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Lynn Hershman Leeson

Over the last five decades, artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson has received international acclaim for her art and films. She is recognized for her innovative work investigating issues that are now recognized as key to the workings of society: the relationship between humans and technology, identity, surveillance, and the use of media as a tool of empowerment against censorship and political repression. She is considered one of the most influential media artists and has made pioneering contributions in photography, video, film, performance, installation and interactive as well as net-based media art.

Lynn Hershman Leeson's retrospective exhibition CIVIC RADAR, organized and produced in 2014 by the ZKM (Center for New Media Art), Karlsruhe, Germany, acknowledged her contribution to the global new media arts community and was enthusiastically received as it evolved into other museum presentations including Modern Art Oxford, the Lehmbruck Museum, and the Deichtorhallen Hamburg/Sammlung Falckenberg. Providing an overview of her pioneering work in video, film, and web-based art, the exhibitions earned wide critical acclaim and spurred accessions by international museums.

Hershman Leeson is featured in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Tate Modern, among others.  She was the recipient of a Siggraph Lifetime Achievement Award, Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica, and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. In 2017 she received a USA Artist Fellowship and the San Francisco Film Society’s “Persistence of Vision” award. In February 2018 she was awarded the College Art Association’s “Distinguished Feminist Award” and the National Women’s Caucus for Art “Lifetime Achievement Award.”

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Selected Press:
Art21 episode "San Francisco Bay Area"
Tate Etc. Summer 2018
Topical Cream March 2018
CAA Distinguished Feminist Award
Cultured Magazine December 2017
Hyperallergic 2018 - First Person Plural 
Berlin Art Link 2018 - First Person Plural 
ArtSpace - The Other Art History: The Forgotten Cyberfeminists of '90s Net Art

Lynn Hershman, Untitled,

Wax, feather, 10” x 10” x 16 1/4”

Lynn Hershman Leeson, Woman with Floating Heart, 1964, Watercolor, pen and pencil on paper bag, 4 3/4 x 9 in.

Lynn Hershman, Venus of the Anthropocene, 2017

Facial recognition software, anatomical model, plastic bottles, mirror, mac mini, 30” x 35” x 75” (approx)

Lynn Hershman Leeson, Xray Woman in Bathing Cap (XRay Woman 2), 1961, Acrylic, graphite, and spray paint on plywood, 29 x 23 in.

Lynn Hershman
Score Keeper 2, 2012

mixed media with digital print on mirror 18” x 14” paper, 24” x 20” matte

Lynn Hershman Leeson, Roberta Construction Chart 1,from Roberta Breitmore series, 1975

Chromogenic print 24” x 16”, Fr. 32” x 26”

Lynn Hershman, Water Woman with Twins, 2004

Archival digital print on aluminum, 39 1/2” x 29 1/2” (Framed)

Lynn Hershman Leeson

Lynn Hershman Leeson, Unfile Me, 2017, Front, Mixed media collage, 10 x 11 in.

Lynn Hershman Leeson, Untitled (LH1865/ NFW 174), early 1970s

Embossed silver board, 13 1/4 x 11 1/4 in.

Lynn Hershman, Untitled (Figure with Animal), 1972

Mixed media on paper, 28” x 22”

Lynn Hershman Leeson, Man of Iron & Woman of Electra, 1984, Ink and watercolor, 16 1/2 x 13 1/2 in.

Lynn Hershman Leeson, Time Passages, c.1965, Ink and watercolor, 20 1/2 x 27 in.

Lynn Hershman - Roberta's Construction

Chart #2 (Suggested Alterations), 1975

Lynn Hershman Leeson, Lorna, 1984.

Installation view of Lynn Hershman Leeson: Civic Radar, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2017. Photo by John Foster Cartwright. Courtesy Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.

Lynn Hershman
Score Keeper, 2012

mixed media with pin and digital print on mylar, 18” x 14” paper

Lynn Hershman Leeson, Untitled (LH1872), 1971, Graphite and spray paint on illustration board, 38 x 25 1/2 in.

Lynn Hershman Leeson - Make Me Look Natural, 2013

Mixed media on canvas 56” x 43 3/4”

Lynn Hershman
Invasion, 1988

Gelatin Silver Print 24” x 20”

Lynn Hershman, Water Woman Violet Shadow, 2005

Archival digital print, 48 1/2” x 35”

Lynn Hershman Leeson, Roberta Breitmore series, 1973–78.

Installation view of Lynn Hershman Leeson: Civic Radar, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2017. Photo by John Foster Cartwright. Courtesy Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.

Lynn Hershman Leeson, The Infinity Engine, 2014–17.

Installation view of Lynn Hershman Leeson: Civic Radar, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2017. Photo by John Foster Cartwright. Courtesy Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.

Lynn Hershman Leeson - Camerawoman, 1988

Gelatin silver print 16" x 20" uf, Edition of 8

Lynn Hershman Leeson, The Infinity Engine, 2014–17.

Installation view of Lynn Hershman Leeson: Civic Radar, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2017. Photo by John Foster Cartwright. Courtesy Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.

Lynn Hershman Leeson - Reach, 1988

Gelatin Silver Print 40” x 30”

Lynn Hershman - Seduction, 1988

Silver Print Courtesy the artist and Anglim Gilbert Gallery

Lynn Hershman, Digital Venus, 1996

Archival digital print, 36 1/2” x 48” (Framed)

Lynn Hershman, Segregated Landscape, 1978

mixed media collage with digital print and mirror, 10 1/2” x 13”, 17” x 19 1/2” framed. NOT FOR SALE

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