SHIRIN NESHAT (b. 1957, Qazvin, Iran) lives and works in New York.
Shirin Neshat’s photographic and video work engages the viewer through powerful images, sweeping scores, and evocations of human passions and desires, while examining the social tropes that both stratify and unite. Neshat pitches these dialectics of East/West, man/woman, and oppressor/oppressed, to such a degree that these seemingly immutable polarities become malleable locations for query. In her latest work, Neshat continues her exploration of Shahrnush Parsipur’s novel Women Without Men.
Neshat has had solo exhibitions at the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City; the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland; Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Dallas Museum of Art, TX; Wexner Center, Columbus, OH; The Art Institute of Chicago, IL; Serpentine Gallery, London; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Leon, Spain; and the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin. She has been included in Documenta XI; the Venice Biennale (1999); and the Whitney Biennial (2000). She has been awarded the First International Award at the Venice Biennale (1999); the Hiroshima Freedom Prize; and the Lillian Gish Prize.
Neshat is represented by Gladstone Gallery in New York.