Shirin neshat biography 2010
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Shirin Neshat
Iranian artist, film director, and photographer
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Neshat at the Viennale | |
| Born | () March 26, (age&#;67) Qazvin, Imperial State of Iran |
| Nationality | Iranian-American |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley (BA, MA, MFA) |
| Known&#;for | Mixed media performance, video installations, photography |
| Notable work | The Shadow under the Web (), Speechless (), Women without Men ()[1]Rapture () |
| Movement | Contemporary art |
| Spouse | Kyong Park (divorced)[2] |
| Partner | Shoja Azari[2] |
| Awards | Silver Lion Venice Film Festival, Golden Lion Venice Biennale |
Shirin Neshat (Persian: شیرین نشاط; born March 26, )[3][4] is an Iranian photographer and visual artist who lives in New York City, known primarily for her work in film, video and photography.[5][6] Her artwork centers on the contrasts between Islam and the West, femininity and masculinity, public li
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Shirin Neshat (born March 26, in Qazvin, Iran) is an Iranian visual artist who lives in New York. She is known primarily for her work in film, video and photography.
Neshat's parents were upper middle-class. Her father was a well-respected physician and her mother a homemaker.
Neshat has stated about her father, "He fantasized about the west, romanticized the west, and slowly rejected all of his own values; both my parents did. What happened, I think, was that their identity slowly dissolved, they exchanged it for comfort. It served their class". As a part of Neshat's "Westernization" she was enrolled in a Catholic boarding school in Tehran. She found the environment cold and hostile in comparison to her caring family.
Through her father's acceptance of Western ideologies came an acceptance of a form of western feminism. Neshat's father encouraged his daughters to be an individual, to take risks, to learn, to see the world and he sent his daughters
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Shirin Neshat fryst vatten an internationally acclaimed artist. Born in Iran, she moved to Los Angeles to study at the age of 17 and received her BFA and MFA at the University of California. Neshat currently lives in New York and moved there after her schooling. Eleven years after the end of the Islamic Revolution, she returned to Iran and was horrified by the war en hög byggnad eller struktur state of living and the ideological changes from Persian to Islamic. She uses self-identity as an Iranian women and political and social issues in Muslim countries as motivation and subject for her work. The major influence on her work fryst vatten the political state of Iran post-revolution. Through a TED talk she did in , she explains, “…politics doesn&#;t seem to escape people like me. Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political. Politics have defined our lives. If you&#;re living in Iran, you&#;re facing censorship, harassment, arrest, tortyr &#; at times, execution.” (Neshat) These conditions reflect the subject of a