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 Jennifer Kabat in Freize
"I first met Lynn Hershman Leeson at a restaurant in north beach, San Francisco, four years ago to the day as I write this. My mom was dying then; death rips a hole in time, cutting through the calendar. That afternoon, the sky was an ...
"I first met Lynn Hershman Leeson at a restaurant in north beach, San Francisco, four years ago to the day as I write this. My mom was dying then; death rips a hole in time, cutting through the calendar. That afternoon, the sky was an ...
Double Dutch
By Eileen Myles in Aperture
"In a 1978 film called Lynn Turning into Roberta, the artist Lynn Hershman Leeson applies makeup to her face, sets a wig on her head, and gradually eases into the role of her fictitious persona and multiyear performance piece Roberta ...
"In a 1978 film called Lynn Turning into Roberta, the artist Lynn Hershman Leeson applies makeup to her face, sets a wig on her head, and gradually eases into the role of her fictitious persona and multiyear performance piece Roberta ...
Why Lynn Hershman Leeson Is Always Ahead of Her Time
By Jori Finkel in The New York Times
"For over 50 years, Lynn Hershman Leeson has anticipated and reflected the ways in which technology might change us."
"For over 50 years, Lynn Hershman Leeson has anticipated and reflected the ways in which technology might change us."
When Bots and Antibodies Are Art Materials
By Canada Choate in ArtForum
"...and many more pioneering explorations in film, on paper, and in silicon of the always-overlapping zones of ego, technology, surveillance, and power. With every eternal return, Leeson and Breitmore remind us: 'Disappearance is a ...
"...and many more pioneering explorations in film, on paper, and in silicon of the always-overlapping zones of ego, technology, surveillance, and power. With every eternal return, Leeson and Breitmore remind us: 'Disappearance is a ...
Lynn Hershman Leeson: Twisted
By Hans den Hartog Jager in NRC
"Lynn Hershman Leeson is a contemporary classic but no one knows she is a classic. Leeson is 80 and has been recognized for several years as an artist who is always one of the first to connect art and identity with new ...
"Lynn Hershman Leeson is a contemporary classic but no one knows she is a classic. Leeson is 80 and has been recognized for several years as an artist who is always one of the first to connect art and identity with new ...
Untamed in Search of the New
By Samantha Ozer in ArtForum
"If you think of artists as antibodies, going into a toxic space of culture and trying to identify the diseased parts and heal it, that’s a life project. I’ve been fortunate that I’ve lived long enough to be able to use DNA to make ...
"If you think of artists as antibodies, going into a toxic space of culture and trying to identify the diseased parts and heal it, that’s a life project. I’ve been fortunate that I’ve lived long enough to be able to use DNA to make ...
The Artist Discusses Her Work With Antibodies and DNA
By Lynn Hershman Leeson in ArtNews
"Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Running Fence (1972–76) was a temporary environmental artwork that was situated in Northern California and designed in the shape of a fence that extended 24 miles through the undulating landscape of ...
"Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Running Fence (1972–76) was a temporary environmental artwork that was situated in Northern California and designed in the shape of a fence that extended 24 miles through the undulating landscape of ...
Sculptor Christo Remembered by Artist Lynn Hershman Leeson: ‘Spirited, Political, and Profoundly Kind’
By Pamela C. Scorzin in Kunstforum
"Dear Lynn Hershman Leeson, as a research artist you have been working for years with scientists, geneticists, programmers, developers and engineers, among others, to explore the effects of technological progress and change on ...
"Dear Lynn Hershman Leeson, as a research artist you have been working for years with scientists, geneticists, programmers, developers and engineers, among others, to explore the effects of technological progress and change on ...
Ich Denke, Dass Algorithmen Das Titanweiss Der Malerei Dieser Ära Sind
By Joanne McNeil in Filmmaker Magazine
"There’s no question that Lynn Hershman Leeson is a prescient artist and filmmaker. Prescience is even a theme in her work, one she grapples with as a double-edged sword. Impossible to measure except in retrospect, it is a ...
"There’s no question that Lynn Hershman Leeson is a prescient artist and filmmaker. Prescience is even a theme in her work, one she grapples with as a double-edged sword. Impossible to measure except in retrospect, it is a ...
Conceiving the Future: The Prescient Lynn Hershman Leeson
By Sarah Hotchkiss in KQED
"The appearance of one’s doppelgänger usually presages disaster. Today, a shadow version of oneself exists constantly alongside our flesh-and-bone selves, for the most part concealed under the surface of our smartphones, in the ebb and ...
"The appearance of one’s doppelgänger usually presages disaster. Today, a shadow version of oneself exists constantly alongside our flesh-and-bone selves, for the most part concealed under the surface of our smartphones, in the ebb and ...
Artists Mine Data and the Mostly Chilling Implications of AI in Uncanny Valley
By Brian Hester in the Times Square Chronicles
"Yesterday I had the opportunity to preview an exhibit, Manual Override, which opens today and runs through January 12, 2020 at The Shed. The experience was well worth the visit as it proved thought provoking and ...
"Yesterday I had the opportunity to preview an exhibit, Manual Override, which opens today and runs through January 12, 2020 at The Shed. The experience was well worth the visit as it proved thought provoking and ...
Manual Override – Can It Be Stopped?
By Chloe Schama in Vogue
"But there’s another simpler but no less powerful way to engage with this complicated exhibition. See it for the installations dedicated to pioneering artist Lynn Hershman Leeson, who, after decades of relative anonymity, is finally ...
"But there’s another simpler but no less powerful way to engage with this complicated exhibition. See it for the installations dedicated to pioneering artist Lynn Hershman Leeson, who, after decades of relative anonymity, is finally ...