Shirin neshat artwork
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Shirin Neshat
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 Huffington Post critic G. Roger Denson. Neshat was a visiting critic in the photography department at the Yale School of Art in 2020.
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Shirin Neshat
Iranian artist, film director, and photographer
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Neshat at the Viennale 2009 | |
| Born | (1957-03-26) March 26, 1957 (age 67) Qazvin, Imperial State of Iran |
| 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 bridg
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Shirin Neshat
On 20 January, the Iranian-born filmmaker and artist Shirin Neshat joined the Women’s March in New York to mark the anniversary of President Donald Trump’s first year in office. The week before, she was at a protest in Union Square in support of the people’s uprising in Iran. Shirin is politically engaged beyond the lyrical films she makes exploring the place of Muslim women in Middle Eastern societies. Her work has been widely lauded — from the Golden Lion she won at the 1999 Venice Biennale to the prestigious Praemium Imperiale awarded last year by the Japan Art Association.
More than any artist living today, Shirin has demonstrated the place and the power of art in confronting and reflecting on political crises.
One day in 1983, when Shirin Neshat was 26, she walked out on her life. She left nearly all her belongings in the apartment in Marin County, north of San Francisco, that she shared with her then boyfriend – a person she was “in a hurry to get away from” – and boarded a flight to New York. In the process, she abandoned dozens of paintings, prin
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