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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 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, op
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"Women Without Men"
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As part of the citywide biennial, Prospect.1 New Orleans, an exhibit of work by internationally renowned artist Shirin Neshat opens at the Newcomb Art Gallery on Saturday (Nov. 1).
This photograph by artist Shirin Neshat is entitled “Women Without Men (woman knitting),” 2004. (Courtesy of Gladstone Gallery)
The exhibition, “Shirin Neshat: Women Without Men,” consists of four video installations from an ongoing film project inspired by Shahrnush Parsipur's surrealist novel Women Without Men (Zanan Bedun-e Mardan), banned by the Iranian government in 1989.
In each installation, Mahdokht, Zarin, Munis and Faezeh, the artist explores single narratives from the author's interwoven tale of outcast Iranian women to comment on the lives of real women in traditional Muslim societies.
“Shirin Neshat is one of the most important contemporary artists working today,” said gallery director Charles M. Lovell, “so we are excited that the Newcomb Art Gallery was chosen to exhibit her work as part of Prospect.1. And although she explores social issues specific to Iran, audiences will see that she also transcends cultural boundaries in order to present universa