Shirin Neshat Biography 1957 Born in Qazvin, Iran 1990 Recipient of a Sponsored Project Grant, New York State Council on the Arts 1992 Artist in Residence, Henry Street Settlement, New York 1995 Recipient of a Mid-Atlantic Photography Fellowship 1995 Recipient of an Art Matters Grant 1996 Recipient of a New York Foundation for Arts Photography Fellowship 1996 Recipient of a grant from Tiffany Foundation 1999 First International Prize, 48th Venice Biennale 1999 Prize for Best Project, ARCO, Madrid, Spain 2000 CalArts, Alpert Award in the Arts, Pasadena, CA 2000 Visual Art Award, “Herald Angel," Edinburgh International Festival 2000 Grand Prix, Kwangju Biennale, Seoul, Korea 2001 Visiting Artist, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME 2002 Infinity Award for Visual Art, International Center for Photography, New York 2003 Honoree at The First Annual Risk Takers in the Arts 2003 Celebration, given by The Sundance Institute, New York 2003 ZeroOne Award, Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany 2003 Fine Art Prize, Heitland Foundation, Celle, Germany 2005 Award, Hiroshima City Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan Now Lives in New York City Selected Exhibitions 2008 “Shirin Neshat,” Gladstone Gallery, New York 2008 “Shirin Neshat: New Works,” Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris 2008 “Women Without Men,” ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark 2008 “Me Ophelia,” The Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, NL 2008 “Stereotypes,” The Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany 2008 “Wanderers in Contemporary Video Art,” Museo Civico, Commune di Siena, Siena, Italy 2007 “Foto.Kunst,” Essl Museum, Vienna 2007 "Kunst Film Biennale," Köln 2007 "Ten Years," Emily Tsingou Gallery, London 2007 "So Close / So Far Away," BE-Part Platform voor actuele kunst, Waregem 2007 "Weltempfänger," Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg 2007 “Shirin Neshat,” Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal 2006 “Shirin Neshat,” Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, NL (solo) 2006 “Shirin Neshat,” Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland (solo) 2006 ”Shirin Neshat: The Last Word,” Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (solo) 2006 “Shirin Neshat,” Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam, NL (solo) 2006 "Kapital," Kent Gallery, New York 2006 "Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection," Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki 2006 "A Selected State," emily Tsingou gallery, London, England 2006 "Reverence," Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York 2005 “Zarin,” Gladstone Gallery, New York (solo) 2005 Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum Für Gegenwart, Berlin (solo) 2005 Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Leon, Spain (solo) 2005 Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan (solo) 2005 “Remapped Realities,” Eyebeam, New York 2005 “Some Stories,” Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria 2005 “Figure It Out,” Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York 2004 Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand (solo) 2004 “Non Toccare La Donna Bianca:, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’Arte, Turin 2004 “In Bed”, Toyota Art Museum, Japan 2004 “From Bonifatius to Beuys,” Kunsthalle Erfurt, Germany 2004 “The Parallell World of Marrakech,” Lille 2004, France 2003 “Tooba” Asia Society Museum, New York (solo) 2003 Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal (solo) 2003 Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam (solo) 2003 Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City (solo) 2003 “ICP Triennial of Photography and Video,: International Center of Photography, New York 2003 “Bill Viola and Shirin Neshat,” The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia 2003 “Fantasies of the Harem and the New Sherezades," Centre de Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona 2003 "The Natural Cosmos," Staadtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany 2002 Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy (solo) 2002 Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (solo) 2002 Banco di Brasil, Rio de Janeiro (solo) 2002 Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark (solo) 2002 "Diversions," Contemporary Art Museum, Baltimore 2002 "Synopsis