Morehshin Allahyari
1985–

Morehshin Allahyari is an artist, activist, and educator whose work deals with the political, social, and cultural contradictions we face every day. She uses technology as a philosophical toolset to reflect on objects and as a poetic means to document personal and collective life struggles in the 21st century. Her 3D prints of sculptural reconstructions of ancient artifacts destroyed by ISIS, titled Material Speculation: ISIS, have been exhibited worldwide.