LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON 林恩·赫舍曼·利森 Biography

Basic

1941	Born in Cleveland, Ohio

Education

1963	B.S., Case Western Reserve University
1972	M.A., San Francisco State University

Prize

2020	Award of Distinction for Shadow Stalker, Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
2017	USA Artist Fellowship
	San Francisco Film Society’s Persistence of Vision Award, San Francisco, U.K.
2009	Siggraph Lifetime Achievement Award
	John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1999	Golden Nica, Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria

Solo Exhibitions

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2021	Lynn Hershman Leeson: Twisted, New Museum, New York, U.S.A.
	Staged Intimacy 1974-2019, Rozenstraat, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2019	First Person Plural, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain
2018	Lynn Hershman: Alter Ego (Roberta Breitmore Series), ShanghART Singapore, Singapore
	First Person Plural, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
	Lynn Hershman Leeson: Anti-Bodies, House of Electronic Arts Basel (HeK Basel), Basel, Switzerland
2017	Civic Radar, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, U.S.A
2014	Civic Radar, ZKM \| Museum of Contemporary Art , Germany
2009	The Complete Roberta Breitmore, Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester,U.K.

Group Exhibitions

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All)

2021	New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, San Francisco, U.S.A.
	13th Gwangju Biennale, Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning, Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall, Gwangju, South Korea
2020	Art in the Age of Anxiety, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
	Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI, de Young Museum, San Francisco, U.S.A.
2019	Manual Override, The Shed, New York, U.S.A.
	Transamerica/n: Gender, Identity, Appearance Today, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, U.S.A.
	UNCANNY VALUES: Artificial Intelligence & You, MAK - Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
	Orlando, Guest Curated by Tilda Swinton, Aperture Foundation, New York, U.S.A.
2018	The 6th Guangzhou Triennial, As We May Think, Feedforward, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
	Architecture Effects, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
	Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965-2018, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, U.S.A.
	Art in Motion. 100 Masterpieces with and through Media, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
	Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia
2016	The Campaign for Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, U.S.A.
	Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art 1905-2016, Whitney Museum, U.S.A
2012	A Bigger Splash: Painting After Performance, Tate Modern, U.K.
2011	Double Life, Tate Modern, U.K.

Projects

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Film Festivals

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Selected)

2020	Sundance Film Festival 2020, Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance, Utah, U.S.A.
2018	Screening of "Tania Libre" at EPOS Art Film Festival, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art,Tel-Aviv, Israel

Collections

	Berkeley Art Museum, California, U.S.A
	Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, U.K.
	Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, U.S.A
	National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
	Los Angeles County Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, U.S.A
	Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
	San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco , U.S.A.
	Tate Collection, London, U.K.
	Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A

2022	59th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, The Milk of Dreams, Venice, Italy
	Speculative Portraits, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, U.S.A.
	Among the Machines, Zabludowicz Collection, London, U.K.
	LIVES: Life, Survival, Living, Jut Art Museum, Taipei
	Beneath the Skin, Between the Machines, How Art Museum, Shanghai
	Image Gardeners, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, U.S.A.
2021	Code of Arms, Gazelli Art House, London, U.K.
	Proof.Incorporated, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
	Staying with the Trouble, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University, Medford, U.S.A.
	New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, San Francisco, U.S.A.
	13th Gwangju Biennale, Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning, Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall, Gwangju, South Korea
	Send Me An Image, From Postcards to Social Media, C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2020	Photography Today: Resistant Faces, Exhibition series on art photography in the digital age, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
	States of Mind: Art and American Democracy, Moody Centre for the Arts, Rice Univeristy, Houston, U.S.
	Art in the Age of Anxiety, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
	Cache: From B to Z, ShanghART, Shanghai
	Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI, de Young Museum, San Francisco, U.S.A.
	CAFAM Techne Triennale: Topologies of the Real, Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing
	Das Theater der Kinos (The Theatre of Cinema), Volksbühne, Berlin, Germany
	Orlando, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, U.S.A.
	The Question of Intelligence - AI and the Future of Humanity, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, The Sheila C Johnson Design Center, Parsons School of Design, New York, U.S.A.
2019	D3US EX M4CH1NA, temporarily closed until further notice, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, Spain
	Manual Override, The Shed, New York, U.S.A.
	The Assembled Human, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
	Age of You, Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, Canada
	Transamerica/n: Gender, Identity, Appearance Today, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, U.S.A.
	UNCANNY VALUES: Artificial Intelligence & You, MAK - Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
	Orlando, Guest Curated by Tilda Swinton, Aperture Foundation, New York, U.S.A.
	Surrogates, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
	The Body Electric, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, U.S.A.
	Snap + Share, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, U.S.A.
2018	The 6th Guangzhou Triennial, As We May Think, Feedforward, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
	Architecture Effects, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
	Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965-2018, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, U.S.A.
	DRAG: Self-portraits and Body Politics, HENI Project Space, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, U.K.
	Art in Motion. 100 Masterpieces with and through Media, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
	Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia
	Objects Like Us, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Berlin, Germany
	Flashes of the Future, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
	Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
2016	The Campaign for Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, U.S.A.
	Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art 1905-2016, Whitney Museum, U.S.A
	Post-war- Art between the Pacific and Atlantic, Haus Der Kunst, Germany
2015	Technologism, Monash University Museum of Art, Australia
2014	Vertigo of Reality, Academy of Art, Germany
	Pop Departures, Seattle Art Museum, U.S.A.
2012	A Bigger Splash: Painting After Performance, Tate Modern, U.K.
2011	Double Life, Tate Modern, U.K.
2008	Verbund: Held Together With Water, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Turkey

2022	About Face, Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A.
2021	Lynn Hershman Leeson: Twisted, New Museum, New York, U.S.A.
	Staged Intimacy 1974-2019, Rozenstraat, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2019	The Armory Show 2019, Pier 94, New York, U.S.A
	First Person Plural, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain
2018	Lynn Hershman: Alter Ego (Roberta Breitmore Series), ShanghART Singapore, Singapore
	First Person Plural, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
	Lynn Hershman Leeson: Anti-Bodies, House of Electronic Arts Basel (HeK Basel), Basel, Switzerland
2017	Civic Radar, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, U.S.A
2016	Cyborgs and Self-Promotion, Cleveland Museum of Art, U.S.A
	The Liquid Identities, Lehmbruck Museum, Germany
2015	Origin of the Species (Part 2), Modern Art Oxford, U.K.
2014	Civic Radar, ZKM \| Museum of Contemporary Art , Germany
2013	The Agent Ruby Files, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, U.S.A.
2012	Me as Roberta, Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland
2011	Investigations, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, U.S.A.
2009	The Complete Roberta Breitmore, Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester,U.K.

2018	Vertighosts: Homages to Hitchcock’s Vertigo, Art Basel Short Film Program, Basel, Switzerland
	Lynn Hershman Leeson: Conceiving Ada, Art Basel Feature Program, Basel, Switzerland