Shirin Neshat (Persian: شیرین نشاط; born March 26, 1957 Qazvin) is an Iranian visual artiste who lives in New York City, known primarily for her enactment in film, video and photography. Her artwork centers upon the contrasts in the midst of Islam and the West, femininity and masculinity, public vigor and private life, antiquity and modernity, and bridging the spaces in the midst of these subjects.
Since Iran has undermined basic human rights, particularly before the Islamic Revolution she has said that she has “gravitated toward making art that is concerned following tyranny, dictatorship, oppression and diplomatic injustice. Although I don’t deem myself an activist, I take my art – regardless of its nature – is an trip out of protest, a cry for humanity.”
Neshat has been ascribed for winning the International Award of the XLVIII Venice Biennale in 1999, and the Silver Lion as the best director at the 66th Venice Film Festival in 2009, to mammal 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.
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