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Cindy Sherman

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Also known as Cynthia Morris Sherman

American photographer (born 1954)

OverviewAI-generated

Cindy Sherman is an American person born on January 19, 1954. She is recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection and the Time 100 collection. Her work is available through various platforms, including a profile on fembio.org.

According to Open Library records, Sherman is associated with 21 works. Top titles listed include *The unseen Cindy Sherman*, *Cindy Sherman*, *Art of Being Liz Renay*, *Chuck Close : Red, Yellow, and Blue*, and *Simone Rocha*. Crossref data indicates a count of 5 works. Additionally, she is referenced by 659 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 16 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
21

Top works

  • The unseen Cindy Sherman
  • Cindy Sherman
  • Art of Being Liz Renay
  • Chuck Close : Red, Yellow, and Blue
  • Simone Rocha

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1928-06-12
Active to
2024-05-25

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
19
Total plays
38

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Cindy+Sherman">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Key facts

Born
Cynthia Morris Sherman , ( 1954-01-19 ) January 19, 1954 (age 72) , Glen Ridge, New Jersey , U.S.
Education
SUNY
Occupation
Artist
Known for
Photographic self-portraits
Notable work
Untitled #96 , Untitled #153 , Complete Untitled Film Stills , 1977–1980
Spouse
Michel Auder ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1984 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1999 ) ​
Awards
MacArthur Fellowship

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
female
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Glen Ridge
Occupation
filmmaker
Languages spoken
English language
Participant in
documenta 7
Field of work
photography
Image
Cindy Sherman (cropped).jpg
Work location
United States
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Commons category
Cindy Sherman
birth name
Cynthia Morris Sherman
date of birth
1954-01-19
Commons Creator page
Cindy Sherman
name in native language
Cindy Sherman
has works in the collection
Whitney Museum of American Art
copyright representative
Cindy Sherman
Sources (13)

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Encyclopedic overview

Cynthia Morris Sherman (born January 19, 1954) is an American artist whose work consists primarily of photographic self-portraits, depicting herself in many different contexts and as various imagined characters.

Her breakthrough work is often considered to be the collection Untitled Film Stills, a series of 70 black-and-white photographs of herself evoking typical female roles in performance media (especially arthouse films and popular B-movies).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cindy Sherman” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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