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Cindy Sherman

CINDY SHERMAN

Cindy Sherman. 1977–1982 Hauser & Wirth 4 May–29 July 2022 New York, 69th Street
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With her early work, Cindy Sherman revolutionised the role of the camera in artistic practice and opened the door for generations of artists and critics to rethink photography as a medium. On 4 May 2022, Hauser & Wirth New York will present over a hundred works from Sherman’s most groundbreaking and influential early series–including the Untitled Film Stills, Rear Screen Projections and Centerfolds–in her first major solo exhibition with the gallery.

Preferring to work alone, Sherman was not only the photographer, but also took on the role of makeup artist, hairdresser, stylist, and director–casting herself as the star of heavily staged, fictional tableaux. Inspired by depictions of women in television, film, and advertising, her characters explored a range of female stereotypes–femme-fatale, career-girl, housewife, et cetera–to confront the nature of identity and representation in the media in a way that still feels fresh and relevant today. Created over 40 years ago, these powerful, enigmatic bodies of work are touchstones of contemporary art that continue to inspire and influence the course of art and image-making.

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Born in 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Cindy Sherman lives and works in New York NY. Her ground-breaking photographs have interrogated themes around representation and identity in contemporary media for over four decades. Coming to prominence in the late 1970s with the Pictures Generation group alongside artists such as Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince and Louise Lawler, Sherman studied art at Buffalo State College in 1972 where she turned her attention to photography. In 1977, shortly after moving to New York, Sherman began her critically acclaimed ‘Untitled Film Stills’. A suite of 69 black and white portraits, ‘Untitled Film Stills’ sees Sherman impersonate a myriad of stereotypical female characters and caricatures inspired by Hollywood pictures, film noir, and B movies. Using a range of costumes, props and backdrops to manipulate her own appearance and to create photographs resembling promotional film images, the series explores the tension between artifice and identity in consumer culture which has preoccupied the artist’s practice ever since.

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Cindy Sherman Hauser & Wirth 13 October–23 December 2026 London
About the Gallery

Hauser & Wirth was founded in 1992 in Zurich by Iwan Wirth, Manuela Wirth and Ursula Hauser, who were joined in 2000 by Partner and Vice President Marc Payot. A family business with a global outlook, Hauser & Wirth has expanded over the past 26 years to include outposts in Hong Kong, London, New York, Los Angeles, Somerset and Gstaad. The gallery represents over 70 artists and estates who have been instrumental in shaping its identity over the past quarter century, and who are the inspiration for Hauser & Wirth’s diverse range of activities that engage with art, education, conservation and sustainability.

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32 East 69th Street
New York
United States
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Tuesday – Saturday
10am – 6pm
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New York 32 East 69th Street
Hauser Wirth contemporary art gallery in New York 69th Street United States
Hauser & Wirth
32 East 69th Street, New York, United States
+1 212 794 4970
http://www.hauserwirth.com

Opening hours
Tuesday – Saturday
10am – 6pm
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