Future Exhibitions



Shirin Neshat: Women Without Men
November 1, 2008 - February 7, 2009



The Newcomb Art Gallery is pleased to announce that it will take part in Prospect.1 New Orleans, the largest biennial of international contemporary art ever organized in the United States. During the eleven-week show, the gallery will exhibit the work of renowned Iranian-born photographer and video artist Shirin Neshat whose work explores dichotomies in contemporary Islamic society. For Prospect.1, Neshat will exhibit a multiple video installation of her ongoing work Women without Men based on a novel by author Shahrnush Parsipur, banned by the Iranian government in 1989.

For more information about the artist and her work, please click here.

Shirin Neshat
Women Without Men (woman knitting), 2004
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Edition of 5 + 1 AP
Copyright Shirin Neshat
Courtesy Gladstone Gallery