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 Amelia Abraham in Artsy
"Cahun was a forerunner to contemporary feminist artists like Lynn Hershman Leeson, Ana Mendieta, Cindy Sherman, and Gillian Wearing, among many others, who have played with elements of drag, often to critique the expectations placed on ...
"Cahun was a forerunner to contemporary feminist artists like Lynn Hershman Leeson, Ana Mendieta, Cindy Sherman, and Gillian Wearing, among many others, who have played with elements of drag, often to critique the expectations placed on ...
A Brief History of Drag in the Art World
By Ellie Broughton in Litro Magazine
"Back in 2010 when the Guerrilla Girls first began to organise, Lynn Hershman Leeson was interviewed for the conclusion of her documentary on sexism in the art industry, !Women Art Revolution. The film captured the mischief of ...
"Back in 2010 when the Guerrilla Girls first began to organise, Lynn Hershman Leeson was interviewed for the conclusion of her documentary on sexism in the art industry, !Women Art Revolution. The film captured the mischief of ...
Interview: Lynn Hershman Leeson
By Mary Halton in New Scientist
"Artist Lynn Hershman Leeson subtly undermines our ridicule of past practices with a real-time “consultation bot” that blurs the boundary between superstition and fact, nudging uncomfortably close to the role that Google and WebMD ...
"Artist Lynn Hershman Leeson subtly undermines our ridicule of past practices with a real-time “consultation bot” that blurs the boundary between superstition and fact, nudging uncomfortably close to the role that Google and WebMD ...
Making an Art Out of Medical Record-Keeping
By Leah Garchik in The San Francisco Chronicle
"After agreeing on their inability to get galleries or museums interested in showing their work — Hershman Leeson described having a work thrown out of an art museum because “I used sound” — they began “making ...
"After agreeing on their inability to get galleries or museums interested in showing their work — Hershman Leeson described having a work thrown out of an art museum because “I used sound” — they began “making ...
Lynn Hershman Leeson and Eleanor Coppola, Mischief Makers
By Lucía Sanromán for SF Persistence of Vision Award
"For half a century now, Lynn Hershman Leeson has made pioneering contributions to performance, conceptual art, new media, and film with works whose formal and technical experimentation is matched by her ...
"For half a century now, Lynn Hershman Leeson has made pioneering contributions to performance, conceptual art, new media, and film with works whose formal and technical experimentation is matched by her ...
SF Film Persistence of Vision Award
By Alan Gilbert in E-Flux
"In this way, the gaze in Hershman Leeson’s work frequently aims to alternate between object and viewer, even if her primary subject is representations of the female body via technology and performance."
"In this way, the gaze in Hershman Leeson’s work frequently aims to alternate between object and viewer, even if her primary subject is representations of the female body via technology and performance."
Lynn Hershman Leesons “Remote Controls”
Published in The New York Times
"In the 1970s, suffering the neglect endemic to most female artists during that period, Lynn Hershman Leeson assumed the identity of several fictional art critics, wrote about her own work and had the reviews published in art magazines."
"In the 1970s, suffering the neglect endemic to most female artists during that period, Lynn Hershman Leeson assumed the identity of several fictional art critics, wrote about her own work and had the reviews published in art magazines."
What to See in New York Galleries This Week: Remote Controls
By Sienna Freeman in Daily Serving
"Immediately upon entering the space, a perceptual split between the virtual and the real is presented by Hershman Leeson’s The Infinity Engine (2014–2017), a row of distorted mirrors that subsumes and reflects our own ...
"Immediately upon entering the space, a perceptual split between the virtual and the real is presented by Hershman Leeson’s The Infinity Engine (2014–2017), a row of distorted mirrors that subsumes and reflects our own ...
Lynn Hershman Leeson: Civic Radar at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
By Kelsey Lannin in Vice
"It’s serious business fighting the persistent gender inequity in the arts. For Lynn Hershman Leeson, whose retrospective Civic Radar is now at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, it’s life and death."
"It’s serious business fighting the persistent gender inequity in the arts. For Lynn Hershman Leeson, whose retrospective Civic Radar is now at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, it’s life and death."
Omission is Murder for Feminist Media Art Pioneer Lynn Hershman Leeson
By Hannah Stamler in The Village Voice
"By Hannah Stamler in The Village Voice
"'In the beginning, it seemed innocent enough.' These words open Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Seduction of a Cyborg, a dark tale for the Information Age included in “Remote ...
"By Hannah Stamler in The Village Voice
"'In the beginning, it seemed innocent enough.' These words open Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Seduction of a Cyborg, a dark tale for the Information Age included in “Remote ...
Lynn Hershman Leeson’s New-Media Experiments Bend Reality
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 ...