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Cindy Sherman

born 1954 (living in 2025 source)

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born 1954 (living in 2025 source)

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Cynthia Morris Sherman

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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).

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  • WikiArt women artists review — 20 September 2026

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