Lynn Hershman Leesons universe is the super-radical and unstoppably empowered kindergarten of all our wildest dreams: where no limit exists to our optimism and curiosity, where even our intellects can bask in glee and play.
Tilda Swinton
I see in Lynns work: revolution in action, revolution in a frame, revolution at the speed of light as it tries to capture light. Lynns intelligence: lightning in a bottle with the cap almost coming off always because her energy is too great to contain, and no one medium can contain it, let alone one persona. So much to learn, to think about and observe.
Hilton Als
Lynn Hershman Leeson has always been ahead of the pack in her fusion of art and science. As early as the 1960s she foresaw the technology-permeated world of today. She was making computer-based work in the 1970s, and went on to experiment with artificial intelligence and virtual reality as art media. At a time when so much new art feels so old, this work feels like the future, which is now.
Holland Cotter, The New York Times
In our current age of digital avatars, technological surveillance, and turbulent identity politics, few artists seem as relevantand arguably as oracularas Lynn Hershman Leeson.
Robert Slifkin, The Art Review
Spanning half a century, the pioneering art of Americas Lynn Hershman Leeson is strange, beautiful and, best of all, funny.
Laura Cumming, The Guardian
Lynn Hershman Leeson was the originator of our current artistic zeitgeist, and the first to explore many of the groundbreaking ideas that shape our current reality. Im grateful to Lynn for showing me what it means to subvert the mainstream and create on my own terms. Lynn was there, let the people know!!
Martine Syms
Lynn Hershman Leeson is one of the most influential media artists of our times.
Rudolf Frieling, Curator of Media Arts at SFMOMA
It is fair to make the claim that Hershman Leeson was several decades ahead of her time, for she saw the potential of media to subvert itself. Lisa Long, Artistic Director of the Julia Stoschek Foundation
