- 1957Born in Qazvin, Iran
- 1975Moved to USA
- 1975Began studying art at the University of California, Berkeley
- 1979Graduated with a B.F.A.
- 1982Received her M.F.A., University of California, Berkeley
- 1990Recipient of a sponsored project grant, New York State Council on the Arts
- 1992Group show, "Fever", Exit Art Gallery, New York
- 1993Focused on producing black and white photographs and her "Women of Allah" series
- 1993Solo show, "Unveiling", Franklin Furnace, New York
- 1993Group show, "The Office: History, Fantasy and Irregular Protocols", Organized by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in New York
- 1994Guardians of Revolution
- 1994Group show, "Three New Photographers", Haines Gallery, San Francisco
- 1994Group show, "Revolving Histories", SF Camerawork, San Francisco
- 1994Group show, "Selection from the Artists File", Artists Space, New York
- 1994Group show, "Labyrinth of Exile: Recent Works by Four Contemporary Iranian Artists", Fowler, California
- 1994Group show, Museum of Cultural History, University of California Los Angeles
- 1994Group show, "Fever", Wexner Centre for the Arts, Columbus
- 1994Group show, "Beyond the Borders: Art by Recent Immigrants", Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
- 1995Participated in the 4th International Istanbul Biennial, "Orientation", Turkey
- 1995Participated in Venice Biennale, "Transculture", Italy
- 1995Participated in the Venice Biennial 95, "Campo 95", Venice
- 1995Recipient of a Mid-Atlantic photography fellowship
- 1995Solo photography show, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
- 1995Group show, "Imaginary Beings", Exit Art, New York
- 1995Group show, Contemporary Art Museum, Okayama
- 1995Group show, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
- 1995Group show, "It’s How You Play the Game", Exit Art, New York
- 1996Participated in Sydney Biennial, "Jurassic Technologies Revenant"
- 1996Speechless
- 1996Recipient of New York Foundation for Arts Photography Fellowship
- 1996Solo show, Centre d’art de Fribourg, Fribourg
- 1996Solo show, "Women of Allah", Marco Noire Contemporary Arts, Turin
- 1996Solo show, Lucio Amelio Gallery, Naples
- 1996Solo show, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
- 1996Group show, "Le Masque et le Miroir (English: The Mask & the Mirror)", Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
- 1996Group show, "Inclusion/Exclusion", Kunstlerhaus Graz, Germany
- 1996Group show, Kunsthalle Szombathely, Hungry
- 1996Group show, "Interzones", Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Copenhagen
- 1996Group show, "Ghostwriter", Mercer Union, Toronto
- 1996Group show, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
- 1996Group show, "Auf Den Leib (English: On the Body)", Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
- 1996Group show, "Gallery Artists", Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam
- 1996Group show, "Imaginary Beings", Exit Art, New York
- 1996Group show, "Anchorage", Video installation commissioned by Creative Time, Brooklyn Bridge, New York
- 1997Participated in the 2nd Johannesburg Biennial, "Trade Routes: History and Geography", South Africa
- 1997Participated in the 5th International Istanbul Biennial, "On Life, Beauty, Translations & other Difficulties", Turkey
- 1997Untitled
- 1997Solo show, "Photographs/Video Stills", Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
- 1997Solo show, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- 1997Solo show, Galleria Arte Moderna, Bolgna
- 1997Solo show, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
- 1997Solo show, Lumen Travo, Amsterdam
- 1997Solo show, "Women of Allah", Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
- 1997Group show, "Unbeschreiblich Weiblich (English: Indescribable Female)", Groningen, the Netherlands
- 1997Group show, "Fracturing the Gaze', Lawing Gallery, Houston, Texas
- 1997Group show, "Feminine Image", Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York
- 1997Group show, "Triple X: Contemporary Investigating Arts", International Art Festival, Amsterdam
- 1997Group show, "Der Rest der Welt (English: The Rest of the World)", House of World Cultures, Berlin
- 1997Group show, "International Art Festival City of Medellin", Columbia
- 1997Group show, "Foto Text/Text Foto", Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art Bolzano, Italy
- 1997Group show, Frankfurt Art Club, Frankfurt
- 1997Group show, "Le Masque et le Miroir (English: The Mask & the Mirror", Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain
- 1998Participated in the "5th International Istanbul Biennale: "On Life, Beauty, Translations & other Difficulties", Istanbul
- 1998Solo show, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- 1998Solo show, Tate Gallery, London
- 1998Solo show, "Women of Allah", European House of Photography, Paris
- 1998Solo show, Thomas Rehbein Gallery, Cologne
