Shirin Neshat

1957. Born in Qazvin, Iran

• All
• Shows (351)
• Move (1)
• Education (3)
• Awards (15)
• Art Fairs (21)
• Biennials (17)

• 1970

• 1975

  Moved to USA

• 1975

  Began studying art at the University of California, Berkeley

• 1979

  Graduated with a B.F.A.

• 1980

• 1982

  Received her M.F.A., University of California, Berkeley

• 1990

• 1990

  Recipient of a sponsored project grant, New York State Council on the Arts

• 1992

  Group show, "Fever", Exit Art Gallery, New York

• 1993

  Focused on producing black and white photographs and her "Women of Allah" series

• 1993

  Solo show, "Unveiling", Franklin Furnace, New York

• 1993

  Group show, "The Office: History, Fantasy and Irregular Protocols", Organized by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in New York

• 1994

  Group show, "Revolving Histories", SF Camerawork, San Francisco

• 1994

  Group show, "Labyrinth of Exile: Recent Works by Four Contemporary Iranian Artists", Fowler, California

• 1994

  Group show, Museum of Cultural History, University of California Los Angeles

• 1994

  Group show, "Fever", Wexner Centre for the Arts, Columbus

• 1994

  Group show, "Selection from the Artists File", Artists Space, New York

• 1994

  

• 1994

  Group show, "Three New Photographers", Haines Gallery, San Francisco

• 1994

  Group show, "Beyond the Borders: Art by Recent Immigrants", Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York

• 1995

  Recipient of a Mid-Atlantic photography fellowship

• 1995

  Group show, Contemporary Art Museum, Okayama

• 1995

  Group show, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin

• 1995

  Participated in the 4th International Istanbul Biennial, "Orientation", Turkey

• 1995

  Participated in Venice Biennale, "Transculture", Italy

• 1995

  Participated in the Venice Biennial 95, "Campo 95", Venice

• 1995

  Solo photography show, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York

• 1995

  Group show, "Imaginary Beings", Exit Art, New York

• 1995

  Group show, "It’s How You Play the Game", Exit Art, New York

• 1996

  Recipient of New York Foundation for Arts Photography Fellowship

• 1996

  Solo show, Centre d’art de Fribourg, Fribourg

• 1996

  Solo show, "Women of Allah", Marco Noire Contemporary Arts, Turin

• 1996

  Solo show, Lucio Amelio Gallery, Naples

• 1996

  Solo show, Haines Gallery, San Francisco

• 1996

  Group show, "Le Masque et le Miroir (English: The Mask & the Mirror)", Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France

• 1996

  Group show, "Inclusion/Exclusion", Kunstlerhaus Graz, Germany

• 1996

  Group show, Kunsthalle Szombathely, Hungry

• 1996

  Group show, "Interzones", Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Copenhagen

• 1996

  Group show, "Ghostwriter", Mercer Union, Toronto

• 1996

  Group show, Haines Gallery, San Francisco

• 1996

  Group show, "Auf Den Leib (English: On the Body)", Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

• 1996

  Group show, "Gallery Artists", Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam

• 1996

  Group show, "Imaginary Beings", Exit Art, New York

• 1996

  Group show, "Anchorage", Video installation commissioned by Creative Time, Brooklyn Bridge, New York

• 1996

  Participated in Sydney Biennial, "Jurassic Technologies Revenant"

• 1996

  

• 1997

  Solo show, "Photographs/Video Stills", Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco

• 1997

  Solo show, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia

• 1997

  Solo show, Galleria Arte Moderna, Bolgna

• 1997

  Solo show, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York

• 1997

  Solo show, Lumen Travo, Amsterdam

• 1997

  Solo show, "Women of Allah", Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia

• 1997

  Group show, "Unbeschreiblich Weiblich (English: Indescribable Female)", Groningen, the Netherlands

• 1997

  Group show, "Fracturing the Gaze', Lawing Gallery, Houston, Texas

• 1997

  Group show, "Feminine Image", Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York

• 1997

  Group show, "Triple X: Contemporary Investigating Arts", International Art Festival, Amsterdam

• 1997

  Group show, "Der Rest der Welt (English: The Rest of the World)", House of World Cultures, Berlin

