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Shirin Neshat is an Iranian photographer and visual artist who lives in New York City, known primarily for her work in film, video and photography. Her artwork centers on the contrasts between Islam and the West, femininity and masculinity, public life and private life, antiquity and modernity, and bridging the spaces between these subjects.
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Born 26 March 1957 · Q262413
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“fantasized about the west, romanticized the west, and slowly rejected all of his own values; both her parents did. What happened, I think, was that their identity slowly dissolved, they exchanged it for comfort. It served their class”
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Neshat signed with 800 other Hollywood professionals, the statement calling to condemn Iran for the atrocities it committed against Iranian civilians during the 2025-2026 Iranian protests against reparation and economic
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Forbes: Shirin Neshat’s ‘The Fury’ Is A Powerful, Politically Charged Artwork
Neshat presented The Fury at Fotografiska Stockholm, followed by a presentation of the exhibition at Fotografiska Berlin in 2024
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Neshat participated in the group exhibition "Eyes on Iran" at Franklin D
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Joined protests about the Death of Mahsa Amini, by showing her work Woman Life Freedom, at Piccadilly Circus, and Pendry West Hollywood
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CNN: Shirin Neshat on telling complex stories through art
Hyperallergic: Stanford Arts Presents a Discussion With Shirin Neshat and Abbas Milani
Artnet: To Portray America’s Diversity in the Age of Polarization, Shirin Neshat Went to New Mexico to Photograph One of Its Poorest States
Hyperallergic: Reflecting on Shirin Neshat’s Career With the Artist’s Words
Laweekly: Shirin Neshat in the Land of Enchantment
Won Goethe Medal (2019).
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Artnet: Artist Shirin Neshat Is Mining Her Personal History to Make a Film About the Immigrant Experience Debuting This Fall
The Broad Museum in Los Angeles presented a 30-year retrospective of Neshat's work: Shirin Neshat: I Will Greet the Sun Again; the show traveled to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in 2021
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Asia Society: Viewpoints: A Conversation with Shirin Neshat and Shahzia Sikander
Awarded Praemium Imperiale (2017).
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MutualArt.com: The Home of My Eyes: An Interview with Shirin Neshat
Neshat was selected and photographed by Annie Leibovitz as part of the 43rd Pirelli Calendar
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Newsweek: Shirin Neshat’s Photos of the Egyptian Revolution
Had an exhibition titled "Afterwards", at the Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art
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Neshat created her second live performance, OverRuled, for Performa 11
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Neshat was named Artist of the Decade by Huffington Post critic G
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Neshat appeared in an episode of the German documentary television series Durch die Nacht mit
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Earned Silver Lion (2009).
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Won the Silver Lion for best director at the 66th Venice Film Festival for her directorial debut Women Without Men, based on Shahrnush Parsipur's novel of the same name
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Was awarded The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, one of the richest prizes in the arts, given annually to "a man or woman who has made an outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and mankind's enjoyment and
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Was awarded an honorary professorship at the Universität der Künste, Berlin
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And toured to the Walker Art Institute in Minneapolis and Artangel in London
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Neshat revealed: "Music becomes the soul, the personal, the intuitive, and neutralizes the sociopolitical aspects of the work
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And the Silver Lion as the best director at the 66th Venice Film Festival in 2009, to being named Artist of the Decade by HuffPost critic G
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When she won the International Award of the XLVIII Venice Biennale with Turbulent and Rapture, a project involving almost 250 extras and produced by the Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont which met with critical and public succe
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“Sometimes the boundaries between Aida and myself are blurred.”
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Neshat began earnestly to make art again, starting with photography
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Neshat returned to Iran, one year after Ayatollah Khomeini's death
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Neshat left Iran to study art at University of California, Berkeley and completed her BA, MA and MFA degrees
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Born 1957-03-26.
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