Bio

Artist
Shirin Neshat
Photograph by Lyle Ashton Harris. Courtesy of the artist and CRG Gallery, New York.

About

Shirin Neshat is an Iranian-born artist/filmmaker living in New York.

AWARDS AND HONORS

  • Golden Lion Award at 48th Venice Biennale, 1999
  • Lillian Gish Prize, 2006
  • Neshat's first feature length film "Women Without Men" received the Silver Lion Award in the 66th Venice International Film Festival in 2009.

ON THE WEB

Notable Exhibitions

SOLO

  • Gladstone Gallery, New York
  • Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris
  • Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, England
  • National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
  • Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
  • Serpentine Gallery, London
  • Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, León, Spain
  • Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
  • Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montréal
  • Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
  • Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

GROUP

  • Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York
  • Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
  • Ford Foundation, New York
  • Jewish Museum, Berlin
  • Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California

FILM SCREENINGS

  • Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
  • Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah
  • International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  • New Directors/New Films, New York