Noted for her work in the fields of gender, power and displacement, Shirin Neshat said: “My art has stemmed from a desire to bridge deeply personal issues together with critical social, political, historical issues that concern the world that I inhabit.”
Shirin Neshat’s Biography: Artist and filmmaker living in New York. Has held numerous solo exhibitions at galleries and museum internationally. Directed first feature-length film, Women Without Men, which received the Silver Lion Award, “Best Director” at the 66th Venice International Film Festival (2009). Represented by Gladstone Gallery, New York City.
Remarkable people with Iranian roots 