1957, Qazvin, Iran
Vive e trabalho em Nova Iorque, E.U.A.
PRÉMIOS & BOLSAS
2017
Praemium Imperiale Award, Tóquio, Japão
2016
USA Rockefeller Fellow, United States Artists, New York, USA
2014
Crystal Award, World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland
2009
Silver Lion, 66th Venice Film Festival, Venice, Italy
Prix La Navicella, Venice Film Festival, Venice, Italy
Prix UNICEF, Venice Film Festival, Venice, Italy
Cinema for Peace Special Award, Hessischer Filmpreis, Germany
2008
Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship, New York, USA
Cultural Achievement Award, Asia Society, New York, USA
2006
Lillian Gish Prize, New York, USA
2005
Hiroshima Art Prize, Hiroshima City Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan
2003
Honoree at The First Annual Risk Takers in the Arts Celebration, The Sundance Institute, New York, USA
Zero One Award, Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Fine Art Prize, Heitland Foundation, Celle, Germany
2002
Infinity Award for Visual Art, International Center for Photography, New York, USA
2001
Visiting Artist, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, USA
2000
CalArts, Alpert Award in the Arts, California, USA
Herald Angel, Visual Art Award, Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh, UK
Grand Prix, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
1999
First International Prize, 48th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Prize for Best Project, ARCO Madrid
1996
Recipient of a New York Foundation for Arts Photography Fellowship, New York, USA
Recipient of a grant from Tiffany Foundation, New York, USA
1995
Recipient of a Mid-Atlantic Photography Fellowship, Baltimore, USA
Recipient of an Art Matters Grant, New York, USA
1992
Artist in Residence, Henry Street Settlement, New York, USA
1990
Recipient of a Sponsored Project Grant, New York State Council on the Arts, New York, USA
EXPOSIÇÕES INDIVIDUAIS (selecção)
2019
Shirin Neshat: I Will Greet The Sun Again, The Broad, Los Angeles, EUA
Shirin Neshat, Indiana University's Herron School of Art + Design, Indianapolis, EUA
Shirin Neshat - Looking for Oum Kulthum, Musée de l'Eysée, Lausanne, Suíça
2018
Shirin Neshat: Poetry in Motion, GEM-Museum for Contemporary Art, Den Haag, Holanda
Shirin Neshat: Dreamers Trilogy, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Viena, Áustria
Shirin Neshat: Fervor, Hilliard University Art Museum, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Layette, Louisiana, EUA
Pause, Cà Granda, Universidade de Milão, Milão Itália
Dreamers Trilogy, Kunstraum Dornbirn, Áustria
Looking for Oum Kulthum, Faurschou Foundation, Copenhaga
Women in Society, Neue Galerie Graz, Graz, Áustria
2017
Videos: Fervor and Turbulent, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida, EUA
Shirin Neshat, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Alemanha
Gabinet. Shirin Neshat, Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
SHIRIN NESHAT. The Home of My Eyes, Museo Correr, Venice, Italy
Dreamers, Dirimart, Istanbul, Turkey; Gladstone Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
2016
Shirin Neshat, Dirimart, Istanbul, Turkey
Shirin Neshat, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2015
Shirin Neshat: The Home of My Eyes, Yarat Art Center, Baku, Azerbaijan
Shirin Neshat: Facing History, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C, USA
2014
Shirin Neshat: Afterwards, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
Shirin Neshat, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
Shirin Neshat, Mücsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
Shirin Neshat: Our House is on Fire, Rauschenberg Foundation Project Space, New York, USA
2013
Written on the body, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain
Shirin Neshat, DIA – Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, USA
Shirin Neshat, Dirimart, Istanbul, Turkey
The Book of Kings, Faurschou Foundation, Beijing, China
2012
The Book of Kings, Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
The Book of Kings, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, France
Games of Desire, Art Plural Gallery, Singapore
2011
Women Without Men, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
Shirin Neshat: Soliloquy, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK
Passage, Nevada Musuem of Art NMA, Reno, USA
2010
Rapture, MMoCA – The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, USA
Shirin Neshat, La Fabrica Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2009
Games of Desire, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Games of Desire, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris, France
Women Without Men, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece (traveled to: Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden)
Shirin Neshat: Turbulent, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark
2008
Shirin Neshat, Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
Shirin Neshat: New Works, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, France
Shirin Neshat: Women Without Men, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark [traveled to: Gallery Faurschou, Beijing]
Shirin Neshat, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjevik, Iceland
2007
Shirin Neshat: Zarin, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal
2006
Shirin Neshat: Secret of the Veil, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
Shirin Neshat, Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Shirin Neshat, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Shirin Neshat, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
2005
Shirin Neshat – Possessed, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Zarin, Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
Shirin Neshat, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum Für Gengewart, Berlin, Germany
Shirin Neshat: La última palabra / Last Word, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Leon, Spain [traveled to: Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain]
Shirin Neshat: The 6th Hiroshima Art Prize, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
2004
Through the Eyes of Shirin Neshat, Auckland Art Gallery, Toi o Támaki, New Zealand
2003
Tooba, Asia Society Museum, New York, USA
Shirin Neshat, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal
Shirin Neshat, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Shirin Neshat, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
Shirin Neshat, Tensta Konstall, Spanga, Sweden
2002
Shirin Neshat: Rapture, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
Shirin Neshat, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
Shirin Neshat, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Shirin Neshat, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Shirin Neshat: Entre Extremos, Centro Cultural Banco di Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Shirin Neshat, Walker Art Centre, Minnesota, USA
Passage, Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania, USA
2001
Shirin Neshat, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Canada [traveled to : Walker Center, Minneapolis; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas; Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA]
Shirin Neshat, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Shirin Neshat, Patrick Painter, California, USA;
Shirin Neshat, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
Shirin Neshat, Kanazawa Contemporary Art Museum, Kanazawa, Japan
Shirin Neshat, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
2000
Shirin Neshat, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Shirin Neshat: Recent Photographic Work, Pitti Discovery, Florence, Italy
Shirin Neshat, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Shirin Neshat, Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan, Italy
Concentrations 34: Shirin Neshat, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA
Shirin Neshat – Matrix 187: Turbulent, Matrix Gallery, Berkeley Art Museum, California, USA
Shirin Neshat: Two Installations, Wexner Center, Ohio, USA
1999
Shirin Neshat, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
FOCUS: Shirin Neshat, Rapture¸ Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Shirin Neshat: Rapture, Patrick Painter Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Shirin Neshat: Rapture, D’Amelio Terras, New York, USA
Shirin Neshat: Rapture, Galerie Jerôme de Noirmont, Paris, France
Shirin Neshat, Henie Onstad Kuntstenter, Høvikodden, Oslo, Norway
Shirin Neshat, Tensta Konsthall, Spanga, Sweden
1998
Shirin Neshat, Tate Gallery, London, UK
Shirin Neshat: Turbulent, Whitney Museum of American Art, Philip Morris Branch, New York, USA
Shirin Neshat : Women of Allah, Maison Européene de la Photographie, Paris, France
Shirin Neshat, Thomas Rehbein Gallery, Cologne, Germany
ARCO, Marco Noire Contemporary Arts, Madrid, Spain
Musei Bagatti Valescchi, Milan, Italy
1997
Shirin Neshat: Photographs / Video Stills, Hosflt Gallery, San Francisco, California
Shirin Neshat, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Shirin Neshat, Galleria Arte Moderna, Bolgna, Italy
Shirin Neshat, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA
Shirin Neshat, Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Shirin Neshat: Women of Allah, Artspeak, Vancouver, Canada
1996
Shirin Neshat, Centre d’Art de Fribourg, Switzerland
Shirin Neshat: Women of Allah, Marco Noire Contemporary Arts, Turin, Italy
Shirin Neshat, Lucio Amelio Gallery, Naples, Italy
Shirin Neshat, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1995
Shirin Neshat: Photography, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA
1993
Unveiling, Franklin Furnace, New York, USA
EXPOSIÇÕES COLECTIVAS (selecção)
2019
She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, orth Carolina, EUA
Bodies of Knowledge, New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana, EUA
Here we are Today: A View of the World in Photography and Video Art, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburgo, Alemanha
She Persists, Heist Pavillion no Venice Biennale Palazzo Benzon, Veneza, Itália
Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale that Society Has the Capacity to Destroy: Meditations on the Mediterranean Sea (projecto paralelo à Bienal de Veneza), Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Penitenti, Veneza, Itália
Contemporary Muslim Fashions at the de Young, The Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Alemanha
Now is the Time: Wuzhen International Contemporary Art Exhibition 2019, WuZhen China, Pequim
Now Playing: Video 1999-2019, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, EUA
2018
? War is Over. Art and conflicts between myth and contemporaneity, Museo d'Arte della città di Ravenna, Itália
The Future of Film is Female, Museum of Modern Art, Film Series, Nova Iorque, EUA
Quel Amour!?, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Marseille, França
In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, EUA
Lahore Biennal 01, Lahore, Paquistão
Long, Winding Journeys, Katonah Museum of Art, NY, USA
2017
Über den Umgang mit Menschen, wenn Zuneignung im Spiel ist – Sammlung Klein, Kunstmuseum Stuutgart, Germany
How To Say It the Way It Is!, Rua Red, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Artists in Exile:Expressions of Loss and Hope, Yale University Art gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Grisaille, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, USA
Stress Field – 4th Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, Hubei, China
Kino der Kunst 2017, München, Germany
Oltreprima. La fotografia dipinta nell’arte contemporanea, Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna, Bologna, Italy
Terrains of the Body: Photography from the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
KLM Art Collection, Museum Jan van der Togt, Amstelveen, Netherlands
21, 39 Jeddah Arts, Saudi Art Council, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
2016
No Man is an Island – The Satanic Verses, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
Islas y Horizontes, CEART – Centro de Arte Tomás y Valiente, Madrid, Spain
She: International Women Artists Exhibition, Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, China
Seeing / Saying — The Image/Text Interplay, Van Every/Smith Galleries, Belk Visual Arts Center, Davidson, North Carolina, USA
Looking at the World Around You: Contemporary Works from Qatar Museums, Santander Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Summer Show, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Art and Resolution, 1900 to Today, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, USA
Behind the Curtain. Concealment and Realation since the Renaissance, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany
2015
Islamic Art Now: Contemporary Art of the Middle East, LACMA, Los Angeles, USA
She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
Gender in Art, Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Krakow, Poland
Diverse Works: Director’s Choice, 1997-2015, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
Looking Women, Casa dei Tre Oci, Venice, Italy
The Mannequin of History: Art After Fabrications of Critique and Culture, Manifattura dei Tabacchi, Modena, Italy
Us Is Them, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio, USA
About Trees, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
Phantom Bodies, The First Center for Visual Arts, Tennessee, USA
2014
The Future (looking Forward), La Biennale de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Manifest Intention. Drawing In All Its Forms, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Time Present. Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
The New International, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Songs of Loss and Songs of Love, Gwangju Museum of Art, South Korea
Look at Me: Portraiture from Manet to the Present, Lelia Heller Gallery, New York, USA
I Look at Things… Work From the Collection, Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark
CONFLICT: Art and War, Contemporary Art Society, London, UK
Shirin Neshat: Don’t Ask Where the Love is Gone, Moscow Photobiennale 2014, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
Pionniéres: Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Marlene Dumas, Tracey Emin, Roni Horn, Shirin Neshat, Cindy Sherman, Nancy Spero, Niki De Saint Phalle, CAB Art Center, Brussels, Belgium
ToledoContemporánea, Centro Cultural San Marcos, Toledo, Spain
2013
My Third Land, Frankendael Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Collection Exhibition II, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year 1, Industry City, New York, USA
