Shirin Neshat is an Iranian-born artist and filmmaker based in New York. Renowned for her powerful explorations of identity, gender, and cultural displacement, Neshat has exhibited her work internationally to critical acclaim.In 2022, she was the focus of a major installation, Land of Dreams, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, which later traveled to SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico. Earlier, in 2019, Shirin Neshat: I Will Greet the Sun Again, a sweeping retrospective of her career, was presented at The Broad in Los Angeles before traveling to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.Over the years, Neshat has held numerous solo exhibitions at leading museums worldwide, including ARoS Aarhus Art Museum in Copenhagen; Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland; the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia; Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Maryland; Kunstraum Dornbirn in Austria; Kunsthalle Tübingen in Germany; Museo Correr in Venice, Italy; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.; Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; the Serpentine Gallery in London; Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin; and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. A major retrospective of her work was also presented at the Detroit Institute of Arts in 2013.Neshat’s contributions to contemporary art have been recognized with numerous prestigious awards, including the Golden Lion Award—the First International Prize—at the 48th Venice Biennale (1999), the Hiroshima Freedom Prize (2005), the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize (2006), and the Praemium Imperiale Prize (2017).In 2009, she made her feature film directorial debut with Women Without Men, which earned her the Silver Lion Award for Best Director at the 66th Venice International Film Festival.
