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 Tony Bravo in SF Chronicle
“San Francisco artist Lynn Hershman Leeson has been at the forefront of technology, feminism and experimentation in art for more than half a century. Her new memoir brings readers inside the struggles, the triumphs and the long ...
“San Francisco artist Lynn Hershman Leeson has been at the forefront of technology, feminism and experimentation in art for more than half a century. Her new memoir brings readers inside the struggles, the triumphs and the long ...
Stunning Art and Design Books That Celebrate Bay Area Talent
By Sara Oscar in The Conversation
"Lynn Hershman Leeson’s video works explore the political stakes of AI. In Logic Paralyzes the Heart and Cyborgian Rhapsody, her cyborg protagonists move between questions of military surveillance, facial recognition systems, ...
"Lynn Hershman Leeson’s video works explore the political stakes of AI. In Logic Paralyzes the Heart and Cyborgian Rhapsody, her cyborg protagonists move between questions of military surveillance, facial recognition systems, ...
AI ‘dreams’ up new realities. How does this impact the way we understand our own dreaming?
By Lynn Hershman Leeson in Private I via Hyperallergic
“I didn’t speak until I was almost seven. But just because I was not speaking, did not mean I was not listening. I often heard my parents wondering if I was ‘retarded.’ Although I didn’t understand the word, ...
“I didn’t speak until I was almost seven. But just because I was not speaking, did not mean I was not listening. I often heard my parents wondering if I was ‘retarded.’ Although I didn’t understand the word, ...
Hyperallergic: Writing My Own Artistic Origin Story by Lynn Hershman Leeson
By Lydia Horne in Alta Journal
“In Private I: A Memoir, Lynn Hershman Leeson reframes art history through proof of women’s participation, validating her own uncredited contributions and those of peers like Eleanor Coppola and Carolee Schneemann—a manifesto of ...
“In Private I: A Memoir, Lynn Hershman Leeson reframes art history through proof of women’s participation, validating her own uncredited contributions and those of peers like Eleanor Coppola and Carolee Schneemann—a manifesto of ...
Mounting the Evidence: Private I Review in Alta Journal
By Michelle Handelman in The Brooklyn Rail
“I realized that there were only two options, which were to continue doing work only I could do, or become a slave to the expectations of everyone around me. I chose the former...”
“I realized that there were only two options, which were to continue doing work only I could do, or become a slave to the expectations of everyone around me. I chose the former...”
LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON with Michelle Handelman in The Brooklyn Rail
By Mark Amerika in Brooklyn Rail
“[Insert sentence, 280 characters or less]...”“Making art was my reason to breathe. I was using art to explore the varied personas women embody in contemporary society.”
“[Insert sentence, 280 characters or less]...”“Making art was my reason to breathe. I was using art to explore the varied personas women embody in contemporary society.”
“Making Art Was My Reason To Breathe” Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Private I By Mark Amerika in Brooklyn Rail
By Andy DiLallo in Spike Art Magazine
“To speak with her is to enter the shifting terrain of authenticity, where the ‘real’ is never fixed, but continually remade...”
“To speak with her is to enter the shifting terrain of authenticity, where the ‘real’ is never fixed, but continually remade...”
The Many Lives of Lynn Hershman Leeson by Andy DiLallo
By Jonathan Mandell in New York Theater
“These artists from diverse backgrounds took license from the wildness of the Surrealist imagination to express the psychosexual, fantastical, spiritual, strange, and revolutionary qualities of their time...”
“These artists from diverse backgrounds took license from the wildness of the Surrealist imagination to express the psychosexual, fantastical, spiritual, strange, and revolutionary qualities of their time...”
Sixties Surreal at the Whitney
By Jo Lawson-Tancred in artnet
“When you’re younger, life gives you things… As you get older, things are taken away—your friends, then your movement, your vision, your ability to remember...”
“When you’re younger, life gives you things… As you get older, things are taken away—your friends, then your movement, your vision, your ability to remember...”
Can Art Reverse Aging? Lynn Hershman Leeson’s New Show Defies the Limits of Time
By Tess Little in Another Gaze
"Lynn Hershman Leeson’s vast, shape-shifting body of work—from cyborg drawings to telerobotic dolls—uses women as both subject and material, constantly blurring the lines between viewer and viewed, fiction and reality, machine and ...
"Lynn Hershman Leeson’s vast, shape-shifting body of work—from cyborg drawings to telerobotic dolls—uses women as both subject and material, constantly blurring the lines between viewer and viewed, fiction and reality, machine and ...
Woman, Viewer, Subject, Object: The Faces of Lynn Hershman Leeson
By Tony Bravo in San Francisco Chronicle
"San Francisco artist Lynn Hershman Leeson has created work at the intersections of visual art, science, technology and feminism for decades. In her latest show, “About Time,” she touches on all these themes with an ...
"San Francisco artist Lynn Hershman Leeson has created work at the intersections of visual art, science, technology and feminism for decades. In her latest show, “About Time,” she touches on all these themes with an ...
Lynn Hershman Leeson explores aging, science in ‘About Time’
By The Table Read
“Private I traces Hershman Leeson’s lifelong commitment to experimentation, embracing film, video, AI, chatbots, and even her own DNA to explore identity, surveillance, and the perils of unchecked technology, cementing her legacy as a pioneering ...
“Private I traces Hershman Leeson’s lifelong commitment to experimentation, embracing film, video, AI, chatbots, and even her own DNA to explore identity, surveillance, and the perils of unchecked technology, cementing her legacy as a pioneering ...