Lynn Hershman Leeson

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The following is an archive of written works related to Lynn Hershman Leeson’s career, important exhibitions, and Civic Radar, the most comprehensive exhibition and catalogue of her work to date. It also includes a selection of essays that expose the philosophical underpinnings of Hershman Leeson’s work, written by the artist herself. Text from earlier in the artist’s career is being added over time.

By Sonia Shechet Epstein in Sloan Science & Film

"The whole installation is about mirroring, value, artificiality, and twins. You sit down on a bench in front of my version of the Carlotta painting, which I blurred because it was more interesting, like blurring ...

Lynn Hershman Leeson on Vertigo, DNA and Tilda Swinton

By Jeffrey A. Day for UC Davis

"Internationally renowned artist Lynn Hershman Leeson, UC Davis professor emeritus, is receiving major awards from the College Art Association and the Women’s Caucus for the Arts."

Professor Emeritus Receives Two Major Awards

By Sonia Shechet Epstein in The Brooklyn Rail

"Lynn Hershman Leeson’s film Teknolust (2002)—starring Tilda Swinton as three distinct replicants created by a biogeneticist named Rosetta Stone, who communicates with them through a microwave, was always amazing but ...

Notes on Science and Film

By Sam Whiting in San Francisco Chronicle

"Multiple media artist Lynn Hershman Leeson hired a film crew of 15 or 20, plus three models to play the Novak role, to create VertiGhost. The original San Francisco locations were shot with the same angles and lighting ...

Vertighost Re-creates Hitchcock Film at Legion of Honor With Kim Novak Twist

By Sarah Thornton in Cultured Magazine

"At San Francisco’s Legion of Honor, in the room where Alfred Hitchcock shot Vertigo, you can sit on the bench on which Kim Novak sat and gaze at a portrait that has a GoPro camera hidden behind its eyes."

The Tools of Her Time

Published in Monopol Magazine

"The group show “Affect Me” in Düsseldorf’s Kai 10 presents works that relate to the new pictorial phenomena of social media."

Where to Go on the Weekend?

By Anne Walsh in The Brooklyn Rail

"I arrived in the Bay Area to take a full time teaching job at UC Berkeley in 2003, having spent the previous fifteen years in LA. For a long time, I was homesick for the unapologetic ambition of that sprawling, gaudy version of ...

Why Grow? In Praise of Quiet Influence

Published in The Inquirer

"Female artists have typically gotten short shrift for their roles in creating art movements, so who’s surprised that their numerous contributions to technology-oriented art aren’t especially known?"

UArts Exhibit Celebrates the Women of Tech-Art

In Artlyst

"A major group exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), entitled Cellular World, which will bring together new commissions and existing work by artists including Joseph Buckley, Jamie Crewe, Jesse Darling, Cécile B. Evans, Lynn Hershman-Leeson, ...

Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art Announce Line-Up 2018

By Benjamin Blanchet in The Spectrum

"On Friday evening, the series’ second day opened with films by Sara Gómez and Lynn Hershman-Leeson to a crowd of over 50 attendees."

Cuban Cinema Takes Over Burchfield Penney Art Center

By Anna McNay in Elephant Magazine

"'If you live in the present, most people think you live in the future, because they don’t know what happens in their own time.' Across half a century, Lynn Hershman Leeson’s searching, future-facing work has combined art, ...

Don’t Say “Sci-Fi,” Say “Sci-Tru”

By Kathy Noble in Mousse

"This article explores these ideas in relation to three portraits of individuals who have experienced institutionally inflicted trauma: Luke Willis Thompson’s film of Diamond Reynolds, Lynn Hershman Leeson’s film of Tania ...

From my Institution to Yours