- 1998Solo show, "ARCO", Marco Noire Contemporary Arts, Madrid
- 1998Solo show, Musei Bagatti Valsecchi, Milan
- 1998Group show, "Unfinished History", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
- 1998Group show, "In The Detail", Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich
- 1998Group show, "Disidentico: Maschile Femminile é Oltre", Palazzo Branciforte, Palermo
- 1998Group show, "7th Summer of Photography", Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Belgium
- 1998Group show, "Mar de Fondo", Sagunto Roman Theatre, Valencia
- 1998Group show, "Vanessa Beecroft & Shirin Neshat", Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Bologna
- 1998Group show, "Maschile Femminile é Oltre", Palazzo Branciforte, Palermo
- 1998Group show, Mostrato, Pescara
- 1998Group show, "Echolot", Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel, Germany
- 1998Group show, "Transatlantico", Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Canary Islands
- 1998Group show, "A Noir", Triennale di Milano, Milan
- 1998Group show, "Interference", Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid
- 1998Group show, "Genders & Nations: Reflections on Women in Revolution', Jonesborough
- 1998Group Show, Museum of Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
- 1998Group show, "Unbeschreiblich Weiblich (English: Indescribable Female)", Groningen, the Netherlands
- 1999Received her First International Prize, Winner of Golden Lion International Prize in the 48th Venice Biennale for the work "Rapture"
- 1999Prize for best project, ARCO, Madrid
- 1999Participated in the 48th International Art Show of Venice Biennale, Italy
- 1999Untitled
- 1999Solo show, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden
- 1999Solo show, "FOCUS: Shirin Neshat, Rapture", Art Institute of Chicago
- 1999Solo show, "Rapture", Patrick Painter Gallery, Los Angeles
- 1999Solo show, "Rapture", D’Amelio Terras, New York
- 1999Solo show, "Rapture", Galerie Jerôme de Noirmont, Paris
- 1999Solo show, Henie Onstad Kuntstenter, Høvikodden, Norway
- 1999Solo show, Tensta Konsthall, Spanga
- 1999Group show, "Heaven: An Show that will Break Your Heart", Tate Gallery Liverpool, Liverpool
- 1999Group show, "Zeitwenden: Rückblick und Ausblick (English: Retrospect & Prospect)", Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
- 1999Group show, "Voiceovers", Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
- 1999Group show, "Project 70: Shirin Neshat, Simon Patterson, Xu Bing", Museum of Modern Art, New York
- 1999Group show, 54th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- 1999Group show, "My Culture? My Self: Lee Friedlander, Gerhard Richter, Christian Boltanski & Shirin Neshat", Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto
- 1999Group show, "Exploding Cinema", Rotterdam Film Festival, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
- 1999Group show, "Unfinished History", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
- 1999Group show, "Video Cultures", Center for Art and Media Technology, Karlsruhe
- 1999Group dxhibition, "The City, the Garden, the Memory", Villa Medici, Rome
- 1999Group show, "Global Art Rheinland 2000", Museum Ludwig Köln, Cologne
- 1999Group show, "Site Santa Fe: Looking for a Place", Santa Fe
- 1999Group Show, "Zeitwenden: Rückblick und Ausblick (English: Retrospect and Prospect)", Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
- 1999Group show, "Heavenly Figure", Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
- 1999Group show, "Shirin Neshat: Rapture / Pipilotti Rist: Sip my Ocean", The Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia
- 2000Grand Prize at the Gwangju Biennale
- 2000CalArts, Winner of Alpert Award in the Arts, Pasadena, CA
- 2000Biennale, "Sharing Exoticism", Lyon Biennial, Lyon
- 2000Participated in the "12th Biennale of Sydney", Australia
- 2000Participated in Gwangju Biennale, "Man & Space: 3d"
- 2000Crowd from back, Close UP
- 2000Solo show, Dallas Museum of Art
- 2000Solo show, Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna
- 2000Solo show, Serpentine Gallery, London
- 2000Solo show, "Matrix 187: Turbulent", Matrix Gallery, Berkeley Art museum
- 2000Solo show, "Recent Photographic Work", Pitti Discovery, Florence
- 2000Solo show, Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan
- 2000Solo show, "Concentrations 34: Shirin Neshat", Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
- 2000Solo show, "Two Installations", Wexner Centre for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
- 2000Group show, "Corpo Chimico", Cá di Fra, Milan
- 2000Group show, "Photography Now: An International Survey of Contemporary Photography", Contemporary Arts Centre, New Orleans
- 2000Group show, "State of the Art: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
- 2000Group show, "Erresitentziak/Resistencias", Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastian
- 2000Group show, "Turbulent", The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh
- 2000Group show, "La Beauté en Avignon", Avignon
- 2000Group show, "Continental Shift", Ludwig Forum, Aachen
- 2000Group show, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- 2000Group show, "Outbound: Passages from the 90’s", Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas
- 2000Group show, "Greater New York: New Art in New York Now", P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
- 2000Group show, "Contact: A 90’s Journal", Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
- 2000Group show, Nordrhein-Westfalen Art Collection, Düsseldorf
- 2000Group show, "The End: An Independent Vision of Contemporary Culture, 1982-2000", Exit Art, New York
- 2001Participated in the Biennial de Valencia, Valencia
- 2001Untitled
- 2001Solo show, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
- 2001Visiting artist, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan
- 2001Solo show, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montreal
- 2001Solo show, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
- 2001Solo show, Patrick Painter, Santa Monica, California
- 2001Solo show, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
- 2001Solo show, Kanazawa Contemporary Art Museum, Kanazawa
- 2001Solo show, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
- 2001Group show, "Ornament and Abstraction: The Dialogue between Non-western, Modern and Contemporary Art", Beyeler Foundation, Basel
- 2001Group show, Galerie Faurschou, Copenhagen
- 2001Group show, "Black + White", Blains Fine Art, London
- 2001Group show, "New Acquisitions from the Dakis Joannou Collection", Deste Foundation, Athens
- 2001Group show, "Mona Hatoum - Shirin Neshat", French Institute, Rabbat
- 2001Group show, Croatian Photographic Union
- 2001Group show, Arte Contemporaneo Internacional, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
- 2001Group show, "The Beauty of the Evil", Armando Museum, Amsterdam
- 2001Performance, "Logic of the Birds (Phase One)", The Kitchen, New York
- 2002Obtained Award for Visual Art, International Center for Photography, New York
- 2002Tooba series
- 2002Solo show, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
- 2002Solo show, "Rapture", Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
- 2002Solo show, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark
- 2002Solo show, Castello di Rivoli, Turin
- 2002Solo show, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
- 2002Solo show, "Entre Extremos", Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro
- 2002Solo show, "Passage", Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- 2002Group show, “Real Life”, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall
- 2002Group show, "Diversions", Contemporary Museum, Baltimore
- 2002Group show, "Synopsis II-Theologies", The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
- 2002Group show, "Recent Acquisitions", Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York
- 2002Group show, "The Beauty of the Evil", Zonnehof, Amersfoort, The Netherlands & Documenta 11, Kassel
- 2002Group show, "Picturing Ourselves", Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts
- 2002Group show, "Moving Pictures", Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York
- 2002Group show, "Visions from America", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- 2002Group show, "Iconos Metropolitanos", Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires
- 2002Group show, "New Art", Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
- 2002Group show, "Real Life", Tate St. Ives, Cornwall
- 2002Performance, "Logic of the Birds", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
- 2002Performance, "Logic of the Birds", Lincoln Center, New York
- 2002Performance, "Logic of the Birds", ArtAngel, London
- 2002Group show, "Alter Ego", Jean-Gabriel Mitterrand Galery, Paris
- 2003Honore at the First Annual Risk Takers in the Arts Celebration, Given by The Sundance Institute, New York
- 2003Winner of ZeroOne Award, Universität der Künste, Berlin
- 2003Award & Grant, Fine Art Prize, Heitland Foundation, Celle
- 2003Mahdokht
- 2003Solo show, "Tooba", Asia Society Museum, New York
- 2003Solo show, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon
- 2003Solo show, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam
- 2003Solo show, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
- 2003Solo show, Tensta Konshtall, Spanga
- 2003Group show, "Bill Viola and Shirin Neshat", State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
- 2003Group show, "Safavid", Asia Society, New York
- 2003Group show, "Moving Pictures", Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao
- 2003Group show, "Fantasies of the Harem and the New Sherezades", Centre de Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona
- 2003Group show, "Elsewhere", Fowler Museum, University of California, Los Angeles
- 2003Group show, "The Natural Cosmos", Stadtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
- 2003Group show, "Imagining Prometheus", Palazzo della Ragione, Milan
- 2003Group show, "Nouredine Amir", ModeMuseum, Antwerp
- 2003Group show, "Films of the Iranian Diaspora", Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago
- 2003Group show, "Armour: The Fortification of Man", Fort Asperen Foundation, Acquoy
- 2003Group show, "ICP Triennial of Photography and Video", International Center of Photography, New York
- 2003Performance, "Logic of the Birds", Ortigia Festival, Syracuse, Sicily
- 2004Solo show, "Through the Eyes of Shirin Neshat", Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Támaki, Auckland
- 2004Group show, "Happy Birthday!", Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris
- 2004Group show, "D’une image qui ne serait pas semblant, la photographie écrite: 1950-2005", Passage de Retz, Paris
- 2004Group show, "Non Toccare La Donna Bianca", Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
- 2004Group show, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe
- 2004Group show, "In Bed", Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota
- 2004Group show, "From Bonifatius to Beuys", Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt
- 2004Group show, "Monument to Now", Deste Foundation, Athens
- 2004Group show, "New Art", Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
- 2004Group show, "The Parallel World of Marrakech", Lille
- 2004Group show, "Transculture", Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
- 2004Group show, "Far Near Distance", House of World Culture, Berlin
- 2004Group show, "Masterpieces from the Museum of Contemporary Art", Chicago
- 2005Hiroshima Art Prize, Hiroshima City Museum of Art, Hiroshima
- 2005Untitled
- 2005Show, Hiroshima City Museum of Art, Hiroshima
- 2005Solo show, "Possessed", Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
- 2005Solo show, "Zarin", Gladstone Gallery, New York
- 2005Solo Show, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum Für Gegenwart, Berlin
- 2005Solo show, ،"The Last Word", Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Leon
- 2005Group show, "Translation", Palais de Tokyo, Paris
- 2005Group show, "Remapped Realities", Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, New York
- 2005Group show, "Some Stories", Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
- 2005Group show, "About Beauty", House of World Culture, Berlin
- 2005Group show, "Important, Modern and Contemporary Art", Gary Nader, Miami
- 2005Group show, "Figure It Out", Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York
- 2006The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, New York
- 2006Solo show, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam
- 2006Solo show, "Secret of the Veil", Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo
- 2006Solo show, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
- 2006Solo show, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam
- 2006Group show, "Kapital", Kent Gallery, New York
- 2006Group show, "Body Face Soul – The Position of Women from the 16th to 21st Century", Leopold Museum, Vienna
- 2006Group show, "Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection", Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki
- 2006Group show, "A Selected State", Emily Tsingou Gallery, London
- 2006Group show, "Reverence", Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York
- 2006Group show, "Figure it Out", Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York
- 2006Group show, "Without Boundary: 17 Ways of Looking", Museum of Modern Art, New York
- 2007Participated in the "Kunst Film Biennale", Cologne
- 2007Solo show, "Zarin", Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon
- 2007Group show, "Foto.Kunst", Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg
- 2007Group show, "Passage du temps – Collection François Pinault", Le Tri Postal, Lille
- 2007Group show, "Ten Years", Emily Tsingou Gallery, London
- 2007Group show, "So Close / So Far Away", BE-Part Platform voor actuele kunst, Waregem
- 2007Group show, "Weltempfänger (English: World Receiver)", Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
- 2007Group show, "After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art", Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, New York
- 2007Group show, "Border-Crossing Exercises", Galleri Nord Norge, Harstad
- 2007Group show, "Not for Sale", P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
- 2007Group show, "Lights Camera Action: Artist's Film for the Cinema", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- 2008Cultural Achievement Award, Asia Society, New York
- 2008Biennale, "Shirin Neshat: Women without Men", Prospect 1: New Orleans International Biennial, Newcomb Art Gallery, New Orleans
- 2008Revolutionary man
- 2008Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship, New York
- 2008Solo show, Gladstone Gallery, New York
- 2008Solo show, "Women without Men", Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans
- 2008Solo show, "New Works", Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris
- 2008Solo show, "Women without Men”, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
- 2008Solo show, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik
- 2008Group show, "Me Ophelia", Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
- 2008Group show, "Typical: Cliches of Jews and Others", The Jewish Museum of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- 2008Group show, "Erranti / Wanderers in Contemporary Video Art", Museo Civico, Comune di Siena, Siena
- 2008Group show, "Paixóns Privadas: Visións Públicas Collections D.O. Galicia", Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo, Vigo
- 2009The Best Director Award, for "Women without Men", 66th Venice Film Festival
- 2009Cinema for Peace Special Award, Hessischer Filmpreis
- 2009Games of Desire: Solo 2
- 2009Solo show, "Games of Desire", Gladstone Gallery, Brussels
- 2009Solo show, "Games of Desire", Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris
- 2009Solo show, "Women Without Men", National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
- 2009Solo show, "Turbulent", Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen
- 2009Group show, "Bad Habits", Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
- 2009Group show, "BAROCK", Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples
- 2009Group show, "Being in the World: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection", Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami
- 2009Group show, "Brune/Blonde", Cinémathèque françoise, Paris
- 2009Group show, "Bad Habits", Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
- 2009Group show, "Shirin Neshat e Shoja Azari", Noire Contemporary Art, Turin
- 2009Group show, "The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women", Cheim & Read, New York
- 2009Group show, "Iran Inside Out", Chelsea Art Museum, New York
- 2009Group show, "Elles", Centre Pompidou, Paris
- 2009Group show, "Photographic Power and Violence, Disease, and Death Photographed", Fotomuseum, Winterthur
- 2010Solo show, "Shirin Neshat", La Fabrica Galeria, Madrid
- 2010Group show, "Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
- 2010Group show, "ARTE Y POLITICA: CONFLICTOS Y DISYUNTIVAS", Museo de Arte de Culiacán, Culiacán
- 2010Group show, "Exposure: Photos from the Vault", Denver Art Museum, Denver
- 2010Group show, "Diabolique", Galerie de Universite du Quebec A Montreal, Montreal
- 2010Group show, "Disquieted", Portland Art Museum, Portland
- 2011Biennale, Performance, "OverRuled", PERFORMA 11, 4th Edition of New Visual Art Performance Biennial, Cedar Lake Theater
- 2011Solo show, "Women Without Men", Palazzo Reale, Milan
- 2011Solo show, "Shirin Neshat: Soliloquy", Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield
- 2011Group show, "Beyond Conventions: Reimagining Human Rights in a Time of Change", Ford Foundation, New York
- 2011Group show, "In the Name of the Artists", American Contemporary Art from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Bienal Pavilion, Sao Paulo
- 2011Group show, "TRA. Edge of Becoming", Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
- 2011Group show, "You are not Alone", Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona
- 2011Group show, "Big Brother, L’artiste face aux tyrans", Palais des Arts, Dinard
- 2011Group show, "Morceaux exquis", EDF Foundation, Paris
- 2011Group show, "I Know something about Love", Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London
- 2012Solo show, "Games of Desire", Art Plural Gallery, Singapore
- 2012Solo show, "The Book of Kings", Gladstone Gallery, New York
- 2012Solo show, "The Book of Kings", Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris
- 2012Group show, "OC Collects", Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
- 2012Group show, "Voice of Images", Palazzo Grassi, Françoise Pinault Foundation
- 2012Group show, "Every Exit is an Entrance: 30 Years of Exit Art", Exit Art, New York
- 2012Group show, "We the People", Rauschenberg Foundation, New York
- 2012Group show, "The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art and Society", Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
- 2012Group show, "Half the Sky: Visualized", The University of Connecticut, Contemporary Art Galleries, Storrs, Connecticut
- 2012Group show, "Performing for the Camera", Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona
- 2013Rahim
- 2013Major retrospective of her works organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts
- 2013Member of the jury , the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival
- 2013Solo show, "Written on the Body", Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid
- 2013Solo show, Dirimart, Istanbul
- 2013Solo show, "The Book of Kings", Faurschou Foundation, Beijing
- 2013Solo show, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
- 2013Group show, "My Third Land", Frankendael Foundation, Amsterdam
- 2013Group show, "Collection Show II", 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
- 2013Group show, "Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year 1", Industry City, New York
- 2013Group show, "The Ghost of Architecture: Recent and Promised Gifts", Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
- 2013Group show, "SKIN, an artistic atlas", Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
- 2013Group show, "She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World", Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- 2013Group show, "Legacy: Photographs from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection", Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut
- 2013Group show, "All You Need is Love", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
- 2014Crystal Award, World Economic Forum, Davos
- 2014Biennale, "The Future (Looking Forward)", La Biennale de Montréal, Montreal
- 2014Solo show, "Afterwards", Mathaf (Arab Museum of Modern Art), Doha
- 2014Solo show, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
- 2014Solo show, Mücsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest
- 2014Solo show, "Our House is on Fire", Rauschenberg Foundation Project Space, New York
- 2014Group show, "Manifest Intention: Drawing in all its Forms", Castello di Rivoli, Turin
- 2014Group show, "Time Present: Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection", Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
- 2014Group show, "The New International", Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
- 2014Group show, "Songs of Loss and Songs of Love", Gwangju Museum of Art
- 2014Group show, "Look at Me: Portraiture from Manet to the Present", Lelia Heller Gallery, New York
- 2014Group show, "I Look at Things: Work From the Collection", Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen
- 2014Group show, "CONFLICT: Art and War", Contemporary Art Society, London
- 2014Group show, "Shirin Neshat: Don’t Ask Where the Love is Gone", Moscow Photobiennale, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
- 2014Group show, "Pionniéres: Shirin Neshat and Others", CAB Art Center, Brussels
- 2014Group show, "Toledo Contemporánea", Centro Cultural San Marcos, Toledo
- 2015Malaksima
- 2015Solo show, "The Home of My Eyes", Yarat Art Center, Baku
- 2015Solo show, "Facing History", Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
- 2015Group show, "Islamic Art Now: Contemporary Art of the Middle East", LACMA, Los Angeles
- 2015Group show, "She who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World", Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, California
- 2015Group show, "Gender in Art", Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Krakow
- 2015Group show, "Diverse Works: Director’s Choice, 1997-2015", Brooklyn Museum, New York
- 2015Group show, "Looking Women", Casa dei Tre Oci, Venice
- 2015Group show, "The Mannequin of History: Art After Fabrications of Critique and Culture", Manifattura dei Tabacchi, Modena
- 2015Group show, "Us is Them", Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio
- 2015Group show, "About Trees", Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
- 2015Group show, "Phantom Bodies", The First Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee
- 2015Solo show, "Shirin Neshat: Facing History", Smithsonians Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
- 2016USA Rockefeller Fellow, United States Artists, New York
- 2016Solo show, Dirimart, Istanbul
- 2016Solo show, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
- 2016Group show, "Summer Show", Goodman Gallery, Cape Town
- 2016Group show, "Art and Resolution: 1900 to Today", Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
- 2016Group show, "Seeing|Saying: Images and Words", Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina
- 2016Group show, "Behind the Curtain: Concealment and Revelation since the Renaissance", Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
- 2016Group show, "She: International Women Artists Show", Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai
- 2016Group show, "Looking at the World around you: Contemporary Works from Qatar Museums", Santander Art Gallery, Madrid
- 2017Solo show, "Dreamers", Dirimart, Istanbul
- 2017Solo show, Es Baluard, Palma, Majorca
- 2017Group show, "KLM Art Collection", Museum Jan van der Togt, Amstelveen
- 2017Group show, "21, 39 Jeddah Arts", Saudi Art Council, Jeddah
- 2018Participated in the 4th Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India
