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College Art Association- Congratulations 2026 Awards for Distinction Recipients

Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement
Lynn Hershman Leeson

Private I Nominated by Hans Ulrich Obrist for Hodler Prize 003

"Three books, one film, one exhibition, and one video game—we are delighted to present the second series of works selected by Ottessa Moshfegh, Théo Casciani, Precious Okoyomon, Jean-Max Colard and Hans Ulrich Obrist to compete for the Hodler Prize...

New Museum announces artist list for New Humans: Memories of the Future – artdaily

" The New Museum today announced the complete artist list for New Humans: Memories of the Future, the first exhibition to span the entirety of the expanded New Museum, opening on March 21, 2026. Across the New Museum’s SANAA-designed building and...

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

November 1, 2025 / English, Film, German, Identity

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 ...

Exhibition: Thinking Through Weibel at University of Applied Art Vienna

October 30, 2025 / Early Career, German

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 ...

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

October 9, 2025 / Biotechnologies, Cyborg, Cyborgs, Early Career, Exhibition

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, ...

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 ...