Shirin Neshat

Known for DirectingBorn 1957-03-26 (age 69)Qazvin, Iran

Shirin Neshat ( شیرین نشاط‎, born March 26, 1957 Qazvin) is an Iranian 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 Iran has undermined basic human rights, particularly 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 countless times for her work, from winning the International Award of the XLVIII Venice Biennale in 1999, to winning the Silver Lion for 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 is a critic in the photography department at the Yale School of Art.Read more

Movies & web series

9/11/03: A Day in the Life of New York

Turbulent

Tooba

Body of Truth

Possessed

Women Without Men

War Paint: Women at War

Looking for Oum Kulthum

Rapture

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

K

Illusions & Mirrors

Land of Dreams

Fervor

Zarin

Orfeo ed Euridice – Teatro Regio di Parma

Oh, What Happy Days!

Can Creativity Save the World?

The Fury

The Colony

Land of Dreams

Aida - Verdi - Salzburg Festival

Roja

Sarah

Axis of Light

Passage

Soliloquy