Shirin Neshat

1957 -

Country of citizenship: United States, Iran

Native language: Persian

Languages spoken, written or signed: Persian

Educated at: University of California, Berkeley

Occupation: photographer, film director, screenwriter, video artist, filmmaker, video installation artist, painter, documentarian, opera director, visual artist

Award received: Silver Lion, Praemium Imperiale, Goethe Medal

Student of: Sylvia Lark, Harold Paris

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Shirin Neshat (Persian: شیرین نشاط; born March 26, 1957) 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. 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.” Neshat has been recognized for winning the International Award of the XLVIII Venice Biennale in 1999, 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. Roger Denson. Neshat was a visiting critic in the photography department at the Yale School of Art in 2020. Source: Wikipedia (en)