Shirin Neshat is perhaps the most famous living Iranian artist in the world. She has lived in the United States, in exile from her native Iran, for most of her adult life. Neshat was born in Qazvin, ...

Shirin Neshat, Untitled, from Roja Series, 2016. Neshat’s largest exhibit to date, “Shirin Neshat: I Will Greet the Sun Again,” is on view at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth from February 28 ...

In 1975 Shirin Neshat’s parents sent her from Iran to live with her older sister in a cramped Westwood apartment. She immediately fell into depression. Then only 17, she didn’t speak a word of English ...

For photographer and filmmaker Shirin Neshat, feeling disconnected from home has been a thread of her life for decades. Born in Iran in 1957, Neshat first came to the United States in 1975 to study at ...

Shirin Neshat and Shahzia Sikander are two critically acclaimed Asian American artists whose work examines, among other things, the themes of gender, Islam, tradition and identity. The two artists ...

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Iranian artist Shirin Neshat is known for her images of women that pose probing questions about the female body within Islam and Iranian culture.... Iranian visual artist Shirin Neshat on how exile is ...