An artist wearing sunglasses stands looking up at a large portrait artwork of a face rendered in mottled gray tones on a dark textured wall.
Lynn Hershman Leeson looks at her piece “How Did This Happen?” at her exhibition “About Face” at Altman Siegel. (Photo: Gabrielle Lurie / The Chronicle)

Professor emerita Hershman Leeson spotlighted in local shows and media

  • by Staff

In a recent San Francisco Chronicle Dateline feature, Tony Bravo highlights the numerous contributions San Francisco artist and professor emerita Lynn Hershman Leeson has made to the contemporary art scene. Hershman Leeson, who was a professor in both the Department of Art and Art History and the Department of Cinema and Digital Media, is a pioneer of feminist art and new media, producing work that is focused on identity politics and the politics of technology. Read the full article here.

Hershman Leeson is also the subject of several Bay area shows now on view:

“Image Gardeners,” McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, January 14-April 30, 2022

“Lynn Hershman Leeson: About Face,” Altman Siegel, March 3-April 23, 2022

“Speculative Portraits,” SFMOMA, April 9-Sept. 5, 2022

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