Shirin Neshat

Quick Facts

Full Name	Shirin Neshat
Occupation	Screenwriter
Date Of Birth	Mar 26, 1957(1957-03-26)
Age	67
Country	Iran
Birth City	Qazvin
Horoscope	Pisces

Shirin Neshat Biography

Shirin Neshat is one of the most popular and richest Screenwriter who was born on March 26, 1957 in Qazvin, Iran. Iranian screenwriter, artist and writer well-known for her work Logic of the Birds.

The actress and her mother, She and actress, Leila Hatama, are both Iranian- born. are both Iranian.

In 1975, Neshat left Iran to study art at UC Berkeley and completed her BA, MA and MFA. Neshat graduated from UC Berkeley in 1983, and soon moved to New York City. There she quickly realized that making art wasn’t going to be her profession at that time. After meeting her future husband, who ran the Storefront for Art and Architecture, an alternative space in Manhattan, she dedicated 10 years of her life to working with him there, a second education.

In 1990, Neshat returned to Iran, one year after Ayatollah Khomeini’s death. “It was probably one of the most shocking experiences that I have ever had. The difference between what I had remembered from the Iranian culture and what I was witnessing was enormous. The change was both frightening and exciting; I had never been in a country that was so ideologically based. Most noticeable, of course, was the change in people’s physical appearance and public behavior.”

His father worked as a doctor in the province of religion Qazvin.

Shirin Neshat Net Worth

Shirin Neshat is one of the richest Screenwriter from Iran. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Shirin Neshat 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She was a student at UC Berkeley for both her graduate and undergraduate studies.

Her father and the entire family were wiped out of their assets through the Iranian Revoution, and were forced to rebuild their lives.

Shirin Neshat (Persian: شیرین نشاط ‎; born 1957) is an Iranian visual artist who lives in New York City, known primarily for her work in film, video and photography. Her artwork centers on the contrasts between Islam and the West, femininity and masculinity, public life and private life, antiquity and modernity, and bridging the spaces between these subjects.

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Neshat was artist in residence at the Wexner Center for the Arts (2000) and at MASS MoCA (2001). In 2004 she was awarded an honorary professorship at the Universität der Künste, Berlin. In 2006 she was awarded The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, one of the richest prizes in the arts, given annually to “a man or woman who has made an outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and to mankind’s enjoyment and understanding of life.”

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Shirin Ranked on the list of most popular Screenwriter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Iran. Shirin Neshat celebrates birthday on March 26 of every year.

In 2001–02, Neshat collaborated with singer Sussan Deyhim and created Logic of the Birds, which was produced by curator and art historian RoseLee Goldberg. The full length multimedia production premiered at the Lincoln Center Summer Festival in 2002 and toured to the Walker Art Institute in Minneapolis and to Artangel in London. In this collaboration, as well as her other projects that incorporate music, Neshat uses sound to help create an emotionally evocative and beautiful piece that will resonate with viewers of both Eastern and Western cultures. In an interview with Bomb magazine in 2000, Neshat revealed: “Music becomes the soul, the personal, the intuitive, and neutralizes the sociopolitical aspects of the work. This combination of image and music is meant to create an experience that moves the audience.”

Why was Shirin Neilt exiled Iran?

The experience of being caught between two cultures is very much at the forefront of Shirin Neshat’s work. Neshat left Iran to study art in Los Angeles around the time of the Iranian Revolution, having been brought up to accept Western values by her father.

Is Shirin Neshat Islamic?

Born in Iran, Neshat emigrated to the United States in 1974 at the age of 17, and today has photographs, films, and videos in museum collections across the country. The Iran she knows is filled with poetry and mysticism; the Islam she practices is one that celebrates beauty.

What is Shirin Neshat doing now?

Neshat is a critic in the photography department at the Yale School of Art.

What is Shirin Neshat best known for?

Shirin Neshat is a contemporary Iranian visual artist best known for her work in photography, video, and film (such as her 1999 film Rapture),which explore the relationship between women and the religious and cultural value systems of Islam.

Why did Shirin Neshat leave her country?

From Iran to California At the age of 17, Neshat left Iran and moved to California. She left the country just as many of her close friends were becoming activists and the Iranian Revolution of 1979 broke out.