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Metrograph’s At Home With… Lynn Hershman Leeson selects The Image of Dorian Gray in the Yellow Press

Lynn Hershman Leeson selects The Image of Dorian Gray in the Yellow Press by Ulrike Ottinger (1984) for Metrograph's monthly film series At Home With... "Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press is an exuberant, wild and over-the-top film by...

Exhibition: Thinking Through Weibel at University of Applied Art Vienna

Thinking Through Weibel gathers key works out of the Peter Weibel Archive and positions them in relation to contemporary practices by invited international artists that unfold through distinct conceptual and material approaches. Attention turns...

Walter Annenberg Lecture: Lynn Hershman Leeson Wed, Nov 5, 2025 6:30 pm

Theater and online, via Zoom Over the last five decades, artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson has made innovative work investigating the relationship between humans and technology, identity, surveillance, and media as a tool of empowerment...

Lynn Hershman Leeson: Private I – event at The Hammer

September 17, 2025 / Career, Current ????, English, Event

Tuesday Nov 18, 2025 7:30 PM Join Leeson and art historian Margot Norton for an evening of video screenings and insights into a revolutionary career and her new book Private ...

Exhibition Announcement: Futures Without Guns at TCNJ Art Gallery

September 3, 2025 / Activism, English, Ethics, Exhibition, Film, Future, No Words

Futures Without Guns Curated by Angela McQuillan Featuring Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Lynn Hershman, Natalie Hijinx, Jasmine Murrell, Wi-Moto Nyoka, Mikael Owunna, Tim Portlock, and Rachel ...

Altman Siegel Announces Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Third Solo Exhibition with the Gallery

August 28, 2025 / Creativity/Technology, Ethics, Event, Exhibition, Future, News

“At the center of Hershman Leeson’s latest exhibition is an antibody engineered to reverse aging… As with previous bodies of work, Hershman Leeson has preempted foundational advancements in technology ...

ZE Books to publish “Private I: A Memoir” By Lynn Hershman Leeson

July 24, 2025 / Career

“Lynn Hershman Leeson’s universe is the super-radical and unstoppably empowered kindergarten of all our wildest dreams: where no limit exists to our optimism and curiosity, where even our intellects can ...

Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991

January 21, 2025 / AI, Biotechnologies, Career, Challenges/Invention, Creativity/Technology, Current ????, Cyborg, Early Career, English, German

"A dialogue emerges between the human and the technological, evoking the hybrid figure of the cyborg. This connection is explored in the exhibition through works that present a new relationship between ...

Lynn Hershman Leeson earns ranking on ArtReview’s Power 100 List for 2024

December 5, 2024 / Accolades, Career, English

"Gauging spheres of influence and schools of thought is about more than momentary fads. The Power 100 list is an annual tally of who and what made art happen during the past 12 months. It’s a structural ...

Vital Signs: Artists and the Body at MoMA

November 3, 2024 / Early Career, English, Exhibition, Identity

“Behind this mask, another mask; I will never be done with removing all these faces,” wrote artist and poet Claude Cahun in 1930. Throughout the 20th century, artists have imagined the body and ideas of ...

Exhibition: Vital Signs Artists and the Body at MoMA, Nov 3, 2024–Feb 22, 2025

October 31, 2024 / English, Exhibition