Cindy Sherman was born in 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, and grew up in Huntington, New York. Her father, a passionate camera collector, worked as an engineer, and her mother was a teacher. She lives and works in New York. She studied painting at the University of Buffalo where she made paintings from photographs. She received her first camera at the age of ten. In the fall of 1972, she began her studies in the Art Department at the State University of New York in Buffalo. Initially, she was interested in painting, drawing, and sculpture; however, she quickly discovered photography as an artistic medium. A catalog raisonné of the photographic works she created at the university was published in 2012. During her studies, in 1974, she co-founded the independent art gallery Hallwalls in Buffalo with her friends Charles Clough and Robert Longo; the gallery still exists today, and she exhibited there for the first time in 1976. Sherman is now considered part of the Pictures Generation, which also includes Louise Lawler, Barbara Kruger, Sherrie Levine, and Richard Prince, among others. Sherman was not among the five artists featured in the group exhibition Pictures, curated by art critic Douglas Crimp in 1977, which marked the beginning of the Pictures Generation. However, Douglas Crimp mentioned her in his revised version of the catalog text for Pictures, which appeared in the art journal October in 1979.In 1976, she graduated from college and subsequently moved to New York City, where she still lives and works today. She was married twice to video artist Michel Auder; both marriages ended in divorce. He is the only person other than herself to appear in her photographs. She begins her work by disguising herself into different characters and then abandons the "photo-novel" to work on more complex constructions with a more sophisticated chromatism and decor. In the 90 years, she used mannequins, prostheses, thus inventing monstrous characters. In 1999, ARTnews magazine named her one of the “10 Best Living Artists.” Sherman’s photographs are among the most expensive works on the art market in the field of photography. In 2007, a work was sold at Christie’s auction house for $2.85 million. In 2012, the Museum of Modern Art in New York presented a large-scale exhibition titled Cindy Sherman: A Retrospective.In recent years, Sherman has also explored the use of artificial intelligence in her work: she uses apps and AI tools to distort her facial features and explore new artistic possibilities. Sherman sees both potential and dangers in AI, particularly in the form of deepfakes, which she finds potentially threatening; at the same time, she uses AI to expand her creativity, although she is frustrated that the results fall short of her expectations.