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Yorkshire Sculpture Park SHIRIN NESHAT Resource File Yorkshire Sculpture Park SHIRIN NESHAT Resource file Shirin Neshat Biography Born in Qazvin, Iran, Shirin Neshat (1957) is an Iranian artist who left Iran to study in the United States when she was seventeen years old. She moved to Los Angeles to study art before the Iranian Revolution in 1979. When the Islamic Revolution overtook her homeland, Neshat was exiled and was not allowed to return until eleven years later. She attended the University of California, Berkeley, earning her B.A., M.A., and M.F.A in 1983. Neshat became fascinated with the situation of women in her native country after visiting Iran in 1990, for the first time since the rise of the Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979. Neshat discovered that the culture she had grown up with had changed, inspiring her first major work. In 1993, then working in the medium of still photography, Neshat began a series of images entitled Unveiling (1993). She first gained international recognition for the Women of Allah series (1993-1997), a body of photographic work exploring women and martyrdom in Islamic culture. Since 1996 her work has progressed from photographs to video installations and short films, covering difficult topics such as Eastern and Western boundaries, men and women, the sacred and the profane, exile and belonging. She uses the specifics of her personal background, experiences in exile and Islamic culture to create works that communicate universal ideas about loss, meaning and memory, which often address social, political and psychological issues. 1957 Born Qazvin, Iran 1974 Left Iran to study art in Los Angeles, USA 1979 Moved to San Francisco and studied at Dominican College, before enrolling at the University of California, Berkeley for a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree 1981 Master of Arts degree 1983 Master of Fine Arts degree Moved to New York, USA to work for the non-profit organisation Storefront Art and Architecture, an interdisciplinary alternative space 1990 Visited Iran after the death of Ayatollah Khomeini Begins artistic practice Receives New York State Council Sponsored Project Grant First small group show Fever at Exit Art Gallery, New York, USA 1992 First residency at Henry Street Settlement, New York, USA 1993 Began to produce a series of groundbreaking black and white photographs called Unveiling and Women of Allah First solo exhibition at Franklin Furnace in New York, USA 1995 Took part in the 46th Venice Biennale 1996 Awarded a grant from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, USA 1998 Met Iranian artist and filmmaker Shoja Azari First film and video installations First video installation: Turbulent, part one of a trilogy 1999 Second film: Rapture, part two of the trilogy Won the International Award of the 46th Venice Biennale with Turbulent and Rapture, Turbulent later shown in her solo exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in London, 2000 Travels back and forth between USA and Iran Makes double-screen colour film Soliloquy 2000 Fervor, the third part of the trilogy Won the Visual Art Award from the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2001 Collaborates with singer Sussan Deyhim to create Logic of the Birds. Visiting Artist, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine, USA 2002 Infinity Award for Visual Art, International Center for Photography, New York, USA 2003 Honored at The First Annual Risk Takers in the Arts Celebration, given by The Sundance Institute, New York 2004 Mahdokht, a three-channel audio-visual installation forms part of the Women Without Men series 2005 Zarin a single channel video/audio installation Award, Hiroshima City Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan 2006 Exhibits extensively throughout Europe Awarded The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize 2007 Begins shooting Women Without Men, first feature film 2008 Films Munis, Faezeh and Farokh Legha, which completes the Women Without Men series, first presented at Aros Museum in DenmarkCultural Achievement Award, Asia Society, New York 2009 Awarded the Silver Lion for Best Director at the 66th Venice Film Festival for her directional debut Women without Men and the Cinema for Peace Special Award – Hessischer Filmpreis, Germany 2010 Solo show at La Fabrica Galeria, Madrid, Spain. Women Without Men is screened extensively through USA and the Netherlands 2011 Soliloquy (1999) shown at Yorkshire Sculpture Park Selected Solo Exhibitions 1993 Franklin Furnace, New York, USA 1995 Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA 1996 Centre d’Art Contemporain Kunsthalle, Fribourg, Switzerland Marco Noire Contemporary Arts, Turin, Italy Marco Noire Contemporary Arts, Turin, Italy Haines Gallery, San Francisco, USA 1997 Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovania Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, Holland Artspeak, Vancouver, Canada 1998 Tate Gallery, London, UK Whitney Museum of American Art, Philip Morris Branch, New York, USA Maison Européene de la Photographie, Paris, France Thomas Rehbein Gallery, Köln. Germany 1999 Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden Art Institute of Chicago, USA Patrick Painter Gallery, Los Angeles, USA D’Amelio Terras, New York, USA Galerie Jerôme de Noirmont, Paris, France Henie Onstad Artsentre, Oslo, Norway Tensta Konsthall, Spanga, Sweden 2000 Serpentine Gallery, London, UK Pitti Discovery, Florence, Italy Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria Lia Rumma, Milan, Italy Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA Matrix, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, Canada Wexner Center, Columbus, USA 2001 Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montreal,; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Miami Art Museum Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland Barbara Gladstone Gallery , New York, USA Kanazawa Contemporary Art Museum, Kanazawa, Japan Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany 2002 Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw Banco di Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark Passage Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 2003 Tooba Asia Society Museum, New York, USA Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico 2004 Shirin Neshat Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand 2005 Zarin Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum Für Gengewart, Berlin, Germany Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Leon, Spain Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan 2006 Shirin Neshat Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland Shirin Neshat: The Last Word Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Shirin Neshat Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Shirin Neshat Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2007 Shirin Neshat Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal 2008 Shirin Neshat Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA Shirin Neshat : Women Without Men Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA Shirin Neshat: New Works Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, France Women Without Men ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark; Gallery Faurschou, Beijing, China Shirin Neshat National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjevik, Iceland Women Without Men Galleri Faurschou, Beijing, China 2009 Games of Desire Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium/ Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris, France Women Without Men National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece Shirin Neshat: Turbulent Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark 2010 Shirin Neshat La Fabrica Galeria, Madrid, Spain Selected works Women of Allah series (1993-1997) series of prints Turbulent (1998) Two channel video/audio installation Rapture (1999) Two channel video/audio installation Soliloquy (1999) Color video/audio installation with artist as the protagonist Fervor (2000) Two channel video/audio installation Passage (2001) Single channel video/audio installation Logic of the Birds (2002) Multi-media performance Mahdokht (2004) Three channel video/audio installation Zarin (2005) Single channel video/audio installation Munis (2008) Color video/audio installation based on Shahrnush Parsipur’s novel Faezeh (2008) Color video/audio installation based on Shahrnush Parsipur’s novel Possession (2009) Black and white video/audio installation Women Without Men (2010) feature film based on Shahrnush Parsipur’s novel Soliloquy 1999 Two screen projection, and audio installation 16mm colour video transferred to digital video 17 ½ minutes (Shirin Neshat, Soliloquy, Film Stills, 1999) Soliloquy is a double-screen colour video projection produced in an edition of six plus one artist’s proof. Tate’s copy is number six in the edition. The work was shot on 16mm film and transferred to video for editing. The two videos are projected on opposite walls, usually in an enclosed space. They depict a veiled woman, the artist herself, and taking parallel journeys in two different cultural landscapes. In one video she is depicted in a Middle Eastern city on the edge of the desert while in the other she is in a western metropolis. For most of the seventeen and a half minute duration of the work, the action in the films alternates between the two settings. When the woman on one screen is active, walking from place to place, her counterpart in the other projection stays still, often staring directly at the camera and thus appearing to watch her alter ego on the opposite screen. At these moments her face seems to register recognition and longing. The films are structured in parallel. Both begin with the woman looking out a window at the city below her. The woman in the Middle Eastern setting ventures out down cobbled streets until she
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