Cynthia Morris Sherman (born 1954) is an American artist whose work consists primarily of photographic self-portraits in which she depicts herself in various situations and in various imaginary ways. Her ground breaking work is a series of 70 black-and-white photographs of her performance that evokes typical female roles in media (particularly art house films and popular B-movies). It is believed to be a collection called “Untitled Film Stills”. In the 1980s, she used colour film and large prints, focusing on costume, lighting, and facial expression. Sherman was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey in 1954, the youngest of five children of Dorothy and Charles Sherman. Shortly after she was born, her family moved to Huntington Township, Long Island. Her father worked as an engineer for Grumman Aircraft. Her mother taught reading to children with learning disabilities. Sherman said that her mother was very well behaved and that her father was strict and cruel. She was raised in an episcopal manner.

She challenges her audience to think about the fluidity and malleability of identity by subverting traditional gender roles. Her photographs invite us to consider how society shapes and imposes gender norms on individuals. Cindy Sherman’s work questions images and the authenticity of the self.  To create her images, she assumes the multiple roles of photographer, model, makeup artist, hairdresser, and stylist. Whether portraying a career girl, a blond bombshell, a fashion victim, a clown, or a society lady of a certain age, for over thirty-five years this relentlessly adventurous artist has created an eloquent and provocative body of work that resonates deeply in our visual culture.

Sherman works in collection, and every of her our bodies of labour is self-contained and internally coherent; but there are issues which have recurred during her career. The exhibition showcases the artist`s person collection and additionally provides works grouped thematically round such not un usual place threads as cinema and performance; horror and the grotesque; myth, carnival, and fairy tales; and gender and sophistication identity.

Sherman`s ground-breaking pictures have interrogated issues round illustration and identification in current media for over 4 decades. Since the early 2000s, Sherman has built personae with virtual manipulation, shooting the fractured experience of self in current society—a problem the artist has uniquely encapsulated from the outset of her career. As critic and curator Gabriele Schor writes on her method, `Sherman`s complicated evaluation of her face and her diffused employment of expression shows that the running technique of creating up and costuming the self allows processes: an intuitive and fluid method stimulated with the aid of using curiosity, and an meant method whose stimulus is conceptual and which has a ‘problem matter’.

Cindy Sherman’s photographs is a perfect example of femininity because it shows how girls are and what they normally do. For example the image above shows Cindy Sherman is looking at herself in the mirror and getting ready which is what girls love to do. And the last image shows that she is cooking which is also connected to femininity because back in the days women’s would always be the ones cooking and sometimes till this day its still same.