Chloe Sherman

Chloe Sherman was born in 1969, in New York City, and raised by hippie parents who would move the family to Portland, Oregon, where she would grow up. Her move to San Francisco, California was inspired by a zine she read in her hometown bookstore titled Love Bites (1991) by Del LaGrace Volcano. Sherman would later graduate with a BFA degree in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her photographs act as an archive of her life. Shot on 35mm film Sherman took to snapping photos that highlighted her world, the intimacy, community, and resistance from the mainstream. These shots included an emphasis on the butch and femme subculture of the 1990s. However, may of these photos were not made public for roughly thirty years. In 2021, Sherman's daughter saw a photo her mother had taken uncredited on Instagram. This led to her daughter pushing Sherman to create an account and share the work she had done, leading to her eventual exhibitions and publications. == Exhibitions ==