• 1997

  Group show, "International Art Festival City of Medellin", Columbia

• 1997

  Group show, "Foto Text/Text Foto", Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art Bolzano, Italy

• 1997

  Group show, "Le Masque et le Miroir (English: The Mask & the Mirror", Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain

• 1997

  Participated in the 2nd Johannesburg Biennial, "Trade Routes: History and Geography", South Africa

• 1997

  Participated in the 5th International Istanbul Biennial, "On Life, Beauty, Translations & other Difficulties", Turkey

• 1997

  Group show, Frankfurt Art Club, Frankfurt

• 1997

  

• 1998

  Solo show, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

• 1998

  Solo show, Tate Gallery, London

• 1998

  Solo show, Thomas Rehbein Gallery, Cologne

• 1998

  Solo show, "ARCO", Marco Noire Contemporary Arts, Madrid

• 1998

  Solo show, Musei Bagatti Valsecchi, Milan

• 1998

  Group show, "Unfinished History", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

• 1998

  Group show, "In The Detail", Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich

• 1998

  Group show, "Disidentico: Maschile Femminile é Oltre", Palazzo Branciforte, Palermo

• 1998

  Group show, "7th Summer of Photography", Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Belgium

• 1998

  Group show, "Mar de Fondo", Sagunto Roman Theatre, Valencia

• 1998

  Group show, "Vanessa Beecroft & Shirin Neshat", Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Bologna

• 1998

  Group show, "Maschile Femminile é Oltre", Palazzo Branciforte, Palermo

• 1998

  Group show, Mostrato, Pescara

• 1998

  Group show, "Echolot", Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel, Germany

• 1998

  Group show, "Transatlantico", Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Canary Islands

• 1998

  Group show, "A Noir", Triennale di Milano, Milan

• 1998

  Group show, "Interference", Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid

• 1998

  Group show, "Genders & Nations: Reflections on Women in Revolution', Jonesborough

• 1998

  Group Show, Museum of Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

• 1998

  Group show, "Unbeschreiblich Weiblich (English: Indescribable Female)", Groningen, the Netherlands

• 1998

  Participated in the "5th International Istanbul Biennale: "On Life, Beauty, Translations & other Difficulties", Istanbul

• 1998

  Solo show, "Women of Allah", European House of Photography, Paris

• 1999

  Solo show, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden

• 1999

  Solo show, "FOCUS: Shirin Neshat, Rapture", Art Institute of Chicago

• 1999

  Solo show, "Rapture", Patrick Painter Gallery, Los Angeles

• 1999

  Solo show, "Rapture", D’Amelio Terras, New York

• 1999

  Solo show, Henie Onstad Kuntstenter, Høvikodden, Norway

• 1999

  Solo show, Tensta Konsthall, Spanga

• 1999

  Group show, "Heaven: An Show that will Break Your Heart", Tate Gallery Liverpool, Liverpool

• 1999

  Group show, "Voiceovers", Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

• 1999

  Group show, 54th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

• 1999

  Group show, "My Culture? My Self: Lee Friedlander, Gerhard Richter, Christian Boltanski & Shirin Neshat", Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto

• 1999

  Group show, "Exploding Cinema", Rotterdam Film Festival, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

• 1999

  Group show, "Unfinished History", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

• 1999

  Group show, "Video Cultures", Center for Art and Media Technology, Karlsruhe

• 1999

  Group dxhibition, "The City, the Garden, the Memory", Villa Medici, Rome

• 1999

  Group show, "Site Santa Fe: Looking for a Place", Santa Fe

• 1999

  Group Show, "Zeitwenden: Rückblick und Ausblick (English: Retrospect and Prospect)", Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany

• 1999

  Group show, "Heavenly Figure", Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany

• 1999

  Received her First International Prize, Winner of Golden Lion International Prize in the 48th Venice Biennale for the work "Rapture"

• 1999

  Prize for best project, ARCO, Madrid

• 1999

  Participated in the 48th International Art Show of Venice Biennale, Italy

• 1999

  Solo show, "Rapture", Galerie Jerôme de Noirmont, Paris

• 1999

  Group show, "Zeitwenden: Rückblick und Ausblick (English: Retrospect & Prospect)", Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn

• 1999

  Group show, "Project 70: Shirin Neshat, Simon Patterson, Xu Bing", Museum of Modern Art, New York

• 1999

  Group show, "Global Art Rheinland 2000", Museum Ludwig Köln, Cologne

• 1999

  Group show, "Shirin Neshat: Rapture / Pipilotti Rist: Sip my Ocean", The Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia

• 1999

  

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• 2000

• 2000

  CalArts, Winner of Alpert Award in the Arts, Pasadena, CA

• 2000

  Solo show, Dallas Museum of Art

• 2000

  Solo show, Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna

• 2000

  Solo show, Serpentine Gallery, London

• 2000

  Solo show, "Recent Photographic Work", Pitti Discovery, Florence

• 2000

  Solo show, Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan

• 2000

  Solo show, "Two Installations", Wexner Centre for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio

• 2000

  Group show, "Corpo Chimico", Cá di Fra, Milan

• 2000

  Group show, "Photography Now: An International Survey of Contemporary Photography", Contemporary Arts Centre, New Orleans

• 2000

  Group show, "Erresitentziak/Resistencias", Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastian

• 2000

  Group show, "Turbulent", The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh

• 2000

  Group show, "La Beauté en Avignon", Avignon

• 2000

  Group show, "Continental Shift", Ludwig Forum, Aachen

• 2000

  Group show, "Outbound: Passages from the 90’s", Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas

• 2000

  Group show, "Greater New York: New Art in New York Now", P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York

• 2000

  Group show, Nordrhein-Westfalen Art Collection, Düsseldorf

• 2000

  Grand Prize at the Gwangju Biennale

• 2000

  Biennale, "Sharing Exoticism", Lyon Biennial, Lyon

• 2000

  Participated in the "12th Biennale of Sydney", Australia

• 2000

  Participated in Gwangju Biennale, "Man & Space: 3d"

• 2000

  Solo show, "Matrix 187: Turbulent", Matrix Gallery, Berkeley Art museum

• 2000

  Solo show, "Concentrations 34: Shirin Neshat", Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas

• 2000

  Group show, "State of the Art: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

• 2000

  Group show, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

• 2000

  Group show, "Contact: A 90’s Journal", Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas

• 2000

  Group show, "The End: An Independent Vision of Contemporary Culture, 1982-2000", Exit Art, New York

• 2000

  

• 2001

  Solo show, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens

• 2001

  Visiting artist, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan

• 2001

  Solo show, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montreal

• 2001

  Solo show, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

• 2001

  Solo show, Patrick Painter, Santa Monica, California

• 2001

  Solo show, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York

• 2001

  Solo show, Kanazawa Contemporary Art Museum, Kanazawa

• 2001

  Solo show, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

• 2001

  Group show, "Ornament and Abstraction: The Dialogue between Non-western, Modern and Contemporary Art", Beyeler Foundation, Basel

• 2001

  Group show, Galerie Faurschou, Copenhagen

• 2001

  Group show, "Black + White", Blains Fine Art, London

• 2001

  Group show, "New Acquisitions from the Dakis Joannou Collection", Deste Foundation, Athens

• 2001

  Group show, "Mona Hatoum - Shirin Neshat", French Institute, Rabbat

• 2001

  Group show, Croatian Photographic Union

• 2001

  Group show, Arte Contemporaneo Internacional, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City

• 2001

  Group show, "The Beauty of the Evil", Armando Museum, Amsterdam

• 2001

  Performance, "Logic of the Birds (Phase One)", The Kitchen, New York

• 2001

  Participated in the Biennial de Valencia, Valencia

• 2001

  

• 2002

  Obtained Award for Visual Art, International Center for Photography, New York

• 2002

  Solo show, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

• 2002

  Solo show, "Rapture", Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao

• 2002

  Solo show, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark

• 2002

  Solo show, Castello di Rivoli, Turin

• 2002

  Solo show, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw

• 2002

  Solo show, "Entre Extremos", Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro

• 2002

  Solo show, "Passage", Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

• 2002

  Group show, “Real Life”, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall

• 2002

  Group show, "Diversions", Contemporary Museum, Baltimore

• 2002

  Group show, "Recent Acquisitions", Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York

• 2002

  Group show, "The Beauty of the Evil", Zonnehof, Amersfoort, The Netherlands & Documenta 11, Kassel

• 2002

  Group show, "Picturing Ourselves", Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts

• 2002

  Group show, "Moving Pictures", Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York

• 2002

  Group show, "Visions from America", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

• 2002

  Group show, "Iconos Metropolitanos", Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires

• 2002

  Group show, "New Art", Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran

• 2002

  Group show, "Real Life", Tate St. Ives, Cornwall

• 2002

  Performance, "Logic of the Birds", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

• 2002

  Performance, "Logic of the Birds", Lincoln Center, New York

• 2002

  Performance, "Logic of the Birds", ArtAngel, London

• 2002

  Group show, "Synopsis II-Theologies", The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens

• 2002

  Group show, "Alter Ego", Jean-Gabriel Mitterrand Galery, Paris

• 2002

  

• 2003

  Honore at the First Annual Risk Takers in the Arts Celebration, Given by The Sundance Institute, New York

• 2003

  Winner of ZeroOne Award, Universität der Künste, Berlin

• 2003

  Award & Grant, Fine Art Prize, Heitland Foundation, Celle

• 2003

  Solo show, "Tooba", Asia Society Museum, New York

• 2003

  Solo show, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon

• 2003

  Solo show, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City

• 2003

  Solo show, Tensta Konshtall, Spanga

• 2003

  Group show, "Bill Viola and Shirin Neshat", State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

• 2003

  Group show, "Safavid", Asia Society, New York

• 2003

  Group show, "Moving Pictures", Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao

• 2003

  Group show, "Fantasies of the Harem and the New Sherezades", Centre de Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona

• 2003

  Group show, "Elsewhere", Fowler Museum, University of California, Los Angeles

• 2003

  Group show, "Imagining Prometheus", Palazzo della Ragione, Milan

• 2003

  Group show, "Films of the Iranian Diaspora", Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago

• 2003

  Group show, "Armour: The Fortification of Man", Fort Asperen Foundation, Acquoy

• 2003

  Group show, "ICP Triennial of Photography and Video", International Center of Photography, New York

• 2003

  Performance, "Logic of the Birds", Ortigia Festival, Syracuse, Sicily

• 2003

  Solo show, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam

• 2003

  Group show, "The Natural Cosmos", Stadtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany

• 2003

  Group show, "Nouredine Amir", ModeMuseum, Antwerp

• 2003

  

• 2004

  Group show, "Happy Birthday!", Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris

• 2004

  Group show, "D’une image qui ne serait pas semblant, la photographie écrite: 1950-2005", Passage de Retz, Paris

• 2004

  Group show, "Non Toccare La Donna Bianca", Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin

• 2004

  Group show, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe

• 2004

  Group show, "In Bed", Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota

• 2004

  Group show, "From Bonifatius to Beuys", Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt

• 2004

  Group show, "Monument to Now", Deste Foundation, Athens

• 2004

  Group show, "New Art", Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran

• 2004

  Group show, "The Parallel World of Marrakech", Lille

• 2004

  Group show, "Transculture", Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens

• 2004

  Group show, "Far Near Distance", House of World Culture, Berlin

• 2004

  Group show, "Masterpieces from the Museum of Contemporary Art", Chicago

• 2004

  Solo show, "Through the Eyes of Shirin Neshat", Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Támaki, Auckland

• 2005

  Show, Hiroshima City Museum of Art, Hiroshima

• 2005

  Solo show, "Possessed", Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

• 2005

  Solo show, "Zarin", Gladstone Gallery, New York

• 2005

  Solo Show, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum Für Gegenwart, Berlin

• 2005

  Solo show, ،"The Last Word", Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Leon

• 2005

  Group show, "Translation", Palais de Tokyo, Paris

• 2005

  Group show, "Remapped Realities", Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, New York

• 2005

  Group show, "Some Stories", Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

• 2005

  Group show, "About Beauty", House of World Culture, Berlin

• 2005

  Group show, "Important, Modern and Contemporary Art", Gary Nader, Miami

• 2005

  Group show, "Figure It Out", Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York