The Ghost of Architecture: Recent and Promised Gifts, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
SKIN, an artistic atlas, Royal Hobernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Legacy: Photographs from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, USA
Displaced Visions Emigré Photographers of the 20th Century, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Woman’s World: Contemporary Views of Women by Women, Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, USA
The Drawing Project, Frost Art Museum, Miami, USA
Dreams of Reason. Highlights of the Sandretto Rebaudengo Collection, CoCA – Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun, Poland
All You Need is Love, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
De madonna a Madonna. (De)construcciones de lo femenino en la sociedad contemporánea, DA2 Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain
2012
OC Collects, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, USA
Voice of Images, Palazzo Grassi-Françoise Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy
Pulso Iraniano. Oi Futuro, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Cibles, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France
La Belle et la Bête, Institut Culturel Bernad Magrez, Bordeaux, France
Every Exit is an Entrance: 30 Years of Exit Art, Exit Art, New York, USA
Half of the Sky: Visualized, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, USA
We the People, Rauschenberg Foundation, New York, USA
The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art, and Society, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, USA
Performing for the Camera, Arizon State University Art Museum, Arizona, USA
2011
Beyond Conventions: Reimagining Human Rights in a Time of Change, Ford Foundation, New York, USA
In The Name of the Artists, American Contemporary Art from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Bienal Pavilion, São Paulo, Brazil
TRA. Edge of Becoming, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
You Are Not Alone, Fundacio Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
Big Brother, L’artiste face aux tyrans, Palais des Arts, Dinard, France
Morceaux exquis, EDP Foundation, Paris, France
I Know Something About Love, Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, UK
2010
Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
ARTE Y POLITICA : CONFLICTOS Y DISYUNTIVAS, Museo de Arte de Culiacán, Culiacán, Mexico
Exposure: Photos from the Vault, Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
Disquieted, Portland Art Museum, Portland, USA
Diabolique, Galerie de Universite du Quebec A Montreal, Montreal, Canada
2009
Bad Habits, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
BAROCK, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples, Italy
Being in the World: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA
Shirin Neshat e Shoja Azari, Noire Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy
The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women, Cheim and Read, New York, USA
Iran Inside Out, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA
Photographic Power and Violence, Disease, and Death Photographed, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
2008
Shirin Neshat: Women Without Men, Prospect.1: New Orleans International Biennial, Newcomb Art Gallery, New Orleans, USA
Me Ophelia, The Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Typical: Cliches of Jews and Others, The Jewish Museum of Vienna, Vienna, Austria [traveled to: The Jewish Museum of Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Spertus Museum, Chicago]
Erranti / Wanderers in Contemporary Video Art, Museo Civico, Commune di Siena, Siena, Italy
Paixóns Privadas, Visións Públicas Collections D.O. Galicia, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Spain
2007
Foto.Kunst, Essl Museum, Klosterneuberg, Austria
Passage du temps – Collection François Pinault, Le Tri Postal, Lille, France
Kunst Film Biennale, Cologne, Germany
Ten Years, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK
So Close / So Far Away, BE-Part Platform voor actuele kunst, Waregem, Belgium
Weltempfänger, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
After The Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, New York, USA
Border-Crossing Exercises, Galleri Nord Norge, Norway
Not for Sale, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
Lights Camera Action: Artist's Film for the Cinema, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
2006
Kapital, Kent Gallery, New York, USA;
Body Face Soul – The Position of Women from the 16th to 21st Century, Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria
Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki, Finland
A Selected State, Emily Tsingou gallery, London, UK
Reverence, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York, USA
Figure it Out, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York, USA
Without Boundary: 17 Ways of Looking, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2005
Translation, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Remapped Realities, Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, New York, USA
Some Stories, Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria
About Beauty, House of World Culture, Berlin, Germany
Important, Modern and Contemporary Art, Gary Nader, Miami, USA
Figure It Out, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York, USA
2004
Happy Birthday!, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, France
D’une image qui ne serait pas semblant, la photographie écrite: 1950-2005, Passage de Retz, Paris, France
Non Toccare La Donna Bianca, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’Arte,Turin, Italy
In Bed, Toyota Art Museum, Japan
From Bonifatius to Beuys, Kunsthalle Erfurt, Germany
Monument to Now, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece; New Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran;
The Parallell World of Marrakech, Lille 2004, Lille, France
Transculture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Far Near Distance, House of World Culture, Berlin, Germany
Masterpieces from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA [traveled to: Villa Manin Center of Contemporary Art, Udine, Italy]
2003
Bill Viola and Shirin Neshat, The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia
Safavid, Asia Society, New York, USA
Moving Pictures, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
Fantasies of the Harem and the New Sherezades, Centre de Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona, Spain
Elsewhere, UCLA Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, USA
The Natural Cosmos, Staadtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Imagining Prometheus, Palazzo della Ragione, Milan, Italy
Nouredine Amir, ModeMuseum, Antwerp, Belgium
Films of the Iranian Diaspora, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, USA
Armour: The Fortification of Man, Foundation Fort Asperen, Acquoy, Netherlands
ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York, USA
2002
Real Life, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, UK
Diversions, Contemporary Art Museum, Baltimore, USA
Synopsis II-Theologies, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Alter Ego, Jean-Gabriel Mitterand Galerie, Paris, France
Recent Acquisitions, Solomon R. Guggeheim Museum of Art, New York, USA
The Beauty of the Evil, De Zonnehof, Amersfoort, Netherlands
Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany
Picturing Ourselves, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, UK
Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York, USA
Visions from America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Iconos Metropolitanos, Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
New Art, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran
2001
Ornament and Abstraction: The Dialogue between Non-western, Modern and Contemporary Art, Beyeler Foundation, Basel, Switzerland
Galerie Farschou, 1986-2001, Galeri Farschou, Copenhagen, Denmark
Fervor, Tensta Konsthall, Spanga, Sweden
Black + White, Blains Fine Art, London, UK
New Acquisitions from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece [traveled to: Centre for Biennial de Valencia, Spain]
Mona Hatoum – Shirin Neshat, French Institut, Rabbat, Morocco
Croatian Photographic Union, Zagreb, Croatia
Arte Contemporaneo Internacional, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
The Beauty of the Evil, Armando Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2000
Corpo Chimico, Cá di Fra, Milan, Italy
Photography Now: An International Survey of Contemporary Photography, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, USA
State of the Art: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
Erresitentziak/Resistencias, Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastian, Spain
Turbulent,The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, UK
Sharing Exoticisms, Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France
La Beauté in Avignon, Avignon, France
Continental Shift, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
12th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Man and Space: 3d, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Outbound. Passages from the 90’s, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, USA
Greater New York: New Art in New York Now, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
Contact: A 90’s Journal, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
THE END: An Independent Vision of Contemporary Culture, 1982-2000, Exit Art, New York, USA
1999
Heaven: An Exhibition That Will Break Your Heart, Tate Gallery Liverpool, UK
