Shirin Neshat (d. 1957, Kazvin) lisans eğitimini Kaliforniya Üniversitesi, Berkeley’de tamamladı. Seçili kişisel sergileri arasında Born of Fire, Parrish Art Museum, New York (2025); The Fury, Dirimart Pera, İstanbul (2024); Land of Dreams, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto (2022); Land of Dreams, Dirimart Dolapdere, İstanbul (2022); Soliloquy, Tate Modern, Londra (2021); Shirin Neshat: Dreamers, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2019); Shirin Neshat, The National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik (2008); Shirin Neshat, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2006); Shirin Neshat, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (2005); Shirin Neshat, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2002); Shirin Neshat, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Atina (2001); Shirin Neshat, Kunsthalle Wien, Viyana (2000); Concentrations 34: Shirin Neshat, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas (2000); FOCUS: Shirin Neshat, Rapture, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (1999) ve Shirin Neshat: Turbulent, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1998) yer alıyor. Seçili grup sergileri arasında Memory and Matter: Personal and Collective Histories, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz (2026); All These Growing Things, Tang Teaching Museum, New York (2025); Bodies of Knowledge, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans (2019); Lights, Camera, Action: Artist's Film for the Cinema, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2007); ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York (2003); Documenta 11, Kassel (2002); Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2002); Whitney Biennial, New York (2000); Lyon Bienali (2000); Sidney Bienali (2000); Carnegie International (1999); Venedik Bienali (1999); İstanbul Bienali (1998); Johannesburg Bienali (1997); Austrian Triennial of Photography, Graz (1996); Sidney Bienali (1996) ve Venedik Bienali (1995) bulunuyor. Neshat, Venedik Bienali Birinci Uluslararası Ödülü (1999), Kwangju Bienali Büyük Ödülü (2000), Edinburgh Uluslararası Film Festivali Görsel Sanatlar Ödülü (2000), International Center of Photography Infinity Award (2002), Universität der Künste Berlin ZeroOne Award (2003), Hiroshima Freedom Prize (2005) ve Lillian Gish Award (2006) dahil olmak üzere çok sayıda ödüle layık görüldü. Shirin Neshat, New York’ta yaşıyor ve çalışıyor.
