Lynn Hershman Leeson

“Lynn Hershmnan Leeson, the prolific San Francisco artist formerly known as Lynn hershman, has made a career blurring the line between fact and fiction, pblic and private, the way the world sees women and how they picture themselves.” –San Francisco Chronicle

Recently featured in both the New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle, Lynn Hershman Leeson returns to bitforms gallery for a rare solo exhbition encompassing 30 years of her groundbreaking work. One of the most influential artists working in new media today, Hershman Leeson has been internationally acclaimed for her pioneering use of new technologies and her investigations of issues that are now recognized as key to the working of our society: identity in a time of consumerism, privacy in a era of surveillance, interfacing of humans and machines, and the relationship between real and virtual worlds.

In addition to her New York exhibition and a touring 30-year retrospective organized by the Henry Art Gallery (Seattle, November 5-January 29), the Fall of 2005 will see the publication of The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson, Secret Agent, Private I(University of California Press)–the first major survey of Hershman Leeson's contributions to contemporary art, feminism and emerging technologies, including essays by Robin Held, Amelia Jones, Howard N. Fox, and Steve Dietz, among others and a DVD. Earlier this year, Stanford University Libraries acquired Hershman Leeson's archive from 1966 to 2002.

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Lynn Hershman Leeson - Selected Works 1974-2005