Shirin Neshat | Photo credit: Courtesy of Harper's Bazaar.

Shirin Neshat

Artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat will reflect on her own experiences as a diasporic artist and filmmaker together with Performa’s Founder and Chief Curator RoseLee Goldberg.

Shirin Neshat | Photo credit: Courtesy of Harper's Bazaar.

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Shirin Neshat | Photo credit: Courtesy of Harper's Bazaar

In Conversation with RoseLee Goldberg

Artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat will reflect on her own experiences as a diasporic artist and filmmaker, together with Performa’s Founder and Chief Curator RoseLee Goldberg.

About Shirin Neshat

Shirin Neshat is an Iranian-born artist and filmmaker living in New York. Neshat works and continues to experiment with the mediums of photography, video and film, which she imbues with highly poetic and politically charged images and narratives that question issues of power, religion, race, gender and the relationship between the past and present, East and West, individual and collective, through the lens of her personal experiences as an Iranian woman living in exile. Neshat has held numerous solo exhibitions at museums internationally including the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; The Broad, Los Angeles; Museo Correr, Venice, Italy; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C. and the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Neshat has directed three feature-length films, Women Without Men (2009), which received the Silver Lion Award for Best Director at the 66th Venice International Film Festival, Looking For Oum Kulthum (2017), and most recently Land of Dreams, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival (2021). Neshat was awarded the Golden Lion Award, the First International Prize at the 48th Biennale di Venezia (1999), the Hiroshima Freedom Prize (2005), the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize (2006) and in 2017, she received the prestigious Praemium Imperiale Award in Tokyo. She is represented by Gladstone Gallery in New York and Goodman Gallery in London.

Supporters

Protest and Performance: A Way of Life is supported by the Ford Foundation and as part of the Dutch Culture USA program by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York.

Performa Team

Senior Program Advisor and Curator at Large: Defne Ayas

Senior Curator: Kathy Noble

Hartwig Art Foundation Curatorial Fellow: Sakhi Gcina

Performa Biennial 2023 Baltic Fellow: Tina Petersone