Cindy Sherman parents: Meet Charles Sherman & Dorothy Sherman

Cindy Sherman was born Cynthia Morris Sherman on January 19, 1954, in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, U.S. She is the youngest of five children of Dorothy and Charles Sherman.

Cindy Sherman’s father worked as an engineer for Grumman Aircraft. Her mother taught reading to children with learning difficulties. Sherman has described her mother as good to a fault, and her father as strict and cruel.

In 1982, Cindy Sherman began her Pink Robes series which includes Untitled #97, #98, #99, and #100. Cindy Sherman ventured into the fashion industry with designs for Prada, Dolce & Gabbana, and Marc Jacobs.

Cindy Sherman has participated in numerous international events, such as SITE Santa Fe (2004); the Venice Biennale (1982, 1995); and five Whitney Biennials. Cindy Sherman created photographs for an editorial in Harper’s Bazaar in 1993.

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.

In 1994, Cindy Sherman produced the Post Card Series for Comme des Garçons for the brand’s autumn/winter 1994–95 collections in collaboration with Rei Kawakubo.