American artist Lynn Hershman (b.1941) has been doing artistic practice for more than 50 years and internationally acclaimed for her art and films. As one of the earliest new media vanguard artists, Lynn Hershman is widely recognised for her innovative work investigating issues that are now recognised 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. Over the decades, she has made pioneering contributions to the fields of photography, video, film, performance, installation and interactive as well as net-based media art.
Read MoreHer recent solo exhibitions include: Civic Radar, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, U.S.A. (2017); Cyborgs and Self-Promotion, Cleveland Museum of Art, U.S.A.(2016);The Liquid Identities, Lehmbruck Museum, Germany (2016); Origin of the Species (Part 2), Modern Art Oxford, U.K. (2015); Civic Radar, ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, Germany (2014); The Agent Ruby Files, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, U.S.A (2013); Me as Roberta, Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland (2012); Investigations, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, U.S.A. (2011);The Complete Roberta Breitmore, Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, U.K. (2009).
Recent group exhibitions include: Post-war-Art between the Pacific and Atlantic, Haus Der Kunst, Germany (2016); Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art 1905-2016, Whitney Museum, U.S.A (2016); The Campaign for Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, U.S.A. (2016); Technologism, Monash University Museum of Art, Australia (2015);Pop Departures, Seattle Art Museum, U.S.A. (2014); Vertigo of Reality, Academy of Art, Germany (2014); A Bigger Splash: Painting After Performance, Tate Modern, U.K. (2012); Double Life, Tate Modern, U.K. (2011); Verbund: Held Together With Water, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Turkey (2008).
Lynn Hershman is a recipient of a Siggraph Lifetime Achievement Award, Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica, and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. In 2017 she received a USA Artist Fellowship, the San Francisco Film Society's 'Persistence of Vision' Award and will receive the College Art Association's Lifetime Achievement Award.
Her five feature films - Strange Culture, Teknolust, Conceiving Ada, !Women Art Revolution: A Secret History, and Tania Libre are all in worldwide distribution and have screened at the Sundance Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival and The Berlin International Film Festival, among others. She was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Prize for writing and directing Teknolust. !Women Art Revolution received the Grand Prize Festival of Films on Art.
Her work has been shown in over 200 large-scale exhibitions throughout the world and is featured in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York, U.S.A), Tate Modern (London, U.K.), Lehmbruck Museum (Duisberg, Germany), Los Angeles County Museum of Contemporary Art (California, U.S.A), National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, Canada), Walker Art Centre (Minneapolis, U.S.A), Whitworth Art Gallery (Manchester, U.K.), ZKM | Centre for Art and Media (Karlsruhe, Germany), Berkeley Art Museum (California, U.S.A).
Current and Upcoming Exhibitions:
Art in Motion. 100 Masterpieces with and through Media, ZKM | Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany, July 14, 2018-February 24, 2019
Screening of Conceiving Ada & Vertighost at Art Basel, Art Basel Film Programme, Basel, Switzerland, June 14, 2018
Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia, June 2-October 28, 2018
Lynn Hershman Leeson: Anti-Bodies, House of Electronic Arts Basel (HeK Basel), Basel, Switzerland, May 3-August 5, 2018
Objects Like Us, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Berlin, Germany, May 20, 2017-January 13, 2019
Flashes of the Future, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany, April 20-August 19, 2018
Screening of Tania Libre at EPOS Art Film Festival, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel, March 14-17, 2018
Text courtesy ShanghART.
