"Last Week! Cindy Sherman: Retrospective"
1999-06-04 until 1999-08-30
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Sydney, , AU Australia

The photographic work of American artist Cindy Sherman, hailed as one of the most important artists of her generation, traces her career from her first significant body of work in the late 1970s through to the present.

A touring exhibition jointly organised by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.The exhibition has already been shown at MOCA, Los Angeles; MCA, Chicago; Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague; Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon; CAPC Musee dart Contemporain, Bordeaux. After its Sydney season, the tour will continue to the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. > A touring exhibition jointly organised by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.The exhibition has already been shown at MOCA, Los Angeles; MCA, Chicago; Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague; Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon; CAPC Musee dart Contemporain, Bordeaux. After its Sydney season, the tour will continue to the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. >Sherman’s work has made an important contribution to the rise of photography and mass-media techniques and imagery within contemporary art. Beginning with her Untitled Film Stills and continuing through her Centerfolds, Fashion, Disaster, Fairy Tales and History Portraits, Sherman explores constructions of female identity through staged and manipulated photographs. In more recent series, such as Civil War and Sex Pictures, Sherman has used grotesque imagery that functions as an ambiguous social commentary.

A touring exhibition jointly organised by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.The exhibition has already been shown at MOCA, Los Angeles; MCA, Chicago; Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague; Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon; CAPC Musee dart Contemporain, Bordeaux. After its Sydney season, the tour will continue to the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. >Sherman’s work has made an important contribution to the rise of photography and mass-media techniques and imagery within contemporary art. Beginning with her Untitled Film Stills and continuing through her Centerfolds, Fashion, Disaster, Fairy Tales and History Portraits, Sherman explores constructions of female identity through staged and manipulated photographs. In more recent series, such as Civil War and Sex Pictures, Sherman has used grotesque imagery that functions as an ambiguous social commentary.

A touring exhibition jointly organised by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.The exhibition has already been shown at MOCA, Los Angeles; MCA, Chicago; Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague; Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon; CAPC Musee dart Contemporain, Bordeaux. After its Sydney season, the tour will continue to the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. > A touring exhibition jointly organised by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.The exhibition has already been shown at MOCA, Los Angeles; MCA, Chicago; Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague; Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon; CAPC Musee dart Contemporain, Bordeaux. After its Sydney season, the tour will continue to the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. >Sherman’s work has made an important contribution to the rise of photography and mass-media techniques and imagery within contemporary art. Beginning with her Untitled Film Stills and continuing through her Centerfolds, Fashion, Disaster, Fairy Tales and History Portraits, Sherman explores constructions of female identity through staged and manipulated photographs. In more recent series, such as Civil War and Sex Pictures, Sherman has used grotesque imagery that functions as an ambiguous social commentary.

A touring exhibition jointly organised by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.The exhibition has already been shown at MOCA, Los Angeles; MCA, Chicago; Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague; Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon; CAPC Musee dart Contemporain, Bordeaux. After its Sydney season, the tour will continue to the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.

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