II-Theologies,” The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens 2002 "Alter Ego,” Jean-Gabriel Mitterand Galerie, Paris 2002 "Moving Pictures," Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York 2001 “Galerie Farschou, 1986-2001,” Galeri Farschou, Copenhagen, Denmark 2001 “Fervor,” Tensta Konsthall, Spanga, Sweden 2001 "New Acquisitions from the Dakis Joannou Collection,” Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens 2001 Biennial de Valencia, Valencia, Spain 2001 Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montreal; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Miami Art Museum (solo) 2001 Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (solo) 2001 Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York (solo) 2000 Serpentine Gallery, London (solo) 2000 Pitti Discovery, Florence, Italy (solo) 2000 Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (solo) 2000 Lia Rumma, Milan, Italy (solo) 2000 Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio (solo) 2000 "Corpo Chimico,” Cá di Fra, Milan, Italy 2000 "Photography Now: An International Survey of Contemporary Photography," Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Lousiiana 2000 "Erresitentziak/Resistencias," Koldo Mitxelena, Donostia-San Sebastian 2000 "La Beauté in Avignon," Avignon, France 1999 "Heaven: An Exhibition That Will Break Your Heart," Tate Gallery Liverpool, England 1999 "Zeitwenden: Rückblick und Ausblick," Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany 1999 "Project 70: Shirin Neshat, Simon Patterson, Xu Bing," The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1999 "Voiceovers," Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 1999 Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden (solo) 1999 Art Institute of Chicago (solo) 1999 D’Amelio Terras, New York (solo) 1999 Henie Onstad Artsentre, Oslo, Norway (solo) 1998 Tate Gallery, London, England (solo) 1998 Whitney Museum of American Art, Philip Morris Branch, New York (solo) 1998 Thomas Rehbein Gallery, Köln (solo) 1998 "Unfinished History” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis 1998 "In The Detail” Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany 1997 "Triple X: Contemporary Investigating Arts," International Art Festival, Amsterdam, Holland 1997 "Der Rest der Welt” Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, Germany 1997 "International Art Festival City of Medellin," Medellin, Columbia 1997 Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovania (solo) 1997 Annina Nosei Gallery, New York (solo) 1997 Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, Holland (solo) 1996 Centre d’Art Contemporain Kunsthalle, Fribourg, Switzerland (solo) 1996 Marco Noire Contemporary Arts, Turin, Italy (solo) 1996 "Jurassic Technologies Revenant, Sydney Biennial” Australia 1996 "Le Masque et le Miroir” Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France 1995 "Orientation," USA participation, Istanbul Biennial 95, Turkey 1995 "Transculture” Venice Biennial 95, Venice 1995 Annina Nosei Gallery, New York (solo) 1994 "Three New Photographers," Haines Gallery, San Francisco 1994 "Revolving Histories,” SF Camerawork, San Francisco 1994 "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 1993 Franklin Furnace, New York (solo) 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 2002 "Logic of the Birds," Lincoln Center, New York, July 12-13 2002 "Logic of the Birds," ArtAngel, London, November 7-17 2001 “Logic of the Birds (Phase One),” The Kitchen, New York Film Screenings 2004 Brooklyn Art Museum 2004 Museum of Modern Art, New York 2004 Melbourne Arts Festival 2004 Santa Barbara Film festival 2004 Nemo Film Festival, Paris 2004 Unesco Headquarter, Paris 2003 Sundance Film Festival, Salt Lake City 2003 Smithsonian Institution, Freer and Sackler Galleries, Washington D.C. 2003 UCLA Film and Television Archive, Los Angeles 2003 Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago 2003 Tribeca Film Festival, New York 2003 Athens International Film Festival 2003 Edinburgh International Film festival 2003 Kunst Film Biennale, Cologne 2002 Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland 2002 Dans Le Cadre Du Festival International De Films De Fribourg, Centre D'Art 2002 Contemporain Kunsthalle, Fribourg, France 2002 "Outer & Inner Space: A Video Exhibition in Three Parts/Part Two," Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond 2002 Forum des Images, Paris 