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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...
25 Essential AI Artworks: Agent Ruby

25 Essential AI Artworks: Agent Ruby

“If Ruby gets confused, feel free to tell her.” So read the instructions for Agent Ruby, an online piece that can converse with users. In a chat window, visitors submit their questions to Ruby, who ...
To Exalt the Ephemeral: The (Im)permanent Collection

To Exalt the Ephemeral: The (Im)permanent Collection

To Exalt the Ephemeral: The (Im)permanent Collection draws from BAMPFA’s art and film collections to explore how museums collect, care for, and amplify the work of artists who celebrate ideas of ...
Archive Rooms: Selections from Special Collections at Stanford Libraries – Ongoing

Archive Rooms: Selections from Special Collections at Stanford Libraries – Ongoing

A San Francisco-based filmmaker and multimedia artist, Lynn Hershman Leeson is widely recognized for her prescient work in media-based practices and commentary on the relationship between people and ...
Lynn Hershman Leeson Film Retrospective at MoMA – June 7-20, 2024

Lynn Hershman Leeson Film Retrospective at MoMA – June 7-20, 2024

This retrospective features Hershman Leeson’s complete, four-part “Cyborg Series,” including Cyborgian Rhapsody – Immortality (2023), which was written, performed, and designed by an artificial ...
Seduction of a Cyborg Screens at MAMCO Genève

Seduction of a Cyborg Screens at MAMCO Genève

"In her video Seduction of a Cyborg (1994), technology is illustrated as an infectious disease that destroys a woman’s immune system. A blind protagonist agrees to receive physical treatment to restore ...
Exhibition: GUARDIANS

Exhibition: GUARDIANS

Logic Paralyzes the Heart (2022) and Missing Child Born 2019 (2021) are featured in GUARDIANS at Walburger Gallery in Brussels. The exhibition runs from April 24, 2023 until June 1, 2024. Read more here.
Exhibition: Anti-Aging

Exhibition: Anti-Aging

Lynn Hershman Leeson's work is featured at Bridget Donahue Gallery in New York, NY. The exhibition runs from April 4th to May 18th, 2024.
Lynn Hershman Leeson is an Honoree at the 2024 Museums by Moonlight Gala

Lynn Hershman Leeson is an Honoree at the 2024 Museums by Moonlight Gala

The event, benefitting the Cantor Arts Center and the Anderson Collection at Stanford University, takes place in Stanford, CA on September 14 2023.