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

2022	Special Mention, 59th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
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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2025	Lynn Hershman Leeson: Of Humans, Cyborgs, and AI, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, U.S.A.
2024	Are Our Eyes Targets?, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Dusseldorf, Germany
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)

2025	Future in the Mirror: Liang Shaoji, Li Shan, Lynn Hershman Leeson, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing
2024	Vital Signs: Artists and the Body, MoMA, New York, U.S.A.
	Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960-1991, Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2023	MOMENTA Biennale de l’image, Masquerades: Drawn to Metamorphosis, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
	Renaissance 3.0, ZKM \| Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
	Signals: How Video Transformed the World, MoMA, New York, U.S.A
	I’ll Be Your Mirror: Art and the Digital Screen, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, U.S.
	A Feminist Avant-Garde, Photographs and Performances of the 1970s from the Verbund Collection, Vienna, Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France
2022	Future Bodies from a Recent Past, Sculpture, Technology, and the Body since the 1950s, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany
	59th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, The Milk of Dreams, Venice, Italy
	Speculative Portraits, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, U.S.A.
	Beneath the Skin, Between the Machines, How Art Museum, Shanghai
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	Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art 1905-2016, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, U.S.A
	The Campaign for Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, U.S.A.
2012	A Bigger Splash: Painting After Performance, Tate Modern, U.K.
2011	Double Life, Tate Modern, U.K.

Projects

(Selected

All)

2024	Lynn Hershman Leeson: Moving-Image Innovater, Film series, MoMA, New York, U.S.A.

Film Festivals

(All

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

	Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany
	Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, U.S.A.
	Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, U.S.A.
	Museum Ludwig, Koeln, Germany
	National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa，Canada
	Berkeley Art Museum, California, U.S.A
	Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, U.K.
	Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, U.S.A.
	Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
	Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
	Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France; San Francisco, U.S.A.
	San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco , U.S.A.
	Zabludowicz Collection, London, U.K.
	Tate Collection, London, U.K.
	Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A
	Hammer Museum, Gift of the Haudenschild Collection, Los Angeles, U.S.A.

2025	Plasmodesmata, ShanghART WB Central, Shanghai
	Staging Realities, ShanghART Singapore, Singapore
	Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960-1991, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
	The Second-Guess: Body Anxiety in the Age of AI, online exhibition
	Future in the Mirror: Liang Shaoji, Li Shan, Lynn Hershman Leeson, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing
2024	Access Kafka, Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany
	Fresh Window, The Art of Display & Display of Art, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
	Vital Signs: Artists and the Body, MoMA, New York, U.S.A.
	Bloodchild. Scenes from a Symbiosis, Fondazione Spazio Vitale, Verona, Italy
	Digital Capture, Southern California and the Origins of the Pixel-Based Image World, California Museum of Photography and Culver Center of the Arts, California, U.S.A.
	Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960-1991, Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg
	For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, U.S.A.
	10 YEARS, ShanghART at West Bund 2015-2024, ShanghART, Shanghai
	Photography Through the Lens of AI, Foam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
	Futures Without Guns, University City Science Center, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
	The Imagery Between Lines and Paper, ShanghART, Shanghai
	PERFORMER AND PARTICIPANT, Tate Modern
2023	Infinite, ShanghART M50, Shanghai
	Seduction of a Cyborg, Wouters Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
	MOMENTA Biennale de l’image, Masquerades: Drawn to Metamorphosis, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
	Seduction of a Cyborg, Waldburger Wouters, Brussels, Belgium
	The Rose, Lumber Room, Portland, U.S.A.
	New Saints, Waldburger Wouters, Brussels, Belgium
	Renaissance 3.0, ZKM \| Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
	Signals: How Video Transformed the World, MoMA, New York, U.S.A
	Supernatural: Sculptural Visions of the Body, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
	13 Women: Variation II, Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, U.S.A.
	I’ll Be Your Mirror: Art and the Digital Screen, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, U.S.
	Chrysalis: The Butterfly Dream, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
	A Feminist Avant-Garde, Photographs and Performances of the 1970s from the Verbund Collection, Vienna, Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France
2022	Future Bodies, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
	The Condition of Being Addressable, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, U.S.
	Future Bodies from a Recent Past, Sculpture, Technology, and the Body since the 1950s, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany
	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.
	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
2017	How It's Made, Carl Kostyál, London, U.K.
2016	Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art 1905-2016, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, U.S.A
	Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966), Whitechapel Gallery, London, England
	The Campaign for Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 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

2025	Desire Inc., 243 Luz, Margate, U.K.
	Lynn Hershman Leeson: Of Humans, Cyborgs, and AI, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, U.S.A.
2024	Are Our Eyes Targets?, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Dusseldorf, Germany
	Anti-Aging, Bridget Donahue Gallery, New York, U.S.
2023	Lynn Hershman Leeson: Logic Paralyzes the Heart, Te Tuhi, Auckland, New Zealand
2022	Lynn Hershman Leeson, The Electronic Diaries (1984-2019), Simian, Copenhagen, Denmark
	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	Trans Genesis: Evaporations and Mutations, Vilma Gold, London, U.K.
	Lynn Turning into Roberta, Vilma Gold, London, U.K.
	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.

2024	Lynn Hershman Leeson: Moving-Image Innovater, Film series, MoMA, New York, U.S.A.
	Lynn Hershman Leeson, MAMCO Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
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