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Announcing Representation of Cindy Sherman
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Photo courtesy of Inez & Vinoodh and Hauser & Wirth.
Artists Rights Society is delighted to announce our representation of Cindy Sherman.
ARS looks forward to working closely with the Cindy Sherman Legacy Project, in collaboration with our sister societies worldwide, to steward the legacy of such influential works of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Through careful rights management, ARS will support the distribution of Sherman’s images to new generations of artists, scholars, and audiences around the globe.
As a member of ARS, Cindy Sherman joins an incredible roster of over 100,000 artists and estates, including Louise Bourgeois, Jasper Johns, Faith Ringgold, Robert Longo, and many others whose work has shaped the course of modern and contemporary art.
Untitled #70, 1980 © 2026 Cindy Sherman / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
About Cindy Sherman
Born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey in 1954, Cindy Sherman is renowned for her groundbreaking photography that interrogates identity, gender, representation, and the construction of self. Best known for her staged photos, Sherman uses her own body to transform, adopting a wide range of guises that expose the visual codes underpinning popular culture, art history, cinema, fashion, and media.
Sherman studied art at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where she earned her BA degree in 1976. Her early Untitled Film Stills series marked a pivotal shift in contemporary photography, challenging traditional notions of female roles by mimicking archetypes without referencing specific films. These works positioned photography as a critical tool for conceptual inquiry.
Over the course of a career spanning more than four decades, Sherman has continuously expanded her visual language, producing further bodies of work that range from historical portraits to grotesque mannequins, and digitally manipulated figures. Her practice resists a fixed identity, instead revealing how subjectivity is shaped by social expectation, performance, and power. Her work remains central to contemporary debates around feminism, media culture, and the politics of the gaze.
Untitled Film Still #58, 1980 © 2026 Cindy Sherman / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
The Cindy Sherman Legacy Project
The Cindy Sherman Legacy Project was created to act as an accessible method to protect the legacy of the photographic medium, and to launch a comprehensive Catalogue Raisonné of the works of Cindy Sherman.
About Artists Rights Society
Artists Rights Society (ARS) is the premiere licensing agency for visual artists in the United States, representing over 122,000 artists. ARS functions as a nexus between the vast and active network of artists, museums, scholars, galleries, journalists, and commercial collaborators. Our unique role in the cultural community, harnessed by our 30+ years of experience in intellectual property matters, enables us to serve as a platform for all artists to empower themselves with knowledge of their legal rights. In support of our mission, we guide artists and collaborators through the often obscure realm of copyright and intellectual property matters with licensing expertise, legal support, advocacy, educational outreach, relationship building, and product development.
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