until Sunday October 03 2021

New Museum of Contemporary Art
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235 Bowery
10002 New York
United States

https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/lynn-hershman-leeson-twisted

The first solo museum exhibition in New York by groundbreaking artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson (b. 1941, Cleveland, OH).
30/06/21-03/10/21

The exhibition will bring together a selection of Hershman Leeson’s work in drawing, sculpture, video, and photography, along with interactive and net-based works, focusing on themes of transmutation, identity construction, and the evolution of the cyborg. Filling the New Museum’s Second Floor galleries, this presentation will include some of the artist’s most important projects, including wax-cast Breathing Machine sculptures (1965–68) and selections from hundreds of early drawings from the 1960s, many of which have never been exhibited before. Works from the Roberta Breitmore series (1973–78), perhaps her best-known project, in which she transformed her identity into a fictional persona, will be shown alongside her video Seduction of a Cyborg (1994) and selections from the series Water Women (1976–present), Phantom Limb (1985–88), and Cyborg (1996–2006), among others.

It will also include Hershman Leeson’s most recent large-scale project, Infinity Engine (2014–present), a multimedia installation based on a genetics laboratory that explores the effects of genetic engineering on society. Together, the works in the exhibition will trace the ever-intertwined relationship between the technological and the corporeal, illuminating the political and social consequences of scientific advances on our most intimate selves and biological lives.

Lynn Hershman Leeson (b. 1941, Cleveland, OH) lives and works in San Francisco and New York.