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

"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 portrait of international contemporary art,...

Vital Signs: Artists and the Body at MoMA

“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 the self as fluid and open to ongoing...

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

“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 the self as fluid and open to ongoing...
Read “Donna Haraway’s Children” in Cultured Magazine

Read “Donna Haraway’s Children” in Cultured Magazine

Lynn Hershman Leeson is quoted in the November 2023 essay by Cassie Packard for Cultured. Read it here.
BAMPFA Announces Lynn Hershman Leeson as 2024 Honoree

BAMPFA Announces Lynn Hershman Leeson as 2024 Honoree

The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive announced on October 26, 2023, that its 2024 gala will pay tribute to Lynn Hershman Leeson and Sky Hopinka, two creative visionaries who have made ...
Lynn Hershman Leeson is a 2024 Creative Capital Artist Honoree

Lynn Hershman Leeson is a 2024 Creative Capital Artist Honoree

The 2024 Creative Capital Benefit + Banquet takes place in New York, NY on September 20th, 2023.
Exhibition: hypertension23

Exhibition: hypertension23

Lynn Hershman Leeson's work is featured in hypertension23 at National Gallery Prague, Fotograf Festival. The exhibition runs from September 21 2023 until February 11 2024.
Exhibition: Extensions of Self

Exhibition: Extensions of Self

Lynn Hershman Leeson's work is featured in Extensions of Self at Francisco Carolinum Linz, Austria. The exhibition runs from September 6 2023 until January 28 2024.
Seduction of a Cyborg Screens at MoMA

Seduction of a Cyborg Screens at MoMA

Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Seduction of a Cyborg (1994) is featured in an exclusive two-week screening at MOMA in July 2023.
Exhibition: Saastamoinen Foundation

Exhibition: Saastamoinen Foundation

Lynn Hershman Leeson's work is featured in an exhibition at Espoo Museum of Modern Art in Espoo, Finland. The exhibition opens on November 24, 2023.
Teknolust Featured by Criterion Collection

Teknolust Featured by Criterion Collection

Teknolust (2002) is featured in Criterion Collection’s July 2023 AI focused lineup. In his review for The Film Experience, Cláudio Alves writes: "This cinematic tasting menu of techno-cinema offers many ...