was born in 1957 in Qazvin , Iran and left her country to study art in the United states at the age of seventeen. Shirin is a video and installation artist who explores political and social problems of Iranian and Muslim life in her works. She focuses in her works on women’s issues. In 1982 she gained a degree in MFA from California (artnet,no date).
She was influenced by her father because he encouraged her to be more independent, to take risks, learn and see the world (Macdonald,2004,p4).
Neshat’s uses aspects of her background culture to produce works that tap into universal ideas about, loss,meaning and memory (Iran Champer Society,2104).
Shirin’s photographs, video installations and short films explore the issues surrounding contemporary Islamic culture, Islamic identity, and particularly the subject of Islamic women (Sheybani,1992,p2).
Woman of Allah, Shirin Neshat, (1993-97)
http://www.matthewmachowski.com/2009/10/women-of-allah.html
Woman of Allah (1993-97) made up of four photographs. this art wor was a result of her visit to Iran in 1990 transformed by Islamic fundamentalism. Her art work was about revolution and the idea of “slaughter”.
