Artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson has been internationally acclaimed for her pioneering use of new technologies and her investigations of issues that are now recognized as key to the working of our society: identity in a time of consumerism, privacy in a era of surveillance, interfacing of humans and machines, and the relationship between real and virtual worlds.

Work by Lynn Hershman Leeson is featured in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum, The Tate Modern, the William Lehmbruck Museum, the ZKM (Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Canada, the Walker Art Center, in addition to the celebrated private collections of Donald Hess and Arturo Schwarz, among many others. Commissions include projects for the Tate Modern, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Charles Schwab.

Recently honored with two Lifetime Achievement Awards from the CAA she has received grants from Creative Capital, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Tides Foundation, and the Nathan Cummings Foundation,  Siemens International Media Arts Award, the Flintridge Foundation Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts, Prix Ars Electronica, and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize.

Her retrospective organized by Peter Weibel in 2014 included the catalogue CIVIC RADAR.