Lynn Hershman Leeson: Deep Fake / Hoffman Donahue Gallery
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Lynn Hershman Leeson: Deep Fake
Hoffman Donahue Gallery, Los Angeles
January 29 - March 14, 2026
Leeson’s six-decade career, bringing together works from her iconic series Phantom Limb, Breathing Machines, Roberta Breitmore, and Hero Sandwich, alongside never-before-seen early drawings, rare video works, and newly manipulated photographs.
Lynn Hershman Leeson (b. 1941, Cleveland, OH) is widely recognized as one of the most influential media artists of her generation. Since the late 1960s, with near uncanny foresight, Hershman Leeson has repeatedly anticipated technological shifts, working with emerging technologies from interactive video to artificial intelligence and genetic engineering. Spanning photography, film, performance, installation, and networked media, her practice persistently investigates issues now central to contemporary society, including identity, privacy in a time of surveillance, and the psychosocial relationship between humans and technology.
Hershman Leeson’s work has been the subject of major international exhibitions and retrospectives, including Twisted at the New Museum, New York in 2021, and Civic Radar, first organized by ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe in 2015 and later presented at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco in 2017. Her work was recently on view in major exhibitions, including Sixties Surreal, The Whitney, New York, NY; Are Our Eyes Targets?, The Julia Stoschek Foundation, Dusseldorf, Germany; The 36th Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; and Data Dreams: Art and AI, MCA Sydney, Australia.
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