Shirin Neshat is perhaps the most famous living Iranian artist in the world. She has lived in the United States, in exile from her native Iran, for most of her adult life. Neshat was born in Qazvin, ...

Shirin Neshat, Untitled, from Roja Series, 2016. Neshat’s largest exhibit to date, “Shirin Neshat: I Will Greet the Sun Again,” is on view at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth from February 28 ...

Portraits of New Mexico residents from Shirin Neshat’s Land of Dreams, an installation at Istanbul’s Dirimart gallery, link America’s future to Iran’s past. Nazli Erdemirel I think that fiction can be ...

"Untitled (Hands)" offers a prime example of Neshat’s signature style in which she merges photography with overlaid text and symbols, giving her work a lyricism and gravity at once. This photograph ...

When the filmmaker Shirin Neshat heard the singer-songwriter Emel Mathlouthi, she knew she’d found a fellow artist whose work was “truly international.” From left: Emel Mathlouthi, 41, ...

Iranian artist Shirin Neshat is known for her images of women that pose probing questions about the female body within Islam and Iranian culture. This hour, she reflects on her life and work in exile.

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Iranian artist Shirin Neshat is known for her images of women that pose probing questions about the female body within Islam and Iranian culture.... Iranian visual artist Shirin Neshat on how exile is ...