Shirin Neshat

Shirin Neshat (b.1957) is known for her black-and-white video installations and photographs which dramatically confront the stereotypes of Muslim women.  Born in Iran she has lived in the United States since the early 1970s. She first received international recognition during the mid 1990s for her Women of Allah series depicting women wearing the veil and holding guns with Iranian women’s poetry inscribed in Farsi across their faces and hands. Such images examine how human beings are trapped in social, cultural and political conditioning.