Is Cindy Sherman a feminist artist? Is Cindy Sherman a feminist?

Cindy Sherman’s work is often interpreted as feminist art since her works raise questions regarding the objectification of women by the male gaze and the construction of the female gender.

Sherman’s photographs challenge the representation of women. However, Sherman herself has been noncommittal when it comes to analyzing her work through an academic lens.

Cindy Sherman returned to ironic commentary upon clichéd female identities in the 1990s, introducing mannequins into some of her photographs. In 1997 she directed the dark comedic film Office Killer.

Cindy Sherman continued these juxtapositions in a 2000 series of photographs in which she posed as Hollywood women with overblown makeup and silicone breast implants, again achieving a result of enigmatic pathos.

Apart from various group exhibitions, Sherman’s artwork has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (1982), Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (1987), Kunsthalle Basel (1991), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. (1995), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1998), the Serpentine Gallery in London and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (2003),  and Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin (2007), among others.