1941 | Born in Cleveland, Ohio |
1972 | M.A., San Francisco State University |
1963 | B.S., Case Western Reserve University |
2017 | USA Artist Fellowship |
San Francisco Film Society’s Persistence of Vision Award | |
2009 | Siggraph Lifetime Achievement Award |
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship | |
1999 | Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica |
Solo Exhibitions | (All | | | Selected) |
2019 | The Armory Show 2019, Booth: 702, 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. |
Group Exhibitions | (All | | | Selected) |
2020 | 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. |
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, SFMOMA, 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 |
Projects | (All | | | Selected) |
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 |
Film Festivals | (All | | | Selected) |
2018 | Screening of "Tania Libre" at EPOS Art Film Festival, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art,Tel-Aviv, Israel |
Berkeley Art Museum, California, U.S.A | |
ZKM | Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany | |
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 | |
Tate Modern, London, U.K. | |
Museum of Modern Art New York, New York, U.S.A |