Born in 1957, Qazvin, Iran
Currently lives and works in New York, NY, USA

Education
1982       
MFA, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
1981       
MA, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley
1979       
BFA, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009       
Shirin Neshat: Games of Desire, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris, France
2008       
Shirin Neshat: Women without Men, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
2006       
Shirin Neshat, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2005       
Shirin Neshat: The Last Word, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Leon, Spain
The 6th Hiroshima Art Prize: Shirin Neshat, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
2004       
Shirin Neshat, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2003       
Shirin Neshat, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, USA
2002       
Shirin Neshat, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
2001       
Shirin Neshat, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Shirin Neshat, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
2000       
Shirin Neshat, Serpentine Gallery, London, England
1999       
Shirin Neshat: Rapture, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago,IL, USA
Shirin Neshat: Rapture, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris
1998       
Shirin Neshat: Turbulent, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York
1997       
Shirin Neshat, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions
2009       
DARKSIDE II: Photographic Power and Violence, Disease and Death
Photographed, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Iran Inside Out, Chelsea Art Museum, New York
2008       
New Orleans International Biennale: Prospect 1, New Orleans, LA, USA
2007       
Passage du temps: Collection Francois Pinault, Le Tri Postal, Lille, France
Lights Camera Action: Artist’s Film for the Cinema, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2006       
Reverence, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY, USA
2005       
Translation: The Dakis Joannou Collection, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2004       
Monument to Now, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
2003       
ICP Triennial of Photography and Video: Stranger, International Center of Photography, New York
Bill Viola and Shirin Neshat, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
2002       
Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of
American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
New Art, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
2001       
Ornament and Abstraction, Beyeler Foundation, Basel, Switzerland
Arte Contemporaneo Internacional, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
2000       
Edinburgh International Festival, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
La Beaute en Avignon, Avignon, France
Gwangju Biennale: Man + Space, Gwangju Biennale Hall, Gwangju,   Korea
1999       
Heaven: An Exhibition That Will Break Your Heart, Tate Gallery  Liverpool, Liverpool, England
La Biennale di Venezia: dAPERTutto, Venice, Italy
1998       
Unfinished History, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
1997       
The 5th International Istanbul Biennale: On Life, Beauty, Translations
and Other Difficulties, Istanbul, Turkey
Foto Text/Text Foto, Museum of Modern Art, Bolzano, Italy
Fotomanifestatie Noorderlicht 1997: Unbeschreiblich Weiblich,
Noorderlicht, Groningen, The Netherlands
1996       
Inclusion/Exclusion, Kunstlerhaus, Graz, Austria

Ghostwriter (A project in collaboration with Jamielie Hassan), Mercer
Union, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
1995       
The 4th International Istanbul Biennale: Orientation: The Vision of Art
in a Paradoxical World, Istanbul
1994       
Labyrinth of Exile: Recent Works by Four Contemporary Iranian

Artists, Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA,
USA
Beyond the Borders: Art by Recent Immigrants, The Bronx Museum of
 the Arts, Bronx, NY, USA

Selected Awards
2009       
Silver Lion for Best Director, The 66th Venice International Film Festival, Venice
2006       
Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize Trust, New York
2005       
The 6th Hiroshima Art Prize (Hiroshima Freedom Prize), Hiroshima
City Museum of Art, Hiroshima
2002      
 Infinity Awards for Visual Art, International Center of Photography,
 New York
2000       
Visual Art Award, “Herald Angel,” Edinburgh International Festival,   Edinburgh
Grand Prix, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju
1999       
Golden Lion, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice