Born in 1957, Qazvin,Iran
Lives in New York, U.S.A.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
\"The Book of Kings,\" Gladstone Gallery, Nova Iorque, E.U.A. | New York, USA
2011
\"Women Without Men,\" Palazzo Reale, Milão, Itália | Milan, Italy
\"Shirin Neshat: Soliloquy,\" Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, Inglaterra | England
2010
\"Shirin Neshat\", La Fabrica Gallery, Bruxelas, Bélgica | Brussels, Belgium
2009
\"Games of Desire,\" Gladstone Gallery, Brussels
\"Games of Desire,\" Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris
Women Without Men,\" National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
\"Shirin Neshat: Turbulent,\" Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen
2008
\"Shirin Neshat,\" Gladstone Gallery, New York
\"Shirin Neshat: New Works,\" Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris
\"Women Without Men,\" ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark
\"Women Without Men,\" Gallery Faurschou, Beijing
\"Shirin Neshat,\" National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjevik
2007
Shirin Neshat,\" Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal
2006
\"Shirin Neshat,\" Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
\"Shirin Neshat: The Last Word,\" Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
\"Shirin Neshat,\" Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam, NL
\"Shirin Neshat,\" Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2005
Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum Für Gengewart, Berlin
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Leon, Spain
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
2004
Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand
2003
\"Tooba\" Asia Society Museum, New York
Miami Art Museum, Miami ( Montreal Exhibition)
Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal
Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam
Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX ( Montreal Exhibition
2002
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN ( Montreal Exhibition)
Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Banco di Brasil, Rio de Janeiro
Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
\"Passage,\" Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh, PA
2001
Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montreal (Travelling)
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Patrick Painter, Santa Monica, CA
Barbara Gladstone Gallery , New York
Kanazawa Contemporary Art Museum, Kanazawa, Japan
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
2000
Serpentine Gallery, London
Pitti Discovery, Florence, Italy
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Lia Rumma, Milan, Italy
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Matrix, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Wexner Center, Columbus, OH
1999
Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
Art Institute of Chicago
Patrick Painter Gallery, Los Angeles
D'Amelio Terras, New York
Galerie Jerôme de Noirmont, Paris
Henie Onstad Artsentre, Oslo, Norway
Tensta Konsthall, Spanga, Sweden
1998
Tate Gallery, London, England
Whitney Museum of American Art, Philip Morris Branch, New York
Maison Européene de la Photographie, Paris
Thomas Rehbein Gallery, Köln
1997
Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovania
Annina Nosei Gallery , New York
Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, Holland
Artspeak, Vancouver, Canada
1996
Centre d'Art Contemporain Kunsthalle, Fribourg, Switzerland
Marco Noire Contemporary Arts, Turin, Italy
Lucio Amelio Gallery, Naples, Italy
Haines Gallery, San Francisco
1995
Annina Nosei Gallery , New York
1993
Franklin Furnace , New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
\"Every Exit is an Entrance: 30 Years of Exit Art,\" Exit Art, New York
\"Half of the Sky: Visualized,\" Contmemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut
2011
\"Beyond Conventions: Reimagining Human Rights in a Time of Change,\" Ford Foundation, New York
\"In The Name of the Artists,\" American Contemporary Art from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Bienal Pavilion, São Paulo
\"TRA. Edge of Becoming,\" Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
I Know Something About Love,\" curated by Ziba Ardalan, Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London
2010
\"Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection,\" San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
\"ARTE Y POLITICA : CONFLICTOS Y DISYUNTIVAS,\" Museo de Arte de Culiacán, Culiacán
\"Exposure: Photos from the Vault,\" Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
\"Disquieted,\" Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
\"Diabolique,\" Galierie de l'Uquam, Montreal
2009
\"Bad Habits,\" Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
\"BAROCK,\" MADRE Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples
\"Being in the World: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection,\" Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami
\"Shirin Neshat e Shoja Azari,\" Noire Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy
\"The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women,\" Cheim and Read, New York
\"Iran Inside Out,\" Chelsea Art Museum, New York
\"Photographic Power and Violence, Disease, and Death Photographed,\" Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
\"Typical, Clichees of Jews and Others,\" Spertus Museum, Chicago; Jewish Museum of Vienna, Vienna
2008
\"Prospect..1: New Orleans International Biennial\" New Orleans
\"Me Ophelia,\" The Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
\"Stereotypes,\" The Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany; Spertus Museum, Chicago; The Jewish Museum, Vienna
\"Wanderers in Contemporary Video Art,\" Museo Civico, Commune di Siena, Siena, Italy
\"Paixóns Privadas, Visións Públicas Collections D.O. Galicia,\" Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
2007
\"Foto.Kunst,\" Essl Museum, Vienna
\"Kunst Film Biennale,\" Köln
\"Ten Years,\" Emily Tsingou Gallery, London
\"So Close / So Far Away,\" BE-Part Platform voor actuele kunst, Waregem
\"Weltempfänger,\" Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
\"After The Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art,\" Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Long Island City, New York
Programs, Long Island City, New York
\"Border-Crossing Exercises,\" Galleri Nord Norge, Norway
\"Not for Sale,\" P.S.1, New York
\"Lights Camera Action: Artist's Film for the Cinema,\" Whitney, New York
2006
\"Kapital,\" Kent Gallery, New York
\"Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection,\" Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki
\"A Selected State,\" emily Tsingou gallery, London, England
\"Reverence,\" Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York
2005
\"Translation,\" Palais de Tokyo, Paris
\"Remapped Realities,\" Eyebeam, New York
\"Some Stories,\" Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria
\"Beauty, House of World Culture, Berlin
\"Important, Modern and Contemporary Art,\" Gary Nader, Miami, Florida
\"Figure It Out,\" Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York
2004
\"Non Toccare La Donna Bianca:, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l'Arte,Turin
Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico
\"In Bed\", Toyota Art Museum, Japan
\"From Bonifatius to Beuys,\" Kunsthalle Erfurt, Germany
\"Monument to Now,\" Deste Foundation, Athens
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
\"The Parallell World of Marrakech,\" Lille 2004, France
\"Transculture,\" Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
\"Far Near Distance,\" House of World Culture, Berlin
\"Masterpieces from the museum of Contemporary Art\", Chicago; Villa Manin Center of Contemporary Art, Udine, Italy
2003
\"Bill Viola and Shirin Neshat,\" The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia
\"Moving Pictures,\" Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
\"Fantasies of the Harem and the New Sherezades,\" Centre de Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona
\"Elsewhere,\" UCLA Fowler Museum, Los Angeles
\"The Natural Cosmos,\" Staadtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
\"Imagining Prometheus,\" Palazzo della Ragione, Milan
\"Nouredine Amir,\" ModeMuseum, Antwerp, Belgium
\"Films of the Iranian Diaspora,\" Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago
\"Armour:The Fortification of Man,\" Foundation Fort Asperen, Acquoy, The Netherlands
\"ICP Triennial of Photography and Video,: International Center of Photography, New York
2002
\"Diversions,\" Contemporary Art Museum, Baltimore
\"Synopsis II-Theologies,\" The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
\"Alter Ego,\" Jean-Gabriel Mitterand Galerie, Paris
\"Recent Acquisitions,\" Solomon R. Guggeheim Museum of Art, New York
The Beauty of the Evil,\" De Zonnehof, Amersfoort, The Netherlands; Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany
\"Picturing Ourselves,\" Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
\"Moving Pictures,\" Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York
\"Visions from America,\" Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
\"Iconos Metropolitanos,\" Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
\"New Art,\" Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran
\"Real Life,\" Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, England
2001
\"Galerie Farschou, 1986-2001,\" Galeri Farschou, Copenhagen, Denmark
\"Fervor,\" Tensta Konsthall, Spanga, Sweden
\"Black + White,\" Blains Fine Art, London
\"New Acquisitions from the Dakis Joannou Collection,\" Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens
Beyeler Foundation, Basel, Switzerland
Biennial de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
French Institut, Rabbat, Morocco
Croatian Photographic Union, Croatia
\"Arte Contemporaneo Internacional,\" Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
\"The Beauty of the Evil,\" Armando Museum, Amsterdam
2000
\"Corpo Chimico,\" Cá di Fra, Milan, Italy
\"Photography Now: An International Survey of Contemporary Photography,\"
Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Lousiiana
\"State of the Art: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions,\" Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
\"Erresitentziak/Resistencias,\" Koldo Mitxelena, Donostia-San Sebastian
The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh
Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France
\"La Beauté in Avignon,\" Avignon, France
\"Continental Shift,\" Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
Biennale of Sydney, Australia
Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, Korea
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
\"Outbound. Passages from the 90's,\" Contemporary Art Museum, Houston
\"Greater New York. New Art in New York Now,\" PS1, New York
\"Contact: A 90's Journal,\" Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
\"THE END: An Independent Vision of Contemporary Culture, 1982-2000,\" Exit Art, New York
1999
\"Heaven: An Exhibition That Will Break Your Heart,\" Tate Gallery Liverpool, England
\"Zeitwenden: Rückblick und Ausblick,\" Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
\"Shirin Neshat: Rapture/ Pipilotti Rist: Sip My Ocean,\" The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
Voiceovers,\" Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
\"Project 70: Shirin Neshat, Simon Patterson, Xu Bing,\" The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
\"My Culture? My Self. Lee Friedlander, Gerhard Richter, Christian Boltanski, Shirin Neshat,\" Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto, Ontario
\"La Biennale di Venezia,\" Venice, Italy
\"Exploding Cinema,\" Rotterdam Film Festival, Boijman Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
\"Unfinished History\" by Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
\"Video Cultures\" ZKM/Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
\"La Ville, Le Jardin, la Memoire\" Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
\"Global Art Rheinland 2000,\" Ludwig Museum, Köln, Germany
\"SITE SANTA FE: Looking For A Place,\" Santa Fe
\"Zeitwenden-outlook into the next millennium,\" Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
\"Heavenly Figure,\" Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
1998
\"Unfinished History\" Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
\"In The Detail\" Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
\"7 th Summer of Photography,\" Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium
\"Mar de Fondo\" Roman Theatre of Sagunto, Valencia, Spain
\"Vanessa Beecroft & Shirin Neshat,\" Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
\"Maschile Femminile e oltre\" Palazzo Branciforte, Palermo, Italy
\"Mostrato\" Pescara, Italy
\"ECHOLOT\" Museum Fridercianum Kassel, Germany
\"Transatlantico\" Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Canary Islands, Spain
\"A Noir,\" Triennale di Milano, Italy
\"Interference,\" Comunidad de Madrid, Spain
\"Genders and Nations: Reflections on Women in Revolution\" Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
\"5 Th International Istanbul Biennale: On Life, Beauty, Translations and OtherDifficulties\" Istanbul, Turkey
\"2 nd Johannesburg Biennale 1997, Trade Routes: History and Geography\" Johannesburg, South Africa
\"Unbeschreiblich Weiblich\" Fotomanifestatie Noorderlicht, Groningen, Holland
1997
\"Triple X: Contemporary Investigating Arts,\" International Art Festival, Amsterdam, Holland
\"Der Rest der Welt\" Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, Germany
\"International Art Festival City of Medellin,\" Medellin, Columbia
\"Foto text/text foto\" Museum of Modern Art, Bolzano, Italy
Frankfurt Kunstverein, Germany
\"Le Masque et le Miroir\" Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
\"Jurassic Technologies Revenant, Sydney Biennial\" Australia
\"Le Masque et le Miroir\" Rencontres
Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
\"Inclusion/Exclusion\" Kunstlerhaus, Graz, Austria
\"Radical Images: Austrian Triennal of Photography 1996,\" Neue Galerie; Kunstlerhause, Graz, Austria
Kunsthalle Szombathely , Hungary
\"Interzones\" Kunstforeningen Gl. Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark
Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden
\"Ghostwriter\" (a project in collaboration with Jamielie Hassan), Mercer Union, Toronto,Ontario
\"Group Exhibition,\" Haines Gallery, San Francisco
\"Auf Den Leib\" Kunsthalle, Vienna
\"Gallery Artists,\" Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, Holland
\"Imaginary Beings\" Exit Art, New York
Video Installation commissioned by Creative Time for Anchorage, Brooklyn Bridge, New York
1995
\"Orientation,\" USA participation, Istanbul Biennial 95, Turkey
\"Transculture\" Venice Biennial 95, Venice
Contemporary Art Museum, Okayama, Japan
\"Campo ‘95\" Venice Biennial 95, Italy
Fondazione Sandretto Rebaudengo Per L'Arte, Turin, Italy
\"It's How You Play the Game\" Exit Art, New York
1994
\"Three New Photographers,\" Haines Gallery, San Francisco
\"Revolving Histories,\" SF Camerawork, San Francisco
\"Selection from the Artists File\" Artists Space, New York
Labyrinth of Exile: Recent Works by Four Contemporary Iranian Artists,\" Fowler
Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, Los Angeles
\"Fever,\" Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio
\"Beyond the Borders: Art By Recent Immigrants,\"The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx
1993
\"The Office: History, Fantasy and Irregular Protocols,\" site-specific installations in an abandoned Wall Street office building, organized by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in New York
1990
\"Fever\" Exit Art Gallery, New York
MULTI MEDIA PERFORMANCE
2003
Logic of the Birds,\" Ortigia Festival, Syracuse, Siclily, July 25 - 27
2002
\"Logic of the Birds,\" Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN , June 20-23
\"Logic of the Birds,\" Lincoln Center, New York, July 12-13
\"Logic of the Birds,\" ArtAngel, London, November 7-17
2001
Logic of the Birds (Phase One),\" The Kitchen, New York
FILM SCREENINGS
2010
\"Women Without Men,\" New Directors/New Films, New York
\"Women Without Men,\" International Rotterdam Film Festival, Netherlands
\" Women Without Men,\" Sundance Film Festival, Utah
\" Women Without Men,\" Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
2009
Premier of \"Women Without Men\" at the 66 th Venice Film Festival, Italy
\"Women Without Men,\" London Film Festival, London, England
\"Women Without Men,\" Viennale Film Festival, Vienna, Austria
\"Women Without Men,\" KunstFilm Biennale, Cologne
\"Women Without Men,\" Dubai International Film Festival, Dubai
2008
Annnual Celebration of Iranian Cinema, UCLA Film Archive, California
2007
KunstFilm Biennale, Cologne
International Incheon Women Artists' Biennale, South Korea
Istanbul Film Festival, Istanbul
2006
Florida Golf Coast University
Art Tower-Mito, Japan
Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno-CAAM, Spain
Creative Time Inc, New York
2003
Sundance Film Festival, Salt Lake City
Smithsonian Institution, Freer and Sackler Galleries, Washington D.C.
UCLA Film and Television Archive, Los Angeles
Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago
Tribeca Film Festival, New York
Athens International Film Festival
Edinburgh International Film festival
Kunst Film Biennale, Cologne
2002
Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland
Dans Le Cadre Du Festival International De Films De Fribourg, Centre D'Art Contemporain Kunsthalle, Fribourg, France
\"Outer & Inner Space: A Video Exhibition in Three Parts/Part Two,\" Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Forum des Images, Paris
Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Athens, Greece
Philadelphia Museum of Art
2001
Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago
Francisco Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
London Iranian Film Festival, London
Virginia Film Festival, Charlottesville, VA
Pacific Film Archive Festival, Oakland, CA
2000
Telluride Film Festival, Telluride, CO
Locamo Film Festival, Switzerland
Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
AWARDS
2009
Silver Lion - Venice Film Festival
Prix La Navicella - Venice Film Festival
Prix Unicef - Venice Film Festival
Cinema for Peace Special Award - Hessischer Filmpreis, Germany
2008
Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship, New York
Cultural Achievement Award, Asia Society, New York
2006
Lillian Gish Prize, New York, New York
2005
Hiroshima City Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan
2003
Honoree at The First Annual Risk Takers in the Arts Celebration, given by The Sundance Institute, New York
ZeroOne Award, Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Fine Art Prize, Heitland Foundation, Celle, Germany
2002
Infinity Award for Visual Art, International Center for Photography, New York
2001
Visiting Artist, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2000
CalArts, Alpert Award in the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Visual Art Award, \"Herald Angel,\" Edinburgh International Festival
Grand Prix, Kwangju Biennale, Seoul, Korea
1999
First International Prize, 48 th Venice Biennale
Prize for Best Project, ARCO, Madrid, Spain
1996
Recipient of a New York Foundation for Arts Photography Fellowship
Recipient of a grant from Tiffany Foundation
1995
Recipient of a Mid-Atlantic Photography Fellowship
Recipient of an Art Matters Grant
1992
Artist in Residence, Henry Street Settlement, New York
1990
Recipient of a Sponsored Project Grant, New York State Council on the Arts
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Tate Britain, London (England)
Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC
Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Santa Monica, CA
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art - Kanazawa, Kanazawa
Fundación Telefónica, Madrid
Fondazione Querini Stampalia ONLUS, Venice
ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen
Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
T-B A21 - Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
MUDAM - Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Musac - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon