Lynn Hershman Leeson
Awards
2010-
2011
d.velop digital art award [ddaa]
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2010 Nathan Cummings Foundation Grant
2010 Tides Foundation Grant
2009
ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art
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2009 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
2008 Creative Capital Grant
2007 Marlon Riggs Award
2006 ISEA/ZeroOne, Innovation Matters
Commissions
2006 Daniel Langlois & Stanford University
2006 de Young Museum
Solo Exhibitions
2011 bitforms gallery, New York
2009 Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK. The Complete Roberta Breitmore (Aug 1 - Summer 2010)
2008 Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2008
New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA. The Floating Museum Archive
2008
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
2008
bitforms gallery, New York
2008 Hess Collection, San Francisco, CA. CyberActive: The Work of Lynn Hershman Leeson
2008 de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA. Lynn Hershman Leeson: No Body Special
2007 Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, UK. Autonomous Agents
Group Exhibitions
2011
Neuberger Mueum of Art, Purchase, NY and the Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY. The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power 1973-1992 (Jan 15 - Apr 3)
2010 diRosa Gatehouse Gallery, Napa, CA. Know the Rules - Then Break Them (Oct 30 - Jan 29, 2011)
2010
PULSE New York
2010 SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA. The Future Lasts Forever – An Autobiography of the San Francisco Bay Area
2009 P.S.1, New York. 100 Years (version #2, ps1, nov 2009)
2009 Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland. Darkside II - Photographic Power and Violence, Disease, and Death Photographed
2009 Incheon Digital Art Festival, Incheon, Korea. Vistas / Vision of U-city
2008 SF MoMA, San Francisco, CA. The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now
2008
Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada. WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution
2008
Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO. DIALOG: Denver
2008
Zero One San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge
2008
PS 1, New York. WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution
2007
Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO. Beauty and the Blonde
2007
Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts
2007
Musee d'art Contemporain de Montreal
2007 FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool. Video Positive
2007 MoCA Taipei, Taiwan. Fast Time Slow Bodies
2007 Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center, New York. Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
2007 Santa Monica Museum of Art. Identity Theft
2007 MOCA Los Angeles, CA. WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution
2007 National Museum of Women in the Arts, DC. WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution
2007 Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam. Faith in Exposure
Films in production

(H)ERata: Women, Art and Revolution, documentary
Events
2010
World premiere of ! Women Art Revolution - A (Formerly) Secret History, Toronto Film Festival. Sep 12
2010
Symposium and guided tour, The Complete Roberta Breitmore Symposium. Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK. Saturday, Apr 24, 2 - 5PM
2010
Guggenheim Forum live chat, Beyond Material Worth. Feb 25, 2PM
2009
Screening of selected video works, bitforms gallery, New York. Jun 19, 6:30 - 7:30PM
2008 Featured Speaker, Women and Courage, Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY
2008 Lecture with Tom "Dr. Colorado" Noel, Mixed Taste: Artificial Intelligence and the 1908 Democratic National Convention, Belmar Lab, Lakewood, CO
2008 Benefit for Rhizome, a New Museum affiliate, honoring Lynn Hershman Leeson and Joshua Schachter.
2008 Lynn Hershman Leeson—Virtually Everything, Virtually: An Almost Complete Retrospective of the Single-Channel Works 1977–1994, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive