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.
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By Alex Greenberger in Art News
"Tucked away at the back of Vilma Gold gallery’s Armory Show booth is a sculpture that tweets your picture, so you don’t have to do it yourself: Lynn Hershman Leeson’s HYBRID MUTANT #2 (1966–2017). The pictures wind up on the ...
"Tucked away at the back of Vilma Gold gallery’s Armory Show booth is a sculpture that tweets your picture, so you don’t have to do it yourself: Lynn Hershman Leeson’s HYBRID MUTANT #2 (1966–2017). The pictures wind up on the ...
A Lynn Hershman Leeson Sculpture at the Armory Show Takes Your Picture and Tweets It for You
By Alex Greenberger in Art News
“For the artist herself, the attention had been a long time coming. “People say I’ve been rediscovered,” Hershman Leeson told me, “but there’s no re-. I was never discovered before two and a half years ago.” Since then, she has ...
“For the artist herself, the attention had been a long time coming. “People say I’ve been rediscovered,” Hershman Leeson told me, “but there’s no re-. I was never discovered before two and a half years ago.” Since then, she has ...
A New Future from the Passed
By Lara Atallah in The Brooklyn Rail
"Operating at the confluence of technology and visual arts, Lynn Hershman Leeson’s practice has been heralded as pioneering. Much of her work is a product of second-wave feminism that came about in the 1960s, at a time where ...
"Operating at the confluence of technology and visual arts, Lynn Hershman Leeson’s practice has been heralded as pioneering. Much of her work is a product of second-wave feminism that came about in the 1960s, at a time where ...
Lynn Hershman Leeson: Remote Controls
By Marnie Schleicher in SF Weekly
"Dressed all in black, Johnny Cash-style — black jacket, black pants, black shoes — Lynn Hershman Leeson stands in Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ main gallery on a Friday morning, surrounded by a lifetime of her artwork."
"Dressed all in black, Johnny Cash-style — black jacket, black pants, black shoes — Lynn Hershman Leeson stands in Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ main gallery on a Friday morning, surrounded by a lifetime of her artwork."
A Retrospective of Ones Own, for Lynn Hershman Leeson
By Michelle Threadgould in KQED
“Here I am, at 75 years old, and my work is being seen for the first time,” says Lynn Hershman Leeson, whose retrospective Civic Radar is currently on view at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. It marks the first major exhibition of ...
“Here I am, at 75 years old, and my work is being seen for the first time,” says Lynn Hershman Leeson, whose retrospective Civic Radar is currently on view at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. It marks the first major exhibition of ...
Artist Lynn Hershman Leeson on Being ‘Discovered’ at 75
By Max-Peter Heyne & Gabriele Leidloff in Die Tagespost
“But Hershman Leeson’s avant-garde technologism is cut with camp, horror, and feminized abjection, undergirding an eerie feeling that interactivity is as much about capture and control as it is about ...
“But Hershman Leeson’s avant-garde technologism is cut with camp, horror, and feminized abjection, undergirding an eerie feeling that interactivity is as much about capture and control as it is about ...
Against Lies and Repression: A Special Theme of the Berlinale Are Films About the Struggle for Freedom and Civil Rights
By Knut Elstermann in Radioeins
“Dr. Frank Ochberg is a psychiatrist and trauma specialist in New York. His specialty is post traumatic stress disorders and Stockholm syndrome. The famous Cuban artist Tania Bruguera, after having been a prisoner of conscience in ...
“Dr. Frank Ochberg is a psychiatrist and trauma specialist in New York. His specialty is post traumatic stress disorders and Stockholm syndrome. The famous Cuban artist Tania Bruguera, after having been a prisoner of conscience in ...
Berlinale Night Talk: Tania Libre
By Michelle Robertson in SF Gate
“Within moments, the exhibition introduces many of the themes that Bay Area resident Leeson has grappled with during her career, a career that long remained under-the-radar. The program, selected from a collection of over 800 ...
“Within moments, the exhibition introduces many of the themes that Bay Area resident Leeson has grappled with during her career, a career that long remained under-the-radar. The program, selected from a collection of over 800 ...
Lynn Hershman Leeson: Civic Radar opens at the YBCA
By Aurelio Cianciotta in Neural
“This thick luxurious ZKM catalogue of Lynn Hershman Leeson’s work, produced after her retrospective exhibition, is the most complete to date on the artist, achieving a long-overdue public acknowledgement of her work."
“This thick luxurious ZKM catalogue of Lynn Hershman Leeson’s work, produced after her retrospective exhibition, is the most complete to date on the artist, achieving a long-overdue public acknowledgement of her work."
Lynn Hershman Leeson: Civic Radar
By Charles Desmarais in SF Gate
“It is required viewing for anyone attentive to pioneers of feminism, the development of digital and performance art, or the cultural history of the Bay Area. It is, as well, a reminder that legends are part historical, part mythic ...
“It is required viewing for anyone attentive to pioneers of feminism, the development of digital and performance art, or the cultural history of the Bay Area. It is, as well, a reminder that legends are part historical, part mythic ...
Lynn Hershman Leeson: Myths and machines at YBCA
By Oliver Johnston in The Upcoming
“To see a group of eager people waiting in line is hardly a rare sight in Berlin. Generally, such lines are reserved for wide-eyed hipsters hoping to be granted admission into Berghain or another one of Berlin’s super clubs ...
“To see a group of eager people waiting in line is hardly a rare sight in Berlin. Generally, such lines are reserved for wide-eyed hipsters hoping to be granted admission into Berghain or another one of Berlin’s super clubs ...
Berlin Film Festival 2017: Ten Films to Look Out For
By Sarah Burke in East Bay Express
“Lynn Hershman Leeson pioneered work about issues most pertinent today before they were even on the radar. A seminal cyberfeminist thinker, Hershman Leeson’s experimentation in new media and net-art considers surveillance, ...
“Lynn Hershman Leeson pioneered work about issues most pertinent today before they were even on the radar. A seminal cyberfeminist thinker, Hershman Leeson’s experimentation in new media and net-art considers surveillance, ...