2002 Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Athens, Greece 2002 Philadelphia Museum of Art 2001 Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago 2001 San Francisco Film Festival, San Francisco, CA 2001 London Iranian Film Festival, London 2001 Virginia Film Festival, Charlottesville, VA 2001 Pacific Film Archive Festival, Oakland, CA 2000 Telluride Film Festival, Telluride, CO 2000 Locamo Film Festival, Switzerland 2000 Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Literature 2006 “Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking”, New Yorker, April 17, 2006, pg. 13 2006 Green, Tyler, “MOMA Keeps the Walls Clean; Islamic Show Sans Politics”, The New York Observer, April 3, 2006 2006 The Conscious Reader, Tenth Edition, Pearson Education Inc, New York, pp.188-9. 2005 Paparoni, Demetrio, L’arte contemporanea e il suo metodo, Grafica Veneta S.p.A. di Trebaseleghe. Venice. 2005 2005 Ravenal, John, “Shirin Neshat: Double Vision” in Reclaiming Female Agency: Feminist Art History After Postmodernism, edited by Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005, pp. 447-458. 2005 Art 2: Practice, eds. Margaret Marsh, Michelle Watts, Craig Malyon, New York: Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 256. 2004 Thorson, Alice, “Women resisting repression,” The Kansas City Star, Dec. 19, 2004. 2004 McNamara, TJ. “Raw Power from the Shadows.” New Zealand Harold, September 1st. 2004 Brownson, Ron. Through the Eyes of Shirin Neshat. Auckland Art Gallery, August 2004. 2003 Aghdashloo, Aydeen. Cultural Criticism: Conversations on Art. Published by Fanoos, Tehran, Iran. (Chapter on Shirin Neshat, pp. 193-201). 2003 Riveroli, Julieta. “Atribuye Censura a Poder Expresivo.” Reforma, Mexico, June 5, 2003. 2003 Vitali, Valentina. “Between Art and Cinema: A Conversation with Shirin Neshat.” N Paradoxa. Volume 12. 2003, pp. 33 43. 2002 Price, Stuart. “Don’t Miss.” The Independent, London. November 1, 2002. 2002 Macdonald, Susan. “Artist in search of truth after the revolution.” The Times. October 26, 2002, pp. 8-9 and section cover. 2002 Art Tomorrow, Edward Lucie-Smith, Paris 2002 2001 Great Themes in Art, John Walford, Prentice Hall. 2001 Nejadmehr, Rasoul, “Den kvinnliga blickens hemlighet (“The Secret of the Female Gaze”),” Divan, 1-2. 2001 Root, Deborah, “The Ambivalent Yearnings of Shirin Neshat,” Prefix Photo, Volume 2, Number 2, pp. 48-61. 2000 Malik, Amna, “The Poetics of the Veil,” Portfolio, issue #32. 2000 Schjeldahl, Peter, “Pragmatic Hedonism,” The New Yorker, April 3. 2000 Shirin Neshat: Two Installations, Bill Horrigan, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. 1999 Cream. Contemporary Art in Culture, New York, Phaidon Press. 1999 Miller, Paul, “Motion Picture: Shirin Neshat’s Turbulent,” Parkett, issue #54. 1999 Neel, Alex, “Shirin Neshat: Turbulent,” Time Out New York, January 7. 1998 Geneva Anderson, “Fundamentale Gesichtspunkte: Ein Gesprach mit Shirin Neshat,” Neue Bildende Kunst. 1998 Goodman, Jonathan, “Poetic Justice: Shirin Neshat Defends the Faith,” World Art, issue #16. 1997 Kleinschmidt, Klaus, “Shirin Neshat,” Spiegel Das KulturMagazin EXTRA Border/Lines, Toronto, Canada, February 1997 Paldi, Livia, “Allah asszonyai,” interview, Budapest, Hungary, Balkon, June. 1997 Shirin Neshat, Marco Noire Contemporary Art, solo exhibition catalogue, Turin, Italy. 1996 Echoes: Contemporary Art at the Age of Endless Conclusions, edited by Francesco Bonami, published by The Monacelli Press, New York. 1996 Lemme, Maria Tiziana, “Femminismo e chador, le donne di Allah,” Naples, Italy, Il Mattino, February. 1996 Smith, Roberta, “In Tomblike Vaults, the Future Flickers and Hums,” The New York Times, August 9. 1995 Zaya, Octavio, “Neshat: Quiero contarel complejo mundo de la mujer musulmana,” Spain, DIARIO 16. 1995 Turner, Jonathan, “Biennial Blues,” Artnews, Summer 1995 Orientation: 4th International Istanbul Biennial Transculture, Biennial of Venice, exhibition catalogue, Venice, Italy. 1994 Beyond the Borders: Art by Recent Immigrants, exhibition catalogue, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY. 1994 Zaya, Octavio, “Shirin Neshat and the Women of Allah,” interview, France, Purple Prose #7. 1994 Wallach, Amei, “Rejecting The Melting Pot: My Canvas, My Self, Shirin Neshat,” New York Newsday. 1993 Bobby, Kate, “Exploring the Secrets of the Veil,” interview, New Directions For Women. 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