Cindy Sherman was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, on January 19, 1954. Cindy's family relocated to Huntington, Long Island, shortly after her birth, where she grew up as the youngest of five children. Sherman studied in Buffalo from 1972 to 1976; she began as a painter, but immediately became disenchanted by what she saw as the medium's limits. Sherman's focus switched to photography. Despite initially failing a mandatory photography class, she subsequently chose to repeat the course, which sparked her interest in the field. Cindy Sherman is now a well-known photographer and filmmaker whose self-portraits criticize gender and identity. In fact, Cindy Sherman photography and Cindy Sherman artwork are now two well-known phenomena in the world.