Zeitwenden: Rückblick und Ausblick, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Shirin Neshat: Rapture/ Pipilotti Rist: Sip My Ocean, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA
Voiceovers, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Project 70: Shirin Neshat, Simon Patterson, Xu Bing, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
54th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
My Culture? My Self: Lee Friedlander, Gerhard Richter, Christian Boltanski, Shirin Neshat, Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto, Canada
48th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Exploding Cinema, Rotterdam Film Festival, Museum Boijman Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Unfinished History, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
Video Cultures, Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
La Ville, Le Jardin, la Memoire, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
Global Art Rheinland 2000, Museum Ludwig Köln, Cologne, Germany
SITE SANTA FE: Looking For A Place, Santa Fe, USA
Zeitwenden: Ruckblick und Ausblick, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Heavenly Figure, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
1998
Unfinished History, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
In The Detail, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
Disidentico: maschile femminile e oltre, Palazzo Branciforte, Palermo, Italy
7th Summer of Photography, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium
Mar de Fondo, Sagunto Roman Theatre, Valencia, Spain
Vanessa Beecroft & Shirin Neshat, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
Maschile Femminile e oltre, Palazzo Branciforte, Palermo, Italy
Mostrato, Pescara, Italy
ECHOLOT, Kunsthalle Fridercianum Kassel, Germany
Transatlantico, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Canary Islands, Spain
A Noir, Triennale di Milano, Italy
Interference, Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Genders and Nations: Reflections on Women in Revolution, Johnson Museum, Cornell University, New York, USA
5th International Istanbul Biennale: On Life, Beauty, Translations and Other Difficulties, Istanbul, Turkey
2nd Johannesburg Biennale 1997, Trade Routes: History and Geography, Johannesburg, South Africa
Unbeschreiblich Weiblich, Fotomanifestatie Noorderlicht, Groningen, Netherlands
1997
Trade Routes: History and Geography, 2nd Johannesburg Biennieale, Johannesburg, South Africa
Unbeschreiblisch Weiblich, Fotomanifestatie Noorderlicht, Groningen, Netherlands
Facturing the Gaze, Lawing Gallery, Texas, USA
On Life, Beauty, Translations and Other Difficulties, 5th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
Feminine Image, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York, USA
Triple X: Contemporary Investigating Arts, International Art Festival, Amsterdam, Holland, Netherlands
Der Rest der Welt, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, Germany
International Art Festival City of Medellin, Medellin, Columbia
Foto text/text foto, Museum of Modern Art, Bolzano, Italy
Frankfurt Kunstverein, Germany
Le Masque et le Miroir, Museu D’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
1996
Jurassic Technologies Revenant, Sydney Biennial, Sydney Australia
Le Masque et le Miroir, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
Inclusion/Exclusion, Kunstlerhaus Graz, Graz, Austria
Radical Images: Austrian Triennal of Photography 1996, Neue Galerie, New York, USA [traveled to: Kunstlerhause, Graz, Austria]
Kunsthalle Szombathely, Szombathely, Hungary
Interzones, Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark
Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden
Ghostwriter, (a project in collaboration with Jamielie Hassan), Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
Group Exhibition, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
Auf Den Leib, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Gallery Artists, Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Imaginary Beings, Exit Art, New York, USA
Anchorage,video Installation commissioned by Creative Time for Anchorage, Brooklyn Bridge, New York, USA
1995
Imaginary Beings, Exit Art, New York, USA
Orientation, 4th Istanbul Biennial 95, Istanbul, Turkey
Transculture, Venice Biennial 95, Venice, Italy
Contemporary Art Museum, Okayama, Japan
Campo ’95, Venice Biennial 95, Venice, Italy
Fondazione Sandretto Rebaudengo Per L’Arte, Turin, Italy
It’s How You Play the Game, Exit Art, New York, USA
1994
Three New Photographers, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Revolving Histories, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, USA
Selection from the Artists File, Artists Space, New York, USA
Labyrinth of Exile: Recent Works by Four Contemporary Iranian Artists, Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
Fever, Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Beyond the Borders: Art By Recent Immigrants, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, USA
1993
The Office: History, Fantasy and Irregular Protocols, site-specific installations in an abandoned Wall Street office building, organized by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, USA
1992
Fever, Exit Art Gallery, New York, USA [traveled to: Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus, USA; Alejandro Otero Museum of Visual Arts, Caracas, Venezuela]
MULTI MEDIA PERFORMANCE
2011
OverRuled, PERFORMA 11, 4th Edition of New Visual Art Performance Biennial, Cedar Lake Theater, November 11-12;
2003
Logic of the Birds, Ortigia Festival, Syracuse, Siclily, July 25 – 27;
2002
Logic of the Birds, Walker Art Center, Minnesota, USA, June 20-23;
Logic of the Birds, Lincoln Center, New York, USA, July 12-13;
Logic of the Birds, ArtAngel, London, UK, November 7-17;
2001
Logic of the Birds (Phase One), The Kitchen, New York, USA;
MOSTRAS DE FILMES | FILM SCREENINGS
2010
Women Without Men, New Directors/New Films, New York, USA;
Women Without Men, International Rotterdam Film Festival, Netherlands;
Women Without Men, Sundance Film Festival, Utah, USA;
Women Without Men, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA;
2009
Premier of Women Without Men at the 66th Venice Film Festival, Italy;
Women Without Men, London Film Festival, London, UK;
Women Without Men, Viennale Film Festival, Vienna, Austria;
Women Without Men, KunstFilm Biennale, Cologne, Germany;
Women Without Men, Dubai International Film Festival, Dubai;
2008
Annual Celebration of Iranian Cinema, UCLA Film Archive, California, USA;
2007
KunstFilm Biennale, Cologne, Germany;
International Incheon Women Artists' Biennale, South Korea;
Istanbul Film Festival, Istanbul;
2006
Florida Golf Coast University;
Art Tower-Mito, Japan;
Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany;
Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno-CAAM, Spain;
Creative Time Inc, New York, USA;
2003
Sundance Film Festival, Salt Lake City, USA;
Smithsonian Institution, Freer and Sackler Galleries, Washington D.C., USA;
UCLA Film and Television Archive, Los Angeles, USA;
Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, USA;
Tribeca Film Festival, New York, USA;
Athens International Film Festival, Athens, Greece;
Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh, UK;
Kunst Film Biennale, Cologne, Germany;
2002
Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland;
Dans Le Cadre Du Festival International De Films De Fribourg, Centre D'Art Contemporain Kunsthalle, Fribourg, France ;
Outer & Inner Space: A Video Exhibition in Three Parts/Part Two, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, USA;
Forum des Images, Paris, France;
Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Athens, Greece;
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA;
2001
Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago, USA;
Francisco Film Festival, San Francisco, USA;
London Iranian Film Festival, London, UK;
Virginia Film Festival, Charlottesville, USA;
Pacific Film Archive Festival, Oakland, USA;
2000
Telluride Film Festival, Telluride, Colorado, USA;
Locamo Film Festival, Switzerland;
Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands;
COLECÇÕES PÚBLICAS (selecção)
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art - Kanazawa, Kanazawa, Japan
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
ARTIUM – Basque Museum Center of Contemporary Art, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, USA
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Santa Monica, USA
Burger Collection, Berlin, Germany
CIFO – Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA
Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão, Portugal
Essl Museum – Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Fondazione Querini Stampalia ONLUS, Venice, Italy
Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italy
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain
IAC – Institut d’art contemporain Villeurbanne / Rhone-Alpes, France
ICP - International Center of Photography, New York, USA
MAC – Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, USA
MACBA – Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Middleburry College Musuem of Art, Middlebury, USA
MUDAM - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
MUSAC - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon, Spain
Musée d´Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
National Musuem of Contemporary Art – EMST, Athens, Greece
Nomas Foundation, Rome, Italy
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Sammlung Alison & Peter W. Klein, Eberdingen-Nussdorf, Germany
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
T-B A21 - Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
Tate Britain, London, UK
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
The Progressive Art Collection, Mayfield Village, USA
The West Collection, Oaks, USA