Shirin Neshat (b.1957, Qazvin, Iran)
Shirin Neshat,Portrait by Jamie Isaia.Courtesy Gladstone Gallery.
Shirin Neshat, Red Self Portrait, (in fake blood), 1999, Cibachrome, 40 x 30". courtesy Brent Sikkema Galllery
Shirin Neshat was born 1957, Qazvin, Iran. She has lived in the United States since 1974, portrays the emotional space of exile in her photographs and films. She questions the role of women in Islamic society, recognizing the tensions between a collective cultural identity and one driven by individual concerns. Neshat emphasizes this theme with the technique of showing two or more coordinated films concurrently, creating stark visual contrasts through such motifs as light and dark, black and white, male and female. Neshat has also made more traditional narrative short films, such as "Zarin."
Excerpts from Erudition Online "Enduring assumptions of what constitutes an "Islamic woman" are at once domestic to that culture and colonially crafted on it. With a singular strike of creative genius, Shirin Neshat manages to target both of these divergent yet colliding agents. The history of Shirin Neshat's bodily portrayals of this "Islamic woman" is the unwritten chronicle of a mute and concealed femininity. Her photographs show and tell what has been forbidden to show and tell. That she manages to do this without violating the bodily codes of an "Islamic woman" marks the site of her creative imagination."
Works[]
- Zarin, 2005. Single channel video/audio installation.
- Mahdokht, 2004. Three channel video/audio installation.
- The Last Word, 2003. Single channel video/audio installation.
- Logic of the Birds, 2002. Multi-media Performance.
- Passage, 2001. Single channel video/audio installation.
- Rapture, 1999. Two channel video/audio installation.
- Turbulent, 1998. Two channel video/audio installation.
Exhibitions[]
Selected Solo Exhibitions[]
2006
- ”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
Internal links[]
- Iran
- Shirin Neshat: Islamic Counterpoints, Art in America, Oct, 2001 by Amei Wallach
- Women in black - Islamic fundamentalism in the photographs of Shirin Neshat, Art Journal, Winter, 2001 by Igor Zabel
External links[]
- Shirin Neshat on artnet[1]
- BOMB Magazine: Shirin Neshat[2]
- Gladstone Gallery[3]
- Guggenheim Museum - Moving Pictutres[4]
- Iranian Visual Arts:Shirin Neshat[5]
- Shirin Neshat and Resistance in RES[6]shirinneshatandresistanceinres_2003-07-09.html
- TIME Europe|Photo Essay - Shirin Neshat|August 2000[7]
- Contemporary Art from the Islamic World[8]
- Hamburger Kunsthalle, Shirin Neshat 26 January - 29 April 2001[9]
- EGO Magazine[10]