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Cindy 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). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Cindy Sherman is the 666th most popular painter (up from 795th in 2019), the 2,504th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,599th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular American Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Cindy Sherman ranks 666 out of 2,023. Before her are Franz von Bayros, Pierre Soulages, Bartholomeus van der Helst, Jan Toorop, Leonid Pasternak, and Jannis Kounellis. After her are Nicolas de Staël, Jack Butler Yeats, Juan Sánchez Cotán, Achille Devéria, Jean-Baptiste Isabey, and Mikhail Nesterov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Cindy Sherman ranks 95. Before her are Seka, Eric Gerets, Andrei Karlov, Hrant Dink, Jermaine Jackson, and Roberto Dinamite. After her are Katsuhiro Otomo, Ray Parker Jr., Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Lorraine Bracco, Milan Martić, and Alejandro Sabella.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Cindy Sherman ranks 2,504 out of 20,380. Before her are Patricia Cornwell (1956), Robert Sternberg (1949), Bob Fosse (1927), Joe Pantoliano (1951), Michael Jeter (1952), and Sam Houston (1793). After her are Charles Bachman (1924), Gene Roddenberry (1921), Jessye Norman (1945), Peggy Lee (1920), Jane Darwell (1879), and Don Taylor (1920).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Cindy Sherman ranks 22. Before her are Frank Stella (1936), Dorothea Tanning (1910), Helen Frankenthaler (1928), Will Sampson (1933), Sol LeWitt (1928), and Thomas Eakins (1844). After her are Margaret Keane (1927), Jasper Johns (1930), Andrew Wyeth (1917), John Sloan (1871), Julian Schnabel (1951), and Robert Reid (1862).

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