The Many Lives of Lynn Hershman Leeson
by Andy DiLallo
Category
Book Review, Interview
Date
Oct 16, 2025
Source
Spike Art Magazine
Author
Andy DiLallo
Excerpt
“In her upcoming memoir, Private I (ZE Books, 2025), Lynn Hershman Leeson reflects on a life of art-making that relentlessly anticipated the world. From the constructed persona of Roberta Breitmore, who navigated life as a fabricated identity, and Lorna, confined by agoraphobia within her television screen, to the sentient program Agent Ruby and her recent ventures in microplastics – these works mark pressure points, foreshadowing the systems we would later grow into and possibilities still to be found within them…”