Current Exhibitions and Screenings
Manual Override
The Shed
New York, New York
November 13, 2019 – January 2020
theshed.org
Anozero – Coimbra Biennial of Contemporary Art
Coimbra, Portugal
November 2 – December 29, 2019
anozero-bienaldecoimbra.ptt
Writing the History of the Future
ZKM | Center for Art and Media
Karslruhe, Germany
Ongoing from February 2019
zkm.de
Current Projects
Feature on Art21
Lynn Hershman Leeson is at once a pointed critic and a sly practical jokester, as she explores the roles that technology, media, and artifice play in society. This episode surveys the artist’s richly varied body of work, from her early performances as the fictional character Roberta Breitmore to the more recent VertiGhost, a work incorporating surveillance video and sculpture that offers a feminist riff on Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo.” Overlooked for the better part of her decades-long career, Leeson is now recognized as a pioneering multidisciplinary artist and critiques the gender biases that excluded her and other women artists.