Shirin Neshat was born on March 26, 1957 in Qazvin, Iran. She is an Iranian visual artist who lives in New York. She is known primarily for her work in film, video and photography. Neshat's parents were upper middle-class. Her father was a well-respected physician and her mother a homemaker. She grew up in a westernized household that adored the Shah of Iran and his ideologies. Neshat left Iran to study art in Los Angeles. It was about this time that the Iranian Revolution occurred. Once the revolution was over and the society was restructured as a traditional Islamic nation, her family was no longer able to enjoy the comfortable life to which they had grown accustomed. About a year after the revolution, she moved to the San Francisco Bay area .
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