Lynn Hershman-Leeson

Biography

Over the last five decades, artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson has received international acclaim for her art and films. She is recognized for her innovative work investigating issues that are now recognized as key to the workings of society: the relationship between humans and technology, identity, surveillance, and the use of media as a tool of empowerment against censorship and political repression. She is considered one of the most influential media artists and has made pioneering contributions in photography, video, film, performance, installation and interactive as well as net-based media art. Her activist films on injustice within the art world and society at large have been praised worldwide. !Women Art Revolution! won first prize in the Montreal Festival for Films on Art and hailed by the Museum of Modern Art as one of the three best documentaries of 2012. Holland Cotter of the New York Times called it “the most comprehensive documentary ever made on the feminist art movement.” Her 2009 film Strange Culture – which the NY Time deemed “the perfect balance of form and content” and The Nation called “a brilliant and moving examination of fear and its manipulation” – …

Directed

1. Teknolust (2002) — Director
2. !W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution (2010) — Director
3. Conceiving Ada (1999) — Director
4. Point of View (1988) — Director
5. Strange Culture (2007) — Director
6. 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing (2019) — Director
7. Shooting Script: A Transatlantic Love Story (1992) — Director
8. Virtual Love (1993) — Director
9. Seduction of a Cyborg (1994) — Director
10. Bonwit Windows (1976) — Director
11. Shadow Stalker (2019) — Director
12. Immortality (2023) — Director
13. Logic Paralyzes the Heart (2022) — Director
14. Desire Inc. (1990) — Director
15. The Electronic Diaries (2019) — Director
16. Cyborgian Rhapsody—Immortality (2024) — Director
17. Commercial for Myself (1978) — Director
18. Lynn Turning into Roberta (1978) — Director
19. Test Patterns (1979) — Director
20. Longshot (1989) — Director
21. Seeing Is Believing (1992) — Director
22. Life Squared (2007) — Director
23. Tania Libre (2017) — Director
24. VertiGhost (2017) — Director
25. Twists in the Cord (or) … Other Extensions of the Telephone (1994) — Director
26. Confessions of a Chameleon (1986) — Director
27. Binge (1987) — Director
28. CyberBaby (1998) — Director

Also appeared in

1. !W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution (2010) — Herself
2. Conceiving Ada (1999) — CD Rom (Voice)
3. Desire Inc. (1990)
4. Life Squared (2007) — Narrator
5. Twists in the Cord (or) … Other Extensions of the Telephone (1994)
6. CyberBaby (1998) — Herself
7. Tell Them We Were Here (2021) — Self