- 2018Art fair, Art Basel Miami Beach, Represented by Goodman Gallery, Florida
- 2018Art fair, Art Basel Miami Beach, Represented by Goodman Gallery, Miami Beach
- 2018Art fair, FIAC, Represented by Gladstone Gallery, Paris
- 2018Group show, "This Past Was Waiting For Me", Goodman Gallery, Cape Town
- 2018Group show, "In the Fields of Empty Days", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
- 2018Group show, "In the Fields of Empty Days", LACMA, Los Angeles County
- 2019Art fair, 1-54 Marrakech, Represented by Goodman Gallery, Morocco
- 2019Art fair, Art Brussels, Represented by Repetto Gallery, Belgium
- 2019Art fair, Art Basel, Represented by Goodman Gallery, Basel
- 2019Art fair, Art Basel, Represented by David Kordansky Gallery, Basel
- 2019Art fair, Frieze Art Fair New York, Represented by Goodman Gallery, New York
- 2019Art fair, Art Brussels, Represented by Repetto Gallery, Brussels
- 2019Art fair, 1 54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Represented by Goodman Gallery, New York
- 2019Solo show, Bailly Gallery, Geneva
- 2019Group show, "A Rain of Light & Death", 17ESSEX, New York
- 2019Group show, "The Book of Kings", Total Arts at the Courtyard Gallery, Dubai
- 2019Group show, "Likenesses", Haines Gallery, California
- 2019Solo show, "Retrospective: I Will Greet The Sun Again", The Broad Museum, Los Angeles
- 2019Solo show, "Retrospective: I Will Greet The Sun Again ", The Broad Museum, Los Angeles
- 2019Art fair, FIAC, Represented by Gladstone Gallery, Paris
- 2019Art fair, Artissima, Represented by Noire Gallery, Turin
- 2019Art fair, Art Basel, Represented by Goodman Gallery, Basel
- 2020Solo show, "Land of Dreams", Goodman Gallery, Cape Town
- 2020Art fair, Frieze Art Fair London, Represented by Goodman Gallery, London
- 2020Art fair, Frieze Art Fair New York, Represented by Goodman Gallery, New York
- 2020Art fair, Photo London, Represented by Goodman Gallery, London
- 2020Solo show, "Soliloquy", Tate Modern, London
- 2020Art fair, India Art Fair, Represented by Sakshi Gallery, New Delhi
- 2020Group show, "Not So Simple", Krakow Witkin Gallery, Massachusetts
- 2020Group show, "One by One", Azad Art Gallery, Tehran
- 2021Solo show, "Land of Dreams", Gladstone Gallery, New York
- 2021Group show, "A Boundless Drop To a Boundless Ocean", Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando
- 2021Group show, "Icons and Identities", National Museum of Korea, Seoul
- 2021Art fair, Frieze Art Fair New York, Represented by Goodman Gallery, New York
- 2021Group show, "Epic Iran", Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- 2021Solo show, "Shirin Neshat's Artworks", Goodman Gallery, Cape Town
- 2021Group show, "Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians", Asia Society Museum, New York
- 2021Group show, "A Rare Collection of Iranian Modern Art", Leila Heller, Dubai
- 2021Solo show, "Living in One Land, Dreaming in Another", Pinakothek of the Modern, Munich
- 2021Group show, "Personae: Masks Against Barbarism", Es Baluard Museu dArt Contemporani, Balearic Islands
- 2021Group show, "Artists' Emergency Aid: Part 3", Mohsen Gallery, Tehran
- 2021Group show, "Force Majeure", Tarble Arts Center, Charleston
- 2021Group show, "Ladies and Gentlemen", Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz
- 2022Group show, " Faurschou Collection", Faurschou Foundation, Brooklyn
- 2022Solo show, "Land of Dreams", MOCA Toronto, Toronto
- 2022Solo show, "Land of Dreams", Dirimart, Istanbul
- 2022Group show, "Unbeatable Women: Power and Innovation in the Work of Women Photographers", Lyman Allyn Art Museum, Connecticut
- 2022Group show, "Icons and Identities: Shakespeare to Winehouse", National Portrait Gallery, London
- 2022Group show, "Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt", Henry Gallery, Seatle
- 2022Group show, "Eyes on Iran", Non Gallery Space, Tehran
- 2023Solo show, "The Fury", Gladstone Gallery, New York
- 2023Group show, "Stand for Women", Non Gallery Space, Tehran
- 2023Group show, "The Storyteller", Leila Heller Gallery, New York
- 2023Group show, "Women Defining Women in Contemporary Art of the Middle East and Beyond", LACMA, Los Angeles County
- 2023Group show, "The Resistance of Pen and Paper", Richard Saltoun Gallery, London
- 2023Solo show, "The Fury", Goodman Gallery, London
- 2023Group show, "Lessons of Freedom: Notes for a Trip to Iran, 1970-2023", Podbielski Contemporary, Milan
- 2024Art fair, MIA, Represented by Noire Gallery, Milan
- 2024Solo show, "The Fury", Dirimart, Istanbul
- 2024Group show, "…I Kept The Night Vigil…", Leila Heller Gallery, Dubai
- 2024Group show, MLTPL, Hamburg
- 2025Art fair, Frieze Art Fair New York, Represented by Goodman Gallery, New York
- 2025Art fair, Art Basel Paris, Represented by Goodman Gallery, Paris
- 2025Solo show, "Born of Fire", Parrish Art Museum, New York
- 2025Group show, "Shifting Gazes: Women Through Middle Eastern Eyes", The Farjam Foundation, Dubai
