Shirin Neshat (b. 1957, Qazvin) received her BA from the University of California, Berkeley. Selected solo exhibitions include Born of Fire, Parrish Art Museum, New York (2025); The Fury, Dirimart Pera, Istanbul (2024); Land of Dreams, Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (2022); Land of Dreams, Dirimart Dolapdere, Istanbul (2022); Soliloquy, Tate Modern, London (2021); Shirin Neshat: Dreamers, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2019); Shirin Neshat, The National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík (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, Athens (2001); Shirin Neshat, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2000); Concentrations 34: Shirin Neshat, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas (2000); FOCUS: Shirin Neshat, Rapture, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (1999); and Shirin Neshat: Turbulent, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1998). Selected group exhibitions include 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 Biennale (2000); Sydney Biennale (2000); Carnegie International (1999); Venice Biennale (1999); Istanbul Biennial (1998); Johannesburg Biennale (1997); Austrian Triennial of Photography, Graz (1996); Sydney Biennale (1996); and Venice Biennale (1995). Neshat has received numerous awards, including the First International Prize at the Venice Biennale (1999), the Grand Prize at the Gwangju Biennale (2000), the Visual Arts Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (2000), the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography (2002), the ZeroOne Award from Universität der Künste Berlin (2003), the Hiroshima Freedom Prize (2005), and the Lillian Gish Award (2006). Shirin Neshat lives and works in New York.
