Lynn Hershman Leeson (US), born in 1941 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She studied Education, Museum Administration, and Fine Arts (B.S.) at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland (1963) and Fine Arts (M.A.) at San Francisco State University (1972). Lynn Hershman Leeson is currently Chair of the Film Department at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is Professor Emerita at the University of California, David, and an A.D. White Professor at large at Cornell University. Hershman Leeson\'s work has been presented in numerous exhibitions around the globe.

She has won a number of prestigious awards, including the 1995 Siemens Media Art Prize from the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) in Karlsruhe (Germany) and in 1999 the Golden Nica award in interactive arts from Ars Electronica in Linz (Austria).

ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (Germany), is organizing the first comprehensive retrospective of Lynn Hershman Leeson, from 13 December, 2014 to 29 March, 2015.

Prix Ars Electronica Awards
a) Honorary Mention, IA 1993, Room of One´s Own LINK
b) Honorary Mention, IA 1995, America´s Finest LINK
c) Golden Nica, IA 1999, Difference Engine #3 LINK