Shirin Neshat

Unveiling (Women of Allah series)
1993

An Iranian woman in an open, vertical black veil with Farsi text covering her face.

An Iranian woman in an open, vertical black veil with Farsi text covering her face.

Not on view

Date
1993

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print and ink

Dimensions
Sheet (sight): 59 3/4 × 39 3/4in. (151.8 × 101 cm)

Accession number
2000.267

Series
Women of Allah

Edition
AP 2

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee

Rights and reproductions
© Shirin Neshat

API
artworks/12874

Exhibitions

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Apr 2, 2016–Apr 2, 2017
I, YOU, WE

Apr 25–Sept 1, 2013
Full House: Views of the Whitney’s Collection at 75

June 29–Sept 3, 2006
Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940–2001

June 26–Sept 22, 2002
A Way with Words: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art

Jan 18–Mar 29, 2001

Shirin Neshat
6 works in the collection

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