• 2005

  Hiroshima Art Prize, Hiroshima City Museum of Art, Hiroshima

• 2005

  

• 2006

  Solo show, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam

• 2006

  Solo show, "Secret of the Veil", Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo

• 2006

  Solo show, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg

• 2006

  Solo show, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam

• 2006

  Group show, "Kapital", Kent Gallery, New York

• 2006

  Group show, "Body Face Soul – The Position of Women from the 16th to 21st Century", Leopold Museum, Vienna

• 2006

  Group show, "Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection", Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki

• 2006

  Group show, "A Selected State", Emily Tsingou Gallery, London

• 2006

  Group show, "Reverence", Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York

• 2006

  Group show, "Figure it Out", Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York

• 2006

  Group show, "Without Boundary: 17 Ways of Looking", Museum of Modern Art, New York

• 2006

  The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, New York

• 2007

  Solo show, "Zarin", Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon

• 2007

  Group show, "Foto.Kunst", Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg

• 2007

  Group show, "Passage du temps – Collection François Pinault", Le Tri Postal, Lille

• 2007

  Group show, "Ten Years", Emily Tsingou Gallery, London

• 2007

  Group show, "So Close / So Far Away", BE-Part Platform voor actuele kunst, Waregem

• 2007

  Group show, "Weltempfänger (English: World Receiver)", Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

• 2007

  Group show, "After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art", Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, New York

• 2007

  Group show, "Border-Crossing Exercises", Galleri Nord Norge, Harstad

• 2007

  Group show, "Not for Sale", P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York

• 2007

  Group show, "Lights Camera Action: Artist's Film for the Cinema", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

• 2007

  Participated in the "Kunst Film Biennale", Cologne

• 2008

  Cultural Achievement Award, Asia Society, New York

• 2008

  Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship, New York

• 2008

  Solo show, Gladstone Gallery, New York

• 2008

  Solo show, "Women without Men", Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans

• 2008

  Solo show, "New Works", Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris

• 2008

  Solo show, "Women without Men”, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark

• 2008

  Solo show, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik

• 2008

  Group show, "Me Ophelia", Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

• 2008

  Group show, "Typical: Cliches of Jews and Others", The Jewish Museum of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

• 2008

  Group show, "Erranti / Wanderers in Contemporary Video Art", Museo Civico, Comune di Siena, Siena

• 2008

  Group show, "Paixóns Privadas: Visións Públicas Collections D.O. Galicia", Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo, Vigo

• 2008

  Biennale, "Shirin Neshat: Women without Men", Prospect 1: New Orleans International Biennial, Newcomb Art Gallery, New Orleans

• 2008

  

• 2009

  Cinema for Peace Special Award, Hessischer Filmpreis

• 2009

  Solo show, "Games of Desire", Gladstone Gallery, Brussels

• 2009

  Solo show, "Games of Desire", Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris

• 2009

  Solo show, "Women Without Men", National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens

• 2009

  Solo show, "Turbulent", Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen

• 2009

  Group show, "Bad Habits", Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

• 2009

  Group show, "BAROCK", Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples

• 2009

  Group show, "Being in the World: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection", Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami

• 2009

  Group show, "Brune/Blonde", Cinémathèque françoise, Paris

• 2009

  Group show, "Bad Habits", Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

• 2009

  Group show, "Shirin Neshat e Shoja Azari", Noire Contemporary Art, Turin

• 2009

  Group show, "The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women", Cheim & Read, New York

• 2009

  Group show, "Iran Inside Out", Chelsea Art Museum, New York

• 2009

  Group show, "Elles", Centre Pompidou, Paris

• 2009

  Group show, "Photographic Power and Violence, Disease, and Death Photographed", Fotomuseum, Winterthur

• 2009

  The Best Director Award, for "Women without Men", 66th Venice Film Festival

• 2009

  

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• 2010

• 2010

  Solo show, "Shirin Neshat", La Fabrica Galeria, Madrid

• 2010

  Group show, "Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

• 2010

  Group show, "ARTE Y POLITICA: CONFLICTOS Y DISYUNTIVAS", Museo de Arte de Culiacán, Culiacán

• 2010

  Group show, "Exposure: Photos from the Vault", Denver Art Museum, Denver

• 2010

  Group show, "Diabolique", Galerie de Universite du Quebec A Montreal, Montreal

• 2010

  Group show, "Disquieted", Portland Art Museum, Portland

• 2011

  Solo show, "Shirin Neshat: Soliloquy", Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield

• 2011

  Group show, "Beyond Conventions: Reimagining Human Rights in a Time of Change", Ford Foundation, New York

• 2011

  Group show, "TRA. Edge of Becoming", Palazzo Fortuny, Venice

• 2011

  Group show, "You are not Alone", Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona

• 2011

  Group show, "Big Brother, L’artiste face aux tyrans", Palais des Arts, Dinard

• 2011

  Group show, "Morceaux exquis", EDF Foundation, Paris

• 2011

  Group show, "I Know something about Love", Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London

• 2011

  Biennale, Performance, "OverRuled", PERFORMA 11, 4th Edition of New Visual Art Performance Biennial, Cedar Lake Theater

• 2011

  Solo show, "Women Without Men", Palazzo Reale, Milan

• 2011

  Group show, "In the Name of the Artists", American Contemporary Art from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Bienal Pavilion, Sao Paulo

• 2012

  Solo show, "Games of Desire", Art Plural Gallery, Singapore

• 2012

  Solo show, "The Book of Kings", Gladstone Gallery, New York

• 2012

  Solo show, "The Book of Kings", Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris

• 2012

  Group show, "OC Collects", Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach

• 2012

  Group show, "Voice of Images", Palazzo Grassi, Françoise Pinault Foundation

• 2012

  Group show, "Every Exit is an Entrance: 30 Years of Exit Art", Exit Art, New York

• 2012

  Group show, "We the People", Rauschenberg Foundation, New York

• 2012

  Group show, "The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art and Society", Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ

• 2012

  Group show, "Half the Sky: Visualized", The University of Connecticut, Contemporary Art Galleries, Storrs, Connecticut

• 2012

  Group show, "Performing for the Camera", Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona

• 2013

  Major retrospective of her works organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts

• 2013

  Member of the jury , the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival

• 2013

  Solo show, "Written on the Body", Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid

• 2013

  Solo show, Dirimart, Istanbul

• 2013

  Solo show, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan

• 2013

  Group show, "My Third Land", Frankendael Foundation, Amsterdam

• 2013

  Group show, "Collection Show II", 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

• 2013

  Group show, "Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year 1", Industry City, New York

• 2013

  Group show, "The Ghost of Architecture: Recent and Promised Gifts", Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle

• 2013

  Group show, "SKIN, an artistic atlas", Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin

• 2013

  Group show, "She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World", Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

• 2013

  Group show, "Legacy: Photographs from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection", Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut

• 2013

  Group show, "All You Need is Love", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

• 2013

  Solo show, "The Book of Kings", Faurschou Foundation, Beijing

• 2013

  

• 2014

  Crystal Award, World Economic Forum, Davos

• 2014

  Solo show, "Afterwards", Mathaf (Arab Museum of Modern Art), Doha

• 2014

  Solo show, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul

• 2014

  Solo show, Mücsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest

• 2014

  Solo show, "Our House is on Fire", Rauschenberg Foundation Project Space, New York

• 2014

  Group show, "Manifest Intention: Drawing in all its Forms", Castello di Rivoli, Turin

• 2014

  Group show, "Time Present: Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection", Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

• 2014

  Group show, "The New International", Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow

• 2014

  Group show, "Songs of Loss and Songs of Love", Gwangju Museum of Art

• 2014

  Group show, "Look at Me: Portraiture from Manet to the Present", Lelia Heller Gallery, New York

• 2014

  Group show, "I Look at Things: Work From the Collection", Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen

• 2014

  Group show, "CONFLICT: Art and War", Contemporary Art Society, London

• 2014

  Group show, "Pionniéres: Shirin Neshat and Others", CAB Art Center, Brussels

• 2014

  Group show, "Toledo Contemporánea", Centro Cultural San Marcos, Toledo

• 2014

  Biennale, "The Future (Looking Forward)", La Biennale de Montréal, Montreal

• 2014

  Group show, "Shirin Neshat: Don’t Ask Where the Love is Gone", Moscow Photobiennale, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow

• 2015

  Solo show, "The Home of My Eyes", Yarat Art Center, Baku

• 2015

  Solo show, "Facing History", Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

• 2015

  Group show, "Islamic Art Now: Contemporary Art of the Middle East", LACMA, Los Angeles

• 2015

  Group show, "She who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World", Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, California

• 2015

  Group show, "Gender in Art", Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Krakow

• 2015

  Group show, "Diverse Works: Director’s Choice, 1997-2015", Brooklyn Museum, New York

• 2015

  Group show, "Looking Women", Casa dei Tre Oci, Venice

• 2015

  Group show, "The Mannequin of History: Art After Fabrications of Critique and Culture", Manifattura dei Tabacchi, Modena

• 2015

  Group show, "Us is Them", Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio

• 2015

  Group show, "About Trees", Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern

• 2015

  Group show, "Phantom Bodies", The First Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee

• 2015

  

• 2015

  Solo show, "Shirin Neshat: Facing History", Smithsonians Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC

• 2016

  USA Rockefeller Fellow, United States Artists, New York

• 2016

  Solo show, Dirimart, Istanbul

• 2016

  Solo show, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg

• 2016

  Group show, "Summer Show", Goodman Gallery, Cape Town

• 2016

  Group show, "Seeing|Saying: Images and Words", Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina

• 2016

  Group show, "Behind the Curtain: Concealment and Revelation since the Renaissance", Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf

• 2016

  Group show, "She: International Women Artists Show", Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai

• 2016

  Group show, "Looking at the World around you: Contemporary Works from Qatar Museums", Santander Art Gallery, Madrid

• 2016

  Group show, "Art and Resolution: 1900 to Today", Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine

• 2017

  Solo show, Es Baluard, Palma, Majorca

• 2017

  Group show, "KLM Art Collection", Museum Jan van der Togt, Amstelveen

• 2017

  Group show, "21, 39 Jeddah Arts", Saudi Art Council, Jeddah

• 2017

  Solo show, "Dreamers", Dirimart, Istanbul

• 2018

  Participated in the 4th Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India

• 2018

  Art fair, Art Basel Miami Beach, Represented by Goodman Gallery, Florida

• 2018

  Group show, "In the Fields of Empty Days", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

• 2018

  Group show, "This Past Was Waiting For Me", Goodman Gallery, Cape Town

• 2018

  Art fair, Art Basel Miami Beach, Represented by Goodman Gallery, Miami Beach

• 2018

  Art fair, FIAC, Represented by Gladstone Gallery, Paris

• 2018

  Group show, "In the Fields of Empty Days", LACMA, Los Angeles County

• 2019

  Solo show, Bailly Gallery, Geneva

• 2019

  Art fair, 1-54 Marrakech, Represented by Goodman Gallery, Morocco

• 2019

  Art fair, 1 54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Represented by Goodman Gallery, New York

• 2019

  Art fair, Art Basel, Represented by David Kordansky Gallery, Basel

• 2019

  Solo show, "Retrospective: I Will Greet The Sun Again", The Broad Museum, Los Angeles

• 2019

  Art fair, Art Brussels, Represented by Repetto Gallery, Brussels

• 2019

  Group show, "Likenesses", Haines Gallery, California

• 2019

  Solo show, "Retrospective: I Will Greet The Sun Again ", The Broad Museum, Los Angeles

