Shirin Neshat | |
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![]() Neshat at the Viennale 2009 | |
Born | Qazvin, Imperial State of Iran | March 26, 1957
Nationality | Iranian-American |
Education | University of California, Berkeley (BA, MA, MFA) |
Known for | Mixed media performance, video installations, photography |
Notable work | The Shadow under the Web (1997), Speechless (1996), Women without Men (2004)[1] Rapture (1999) |
Movement | Contemporary art |
Spouse | Kyong Park (divorced)[2] |
Partner | Shoja Azari[2] |
Awards | Silver Lion Venice Film Festival, Golden Lion Venice Biennale |
Shirin Neshat (Persian: شیرین نشاط; born March 26, 1957)[3][4] is an Iranian photographer and visual artist who lives in New York City, known primarily for her work in film, video and photography.[5][6] 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.[1][7]
Since the Islamic Revolution, she has said that she has "gravitated toward making art that is concerned with tyranny, dictatorship, oppression and political injustice. Although I don’t consider myself an activist, I believe my art – regardless of its nature – is an expression of protest, a cry for humanity.”[8]
Neshat has been recognized for winning the International Award of the XLVIII Venice Biennale in 1999,[9] and the Silver Lion as the best director at the 66th Venice Film Festival in 2009,[10] to being named Artist of the Decade by Huffington Post critic G. Roger Denson.[11] Neshat is a critic in the photography department at the Yale School of Art.[12]
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