What did Cindy Sherman study?

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.

Following her graduation from SUNY in 1976, Cindy Sherman began work on Untitled Film Stills (1977–80), one of her best-known series. Cindy Sherman and David Byrne were members of Portugal’s Estoril Film Festival’s jury in 2009.

Cindy Sherman’s first solo exhibitions in France were presented by Galerie Chantal Crousel in Paris. Sherman has participated in numerous international events, such as SITE Santa Fe (2004); the Venice Biennale (1982, 1995); and five Whitney Biennials.

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.

Cindy Sherman also had a role in The Feature in 2008 which earned a New Vision Award. Sherman’s initial individual exhibition in New York debuted at The Kitchen, a noncommercial venue, in 1980.