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Cindy Sherman

1954 - Today

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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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cindy Sherman has received more than 2,046,079 page views. Her biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Cindy Sherman is the 795th most popular painter (down from 788th in 2019), the 2,599th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,706th in 2019) and the 26th most popular American Painter.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Cindy Sherman ranks 795 out of 2,023. Before her are Willem van de Velde the Younger, Andrea di Bonaiuto da Firenze, Félix Ziem, Ercole de' Roberti, Marie Krøyer, and Esaias van de Velde. After her are Liang Kai, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Heinrich Aldegrever, Andrea Appiani, Jan Fyt, and Wen Zhengming.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Cindy Sherman ranks 107. Before her are Annie Sprinkle, Abdelilah Benkirane, Dieter Müller, Chris Noth, Pat Metheny, and Prince Ernst August of Hanover. After her are Trevor Berbick, Steven Pinker, Francisco Guterres, Neil Tennant, Joey DeMaio, and Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Cindy Sherman ranks 2,599 out of 20,380. Before her are John Philip Sousa (1854), Matthew Ridgway (1895), George Kelly (1905), Ben Johnson (1918), John Glover (1944), and Alicia Rhett (1915). After her are Jennifer Coolidge (1961), Ned Beatty (1937), Marc Anthony (1968), Melissa Leo (1960), Mike Markkula (1942), and Bill Hewlett (1913).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Cindy Sherman ranks 26. Before her are John Frederick Kensett (1816), Thomas Eakins (1844), Cy Twombly (1928), Julian Schnabel (1951), Bruce Nauman (1941), and Donald Judd (1928). After her are Dorothea Tanning (1910), Asher Brown Durand (1796), Andrew Wyeth (1917), Helen Frankenthaler (1928), Beatrice Wood (1893), and Henry Hill (1943).

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