Shirin Neshat
In Episode 20 of The Great Women Artists Podcast, Katy Hessel interviews the INCREDIBLE,\xa0internationally-acclaimed artist, Shirin Neshat.\xa0\n\nBorn in 1957 in a small city in Iran, Neshat was 17 when she was sent to the United States to complete her education \u2013 first at a school in Southern California and then to Berkeley for her university education. However, due to the Islamic Revolution in 1979, she was prevented from returning to her country for close to 20 years, and although she studied art in college, it wasn\u2019t until 1993 that she began to make art again.\xa0\n\nKnown for her work in photography, film and video that delve into issues of gender, identity and politics in Muslim countries, Neshat focuses on the relationship bewteen the personal and the political in past and present.\xa0\n\nHer personal experiences as a Muslim woman in exile have particuarly informed her practice, and it is through the the medium of photography, film and video that she explores political structures that have shaped the history of Iran. \n\nHaving just been the subject of a major survey exhibition spanning 25 years worth of work at LA\u2019s The Broad, Shirin has exhibited at museums internationally, including the Serpentine Gallery here in London, the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC, as well as a major retrospective at the Detroit Institute of Arts in 2013, and many more.\xa0https://www.thebroad.org/shirinneshat\n\nIn 1999, Neshat was awarded the Golden Lion Award, the First International Prize at the 48th Venice Biennale, and in 2009, directed her first feature-length film, Women Without Men, which received the Silver Lion Award for \u201cBest Director\u201d at the 66th Venice International Film Festival. \n\nFor those in London, an exhibition by Shirin Neshat, Titled \u201cLand of Dreams\u201d, which includes the UK premiere of her most recent body of work, is currently on view at Goodman Gallery (until 28 March). http://www.goodman-gallery.com/exhibitions/1081\n\nThank you for listening!!\n\nThis episode is sponsored by the National Art Pass and the Affordable Art Fair!\n\n@artfund:\xa0https://www.artfund.org/katy-hesselTo receive a free tote bag with your National Art Pass, enter the code GREAT at checkout!\xa0\n\n@affordableartfairuk:\xa0https://affordableartfair.com/\n\nFollow us: Katy Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel\nSound editing by Amber Miller (@amber_m.iller)\nArtwork by @thisisaliceskinner\nMusic by Ben Wetherfield\n\nhttps://www.thegreatwomenartists.com/