Awards
- 2009
Lifetime Achievement Award, Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques (ACM SIGGRAPH), New Orleans, LA
Guggenheim Fellow, US & Canada Competition. Creative Arts, Film, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, NY
Individual Artist Commissions Award, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
- 2008
Film/Video Grantee, for !Women Art Revolution! A (Formerly) Secret History, Creative Capital, New York, NY
- 2007
Marlon Riggs Award, for courage and innovation in cinema, The San Francisco Film Critics Circle, San Francisco, CA
- 2006
Innovation that Matters Award, ISEA/ZeroOne, San Jose, CA
Funding, for the production of Life to the Second Power: Animating the Archive, The Daniel Langlois Foundation, Montreal, Canada
- 2005
National Endowment for the Arts Grant in Media Arts
Positive Innovations Award, International Digital Media and Arts Association, Muncie, IN
Acquisition of Lynn Hershman Leeson archives 1966-2002 by Stanford University Libraries
- 2003
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize in Science and Technology, for Teknolust, Hamptons International Film Festival, East Hampton, NY
- 2000
Cyber Identities, Tribute and Retrospective, Feminale Film Festival, Cologne, Germany
Funding, for the production of Agent Ruby, The Daniel Langlois Foundation, Montreal, Canada
- 1999
Golden Nica Award (Grand Prize) in Interactive Art, for The Difference Engine #3, Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
- 1995
Anne Gerber Award, for Paranoid Mirror, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
ZKM/Siemens Media Art Prize, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
Cyberstar Award, for The Venus Home Page, WDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk) /GMD, Cologne, Germany
Honorary Mention in Interactive Art, for America's Finest, Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
- 1994
Reaching through the Screen: A Tribute to Lynn Hershman, Special Tribute, San Francisco International Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
- 1993
Honorary Mention in Interactive Art, for Room of One's Own, Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
- 1991
Barbara Aronofsky Latham Memorial Award, for Conspiracy of Silence, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Jonas Mekas Award, for Shadow's Song, Humboldt International Short Film Festival, Arcata, CA
First Prize, for Seeing Is Believing, Festival Internacional de Video Cidade de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
- 1990
Trophée de Cristal (Grand Prize), for Longshot, Montbéliard Video and Television Festival, Montbéliard, France
Prix du Public, for Longshot, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Montréal, Canada
- 1989
Film of the Year, for Longshot, London Film Festival, British Film Institute, London, England
- 1987
Golden Gate Award, for Confessions of a Chameleon, San Francisco International Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
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