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Shirin Neshat

26 March 1957 – present

Shirin Neshat is an Iranian visual artist and filmmaker based in New York. She works in photography, video installation and feature film, and first drew wide attention with the Women of Allah photographic series of the 1990s. She received the Golden Lion at the 1999 Venice Biennale and the Silver Lion for best director at the 2009 Venice Film Festival.

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Born in Qazvin, Iran
26 March 1957
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Moved to the United States to study
1975

She left Iran to study art in California shortly before the 1979 revolution.

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Completed an MFA at the University of California, Berkeley
1983

She earned bachelor's and master's degrees there before moving to New York.

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Began the Women of Allah photographic series
1993

The black-and-white photographs are overlaid with Persian calligraphy.

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Produced the two-channel video work Turbulent
1998

The installation pairs two facing screens showing a male and a female singer.

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Awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale
1999

She received the international prize at the 48th Biennale for her video works.

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Directed her first feature film, Women Without Men
2009

The film adapts Shahrnush Parsipur's novel, set during the 1953 coup in Iran.

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Won the Silver Lion for best director at the Venice Film Festival
2009

The prize was awarded for Women Without Men.

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