#art, Shirin Neshat in the Women’s Artists Series

Shirin is most assuredly the most well known Iranian artist, at this time. She was born in 1957 in Qazvin, Iran and presently lives in New York. She has an extensive body of photographic work as well as audio-visuals. And her work mostly centres around the topic of women, their condition and how they are treated in Islamic countries… Neshat was raised in a family that adhered to the values of the Shah of Iran and admired western values. Her primary education was at a Catholic school in Teheran. This is how she developed the ideas of feminism and other western codes of behaviour which became a fundamental part of her artwork… In 1974 she moved to Los Angeles to begin her art studies. While there (1979) the government of the Shah was overturned by the Islamic Revolution… She enrolled at University of California in Berkeley and completed her Bachelor of Arts (1979), Master of Arts (1981) and Master of Fine Arts in 1982… After graduation she relocated to New York.

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