• 2019

  Group show, "A Rain of Light & Death", 17ESSEX, New York

• 2019

  Art fair, Art Brussels, Represented by Repetto Gallery, Belgium

• 2019

  Group show, "The Book of Kings", Total Arts at the Courtyard Gallery, Dubai

• 2019

  Art fair, Art Basel, Represented by Goodman Gallery, Basel

• 2019

  Art fair, FIAC, Represented by Gladstone Gallery, Paris

• 2019

  Art fair, Artissima, Represented by Noire Gallery, Turin

• 2019

  Art fair, Frieze Art Fair New York, Represented by Goodman Gallery, New York

• 2019

  Art fair, Art Basel, Represented by Goodman Gallery, Basel

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• 2020

• 2020

  Solo show, "Land of Dreams", Goodman Gallery, Cape Town

• 2020

  Art fair, India Art Fair, Represented by Sakshi Gallery, New Delhi

• 2020

  Art fair, Frieze Art Fair New York, Represented by Goodman Gallery, New York

• 2020

  Group show, "Not So Simple", Krakow Witkin Gallery, Massachusetts

• 2020

  Art fair, Photo London, Represented by Goodman Gallery, London

• 2020

  Art fair, Frieze Art Fair London, Represented by Goodman Gallery, London

• 2020

  Solo show, "Soliloquy", Tate Modern, London

• 2020

  Group show, "One by One", Azad Art Gallery, Tehran

• 2021

  Solo show, "Land of Dreams", Gladstone Gallery, New York

• 2021

  Group show, "A Boundless Drop To a Boundless Ocean", Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando

• 2021

  Group show, "Epic Iran", Victoria and Albert Museum, London

• 2021

  Group show, "Icons and Identities", National Museum of Korea, Seoul

• 2021

  Art fair, Frieze Art Fair New York, Represented by Goodman Gallery, New York

• 2021

  Solo show, "Shirin Neshat's Artworks", Goodman Gallery, Cape Town

• 2021

  Group show, "Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians", Asia Society Museum, New York

• 2021

  Group show, "Artists' Emergency Aid: Part 3", Mohsen Gallery, Tehran

• 2021

  Group show, "Force Majeure", Tarble Arts Center, Charleston

• 2021

  Group show, "Ladies and Gentlemen", Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz

• 2021

  Group show, "A Rare Collection of Iranian Modern Art", Leila Heller, Dubai

• 2021

  Solo show, "Living in One Land, Dreaming in Another", Pinakothek of the Modern, Munich

• 2021

  Group show, "Personae: Masks Against Barbarism", Es Baluard Museu dArt Contemporani, Balearic Islands

• 2022

  Group show, " Faurschou Collection", Faurschou Foundation, Brooklyn

• 2022

  Solo show, "Land of Dreams", MOCA Toronto, Toronto

• 2022

  Group show, "Unbeatable Women: Power and Innovation in the Work of Women Photographers", Lyman Allyn Art Museum, Connecticut

• 2022

  Group show, "Icons and Identities: Shakespeare to Winehouse", National Portrait Gallery, London

• 2022

  Solo show, "Land of Dreams", Dirimart, Istanbul

• 2022

  Group show, "Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt", Henry Gallery, Seatle

• 2022

  Group show, "Eyes on Iran", Non Gallery Space, Tehran

• 2023

  Solo show, "The Fury", Gladstone Gallery, New York

• 2023

  Group show, "Stand for Women", Non Gallery Space, Tehran

• 2023

  Group show, "The Storyteller", Leila Heller Gallery, New York

• 2023

  Group show, "Women Defining Women in Contemporary Art of the Middle East and Beyond", LACMA, Los Angeles County

• 2023

  Group show, "The Resistance of Pen and Paper", Richard Saltoun Gallery, London

• 2023

  Solo show, "The Fury", Goodman Gallery, London

• 2023

  Group show, "Lessons of Freedom: Notes for a Trip to Iran, 1970-2023", Podbielski Contemporary, Milan

• 2024

  Solo show, "The Fury", Dirimart, Istanbul

• 2024

  Art fair, MIA, Represented by Noire Gallery, Milan

• 2024

  Group show, "…I Kept The Night Vigil…", Leila Heller Gallery, Dubai

• 2024

  Group show, MLTPL, Hamburg

• 2025

  Solo show, "Born of Fire", Parrish Art Museum, New York

• 2025

  Group show, "Shifting Gazes: Women Through Middle Eastern Eyes", The Farjam Foundation, Dubai

• 2025

  Art fair, Frieze Art Fair New York, Represented by Goodman Gallery, New York

• 2025

  Art fair, Art Basel Paris, Represented by Goodman Gallery, Paris