Cindy Sherman is an American. Cynthia Morris Sherman was born on January 19, 1954, in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, in the United States of America.
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Cindy Sherman enrolled in the visual arts department at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo in 1972 where she began painting, later switching her major to photography.

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.
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Cindy Sherman serves on the artistic advisory committee of the New York City-based Stephen Petronio Company and the Artists Committee of the Americans for the Arts.
In 2006, Cindy Sherman created a series of fashion advertisements for designer Marc Jacobs. For Balenciaga, Sherman created the six-image series Cindy Sherman: Untitled (Balenciaga) in 2008.


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