Lynn Hershman Leeson - Roberta Lookalike Contest
You’re invited to the Roberta Breitmore Look Alike Contest on Saturday, October 4, 2025, hosted in collaboration with di Rosa SF
Roberta Breitmore Look Alike Contest
Saturday, October 4, 2025, 5-7 pm
1150 25th Street, San Francisco, CA 94107
Join us for a special evening with di Rosa SF for the Roberta Look Alike Contest. This event celebrates Lynn Hershman Leeson's iconic Roberta Breitmore project, in which the artist created and performed as a fictional persona from 1972-1978, exploring themes of constructed identity, gender, and the boundaries between reality and fiction.
Visit the link below for event details and more information on Hershman Leeson’s Roberta Breitmore project.
Who is Roberta Breitmore?
Roberta Breitmore (1972-1978) was a performance by Lynn Hershman Leeson in which the artist invented and inhabited a constructed persona who lived as a seemingly real person in San Francisco. Beginning in 1972, Roberta Breitmore arrived by bus and checked into the Dante Hotel, then proceeded to live a fully documented life: opening a bank account, obtaining credit cards, renting an apartment, seeing a psychiatrist, and participating in contemporary trends like Weight Watchers. Roberta had her own distinctive clothing, signature makeup, walk, gestures, speech patterns, and handwriting.
Now On View
Lynn Hershman Leeson
About Time
On View Through October 11, 2025
“San Francisco artist Lynn Hershman Leeson has created work at the intersections of visual art, science, technology and feminism for decades. In her latest show, “About Time,” she touches on all these themes with an overarching awareness of the force that none of us can avoid: the forward momentum of the clock and aging.
At age 84, Hershman Leeson is aware that her time is now more limited, and the new work grapples with how she uses it. The Altman Siegel gallery show’s title video piece is a perfect place to start, as the artist explains not only the thesis of “About Time” but new advances in antiaging technology. The visual language of science is used throughout (images of laboratory equipment and DNA samples combined with self portraits) while her mixed media collages have a wit to them, with titles like “On the Clock” and “Defying the Clock” offering her usual commentary.”
-Tony Bravo, San Francisco Chronicle
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Images: Lynn Hershman Leeson, Roberta’s Construction Chart #1, 1975, Archival, digital print and dye transfer, 35 5/8 x 23 5/8 in, 90.5 x 60 cm; Installation View, Lynn Hershman Leeson, About Time, 2025, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA.
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About the Author
Over the last five decades, artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson has been internationally acclaimed for her art and films. Hershman Leeson is widely recognized for her innovative work investigating issues including: the relationship between humans and technology, identity, surveillance, and the use of media as a tool of empowerment against censorship and political repression.
Lynn Hershman Leeson is a recipient of many awards including a Siggraph Lifetime Achievement Award, Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica, and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. And in 2022, she was awarded a special mention from the Jury for her participation in the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. In 2023, Pratt Institute of Art in NY awarded her with an Honorary Doctorate. Creative Capital awarded her with their Distinguished Artist Award in 2023. SFMOMA acquired the museum’s first NFT from Hershman Leeson in 2023.
Her six feature films—Strange Culture, Teknolust, Conceiving Ada, !Women Art Revolution: A Secret History, Tania Libre, and The Electronic Diaries—are in worldwide distribution. Artwork by Lynn Hershman Leeson is featured in many public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, and The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
She is represented by Bridget Donahue, New York, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, Waldburger Wouters, Brussels, and ShanghART, China.
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A visionary life at the intersection of art, technology, and feminism.
Release: Nov 4, 2025
Hardcover ISBN: 9798988670087 • 292 pages
UK release: Nov 10, 2025 • UK Price: £25
