Exhibition
Lynn Hershman Leeson: Twisted
06/30/21-10/03/21
Conversations · Exhibition-Related · Exhibition-Related
Lynn Hershman Leeson and Legacy Russell in Conversation
Cover Image:
Courtesy Zeitgeist Films
This program was hosted on Zoom. Watch a recording on New Museum Now.
Join us for a program featuring artist Lynn Hershman Leeson and writer and curator Legacy Russell. This conversation will address Hershman Leeson’s 2010 film !Women Art Revolution and Russell’s 2020 book Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto, and consider how new technologies, gender and identity, and societal constructs continue to shift.
All attendees will receive instructions on how to view !Women Art Revolution ahead of the program; please note the film will not be screened during the live conversation. The film is approximately eighty-three minutes long.
Lynn Hershman Leeson (b. 1941, Cleveland, OH) lives and works in San Francisco and New York. Her recent retrospective exhibition, “Civic Radar,” traveled from ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany (2014) to Deichtorhallen Hamburg / Sammlung Falckenberg, Germany (2015); Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany (2016); and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2017). Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo Comunidad de Madrid (2019); KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2018); Haus der elektronischen Künste, Basel (2018); Modern Art Oxford, UK (2015); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2013), and the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (2007). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the de Young Museum, San Francisco (2020); The Shed, New York (2019); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2019); Institute of Contemporary Art Boston (2018); Whitney Museum of American Art (2017); and Whitechapel Gallery, London (2016); as well as international exhibitions, including the Riga Biennial of Contemporary Art (2018), and the forthcoming 2020 Gwangju Biennial in Korea. Her films have screened at the Sundance Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival, and the Berlin International Film Festival, among others. Hershman Leeson has received numerous awards, including a VIA Art Fund Award (2019), a Siggraph Lifetime Achievement Award (2018), the College Art Association’s Distinguished Feminist Award (2018), the Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award from the 60th San Francisco International Film Festival (2017), a United States Artists Fellowship (2016), an Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2014), a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2009) and the Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica (1999).
Legacy Russell (b. 1986, New York, NY) is a curator and writer. Born and raised in New York City, she is the Executive Director and Chief Curator of The Kitchen. Formerly, Russell was the Associate Curator of Exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem. She holds an MRes with Distinction in Art History from Goldsmiths, University of London, with a focus in Visual Culture. Her academic, curatorial, and creative work focuses on gender, performance, digital selfdom, internet idolatry, and new media ritual. Russell’s written work, interviews, and essays have been published internationally. She is the recipient of the Thoma Foundation 2019 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art, a 2020 Rauschenberg Residency Fellow, and a 2021 Creative Capital Award. Her first book is Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto (2020). Her second book, BLACK MEME, is forthcoming via Verso Books.
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Major support for New Museum Public Programs is provided by the Research and Residencies Council.
New Museum Digital Initiatives are generously supported by Hermine and David B. Heller.
Generous ongoing support is provided by the Charlotte and Bill Ford Artist Talks Fund.
This program is made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Education and community programs are supported, in part, by the American Chai Trust.
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