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Shirin Neshat

Shirin Neshat

American-Iranian, 1957

WA-00012544

Contemporary

Representation

None documented

0

Institutional Exhibitions

10

Works in Collection

16

Assets Indexed

9

Authority-backed Facts

0

Publications Referenced

80%

Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

Influence Graph

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Authority Records (2)

WikidataQ262413

Field Verification (6 fields)

2 cross-verified · 4 single-source

NationalityDuplicate Merge + Artist Index· 85%✓
Birth yearDuplicate Merge + Artist Index· 85%✓
LocationGallery Generic + Artist Index· 72%
Primary mediumArtist Index· 40%
BiographyArtist Index· 40%
Profile imageArtist Index· 40%

Source Registry (5)

Gladstonehttps://www.artsy.net/artist/shirin-neshat
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Christies-Artsyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/shirin-neshat
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Sothebyshttps://www.sothebys.com/en/artists/shirin-neshat
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/8349
Tier 1 · Institutional92%
Artist Index
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred35%

About

Why this artist matters now

No biography available for Shirin Neshat yet.

Graph relationships

Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement

Contemporary

Medium

—

Related Artists

12 in graph

Institutional

Museum Collections

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum The Metropolitan Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Rijksmuseum Museum of Modern ArtNew York Tate Art Institute of Chicago

Canonical record

Artworks (10)

2002 · C-print

H. 19 11/16 in. (50 cm) W. 27 5/8 in. (70.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Toobaa Series

2002 · cardboard, wood (plant material), Perspex (TM), RC paper

width: 684 cm, height: 800 cm, width: 487 cm, height: 610 cm, height: 699 cm, depth: 31 cm, width: 818 cm

Passage

2001 · 35mm film transferred to video (color, sound)

Museum of Modern Art

2000 · Two-channel video (black and white, sound)

Museum of Modern Art

2000 · gelatin silver print

Unframed: 167.6 x 117.2 cm (66 x 46 1/8 in.); Framed: 176.8 x 127.2 cm (69 5/8 x 50 1/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Soliloquy

1999 · Film, 16 mm, shown as video, 2 projections, colour and sound (stereo)

overall display dimensions variable duration: 15min

Rapture

1999 · Two-channel black-and-white video, sound (projection); 13 min. loop

Art Institute of Chicago

1999 · Two-channel video (black and white, sound)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from the series Rapture

Untitled from the series Rapture

1999 · Inkjet print

15 1/8 × 22 15/16" (38.5 × 58.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

1994 · Ink on Gelatin silver print

12 × 9 in. (30.5 × 22.9 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Artwork sources (6)

10 published of 14 catalogued · 7 with image

MoMA
4 publishedof 8 catalogued4 img
The Met
2 published
Tate
1 published1 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
1 published
Art Institute Chicago
1 published1 img
Rijksmuseum
1 published1 img

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 3)

3 entries · 1 sources

Soliloquy
1999 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Fervor
2000 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Toobaa Series
2002 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

Record

Images

Artsy artist portrait

Artsy

Shirin Neshat (Wikipedia)

Wikipedia

Relationships

11

Movements1

Collections10

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum The Metropolitan Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern Art Tate

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

In collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Tate

In collection

Rijksmuseum

Market

Auction sale history

Houses that have sold works by this artist at auction

Background

Education

University of California, Berkeley

Visual Arts

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