea, Milan (cat.)
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley
1991
"Cindy Sherman," Basel Kunsthalle, Switzerland; Staatsgalerie
Moderner Kunst, Munich; The Whitechapel Gallery, London
(cat.)
Milwaukee Art Museum; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami; The
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (broch.)
1992
Museo de Monterrey, Mexico (cat.)
1993
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1994
"Cindy Sherman," ACC Galerie Weimar, Germany (cat.)
"Cindy Sherman," Manchester City Art Gallery
"Cindy Sherman," The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (cat.)
1995
"Directions: Cindy Sherman-Film Stills," Hirshhorn Museum,
Washington, D.C. (brochure)
"Cindy Sherman Photographien 1975-1995," Deichtorhallen
Hamburg; Malmo Kunsthall, Sweden; Kunstmuseum Luzerne,
Switzerland (cat.)
"Cindy Sherman," Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil
(cat.)
1996
"Cindy Sherman," Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam;
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Sala de
Exposiciones REKALDE, Bilbao; Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden
Baden (cat.)
"Cindy Sherman," Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan;
Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art,
Marugame, Japan; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (cat.)
"Metamorphosis: Cindy Sherman Photographs," The Cleveland
Museum of Art, Cleveland
1997
"Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills," Museum of
Modern Art, New York
“Cindy Sherman: A Selection From the Eli Broad Foundation's
Collection,” Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela (cat.)
"Cindy Sherman: Retrospective," Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Galerie
Rudolfinum, Prague; capc Musée, Bordeaux; Museum of
Contemporary Art, Sydney; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (1997
2000)
"Cindy Sherman," Museum Ludwig, Cologne (cat.)
1998
“Allegories,” Seattle Art Museum, Washington (cat.)
2000
Hasselblad Center, Goteburg, Sweden
Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles
Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid
greengrassi, London
2001
“Cindy Sherman: Early Works,” Studio Guenzani, Milan
“Cindy Sherman,” Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
2003
“Cindy Sherman, Centerfolds, 1981,” Skarstedt Fine Art, New York
“Cindy Sherman,” Serpentine Gallery, London; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
2004
“The Unseen Cindy Sherman - Early Transformations 1975/1976,” Montclair Art Museum, Montclair,
New Jersey (cat.)
“Clowns,” Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, Germany (cat.)
2004-2005
“Clowns,” Sprüth Magers Lee, London.

