Lynn Hershman Leeson

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 was hailed by the Museum of Modern Art as one of the three best documentaries of 2012. Her 2009 film, Strange Culture, resulted in the the release of an artist facing a prison sentence of 23 years. In 2016, Hershamn Leeson released Civic Radar, the first comprehensive book of her work, and Tania Bruguera - A State of Vulnerability, a new documentary film about the Cuban artist.