Selected Group Exhibitions:
1982
"Documenta 7," Kassel, West Germany (cat.)
"Eight Artists: The Anxious Edge," Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis, Minnesota (cat.)
“La Biennale di Benezia,” Venice (cat.)
1983
"Directions 1983," Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C. (cat.)
"1983 Biennial Exhibition," Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York (cat.)
"The New Art," The Tate Gallery, London
1984
"Alibis," Centre Pompidou, Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris (cat.)
"Content: A Contemporary Focus, 1974-84," Hirshhorn Museum,
Washington D.C. (cat.)
"The Fifth Biennale of Sydney, Private Symbol: Social Metaphor,"
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (cat.)
1985
"1985 Carnegie International," Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh (cat.)
"1985 Biennial Exhibition," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (cat.)
1986
"Art and Its Double: A New York Perspective," Fundacio Caixa de
Pensions, Barcelona; La Caixa de Pensions, Madrid (cat.)
"Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art, 1945
1986," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, (cat.)
"The American Exhibition," The Art Institute of Chicago (cat.)
1987
"Avant-Garde in the Eighties," Los Angeles County Museum of
Art (cat.)
"Implosion: A Postmodern Perspective," Moderna Museet,
Stockholm (cat.)
1989
"A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation," The
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (cat.)
"Bilderstreit," Mense Rhineside Halls, Cologne
"Image World: Art and Media Culture," Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York (cat.)
1990
"Culture and Commentary," The Hirshhorn Museum,
Washington, D.C. (cat.)
"Energies," The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (cat.)
"The Readymade Boomerang," Eighth Biennial of Sydney (cat.)
1991
“1991 Biennial Exhibition,” Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York (cat.)
"Metropolis," Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (cat.)
1992
"Post Human," Musée d'Art Contemporain, Pully/Lausanne,
Switzerland; Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Deste Foundation, Athens;
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; Israel Museum, Jerusalem (cat.)
1993
"Louise Lawler, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons,"
Kunsternes Hus, Oslo; Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
(cat.)
“1993 Biennial Exhibition,” Whitney Museum of American
Art,New York (cat.)
"American Art of This Century," Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin;
Royal Academy of Arts, London (cat.)
1994
"World Morality," Kunsthalle, Basel (cat.)
"Body and Soul," The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland
"Jurgen Klauke - Cindy Sherman," Sammlung Goetz, Munich
(cat.)
1995
"Projections," Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto
"1995 Biennial Exhibition," Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York (cat.)
"Zeichen & Wunder," Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland (cat.)
"XLVI Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte 1995," La Biennale di
Venezia, Venice (cat.)
"FeminiMasculin: Le Sexe de l'Art?," Centre Georges Pompidou,
Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris (cat.)
"1995 Carnegie International," The Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh (cat.)
1996
"L'Informe: le Modernisme a Rebours," Centre Georges
Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris (cat.)
"Hall of Mirrors: Art and Film Since 1945," The Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Wexner Center for the Arts,
Columbus, Ohio; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome; The Museum
of Contemporary Art, Chicago (cat.)
Biennale di Firenze, Florence, Italy (cat.)
1997
"Gender Performnce in Photography," Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum, New York (cat.)
"On the Edge: Contemporary Art from the Werner and Elaine
Dannheisser Collection," The Museum of Modern Art, New York
(cat.)
"Von Beuys bis Cindy Sherman Sammlung Lothar Schirmer,"
Kunsthalle, Bremen (cat.)
1998
“Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism and Self-Representation,”
MIT List Center, Cambridge, Massachussettes; Miami Art
Museum; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1999
"Gesammelte Werke 1: Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1968,"
Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg
"Notorious," Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
"The American Century," Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York (cat.)
"Inverted Odysseys," Grey Art Gallery, New York (cat.)
"The Century of the Body: Photoworks 1900-2000," Musée de
l'Elysée, Lisbon "Triennale Exhibition: Sentiment of the year
2000," Triennale di Milano, Milan
"Regarding Beauty," Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. (cat.)
2000
"Let's Entertain," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, (cat.); Centre
Georges Pompidou, Paris; Portland Art Musuem, Oregon; Museo
Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico (cat.); Kunstmuseum
Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany (2001); Miami Art Museum,
Miami (2001)
“Open Ends,” Museum of Modern Art, New York
“Hyper Mental,” Kunsthaus Zürich (November 17, 2000- January
21, 2001); Hamburger Kunsthalle (February 16- May 6, 2001)
(cat.)
2001
“Double Life,” Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria (cat.)
“Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad
Collections,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art (cat.); Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston (2002)
“ABBILD: Recent Portraiture and Depiction,” Landesmuseum
Joanneum, Graz, Austria (cat.)
2002
"Tableaux Vivants," Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (cat.)
"Hautnah- The Goetz Collection," Museum Villa Stuck, Munich
(cat.)
"Moving Pictures," Solomon R. Guggenhein Museum, New York
"Ahead of the 21st Century– The Pisces Collection," Fürstenberg
Sammlungen, Donaueschingen, Germany (cat.)
“Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum
of American Art,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
(cat.)
“Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain,” Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago (cat.)
2003
“Pletskud,” Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Skøvej, Germany
“The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982,”
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; UCLA Hammer Museum,
Los Angeles, CA (cat.)
“Artist's Choice: Mona Hatoum, Here Is Elsewhere,” Museum of
Modern Art, New York
2004
“Fashioning Fiction – In Photographing Since 1990,” Museum of
Modern Art, New York (cat.)
“La Grande Parade – Portrait de L'artiste en Clown,” Galeries
nationals du Grand Palais, Paris; national Gallery of Canada,
Ottawa
“Disparities & Deformations – Our Grotesque,” 5th International
Site Santa Fe Bienniale, Site Santa Fe, New Mexico (cat.)

Film and Video Direction:
1997
"Office Killer," feature-film starring Molly Ringwald, Carol Kane,
Jeanne Tripplehorn, Barbara Sukowa, Good Machine and
Kardana/Swinsky Films

Documentaries:
1994
"Nobody's Here But Me," a 55 minute Cinecontact production
for the BBC and the Arts Council of England, Director: Mark
Stokes, producer: Robert Mcnab

Selected Museum and Public Collections:
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Art Institute of Chicago
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Baltimore Museum of Art
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
Des Moines Art Center
Hamburger Bahnhof Museum fur Gegenwart, Berlin
Israeli Museum, Jerusalem
Kunsthaus, Zurich
Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Musée d'art Contemporain, Montréal
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Museum des 20, Jahrhunderts, Vienna
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, Luxembourg
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Conneticut
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, Holland
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Sprengel Museum, Hannover
St. Louis Art Museum
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Tamayo Museum, Mexico City
Tate Gallery, London
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York