Location: Bay Area / New York
Medium: 3D printing, sculpture, video, digital fabrication, web art, publication
Website: morehshin.com
Morehshin Allahyari (she/her, b. 1985, Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-Kurdish artist, activist, and writer who lives and works between the San Francisco Bay Area and New York. She received her BA in social science and media studies from the University of Tehran (2007), her MA from the University of Denver (2009), and her MFA in new media art from the University of North Texas (2012). She is an Assistant Professor of Art and Art History at Stanford University. She moved to the United States in 2007.
Her work has entered the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). She has received the United States Artists Fellowship (2021), the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant (2019), the Sundance Institute New Frontier International Fellowship (2019), and was named one of Foreign Policy’s Leading Global Thinkers (2016). She held residencies at Eyebeam (2016–17, New York), the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University, Autodesk Pier 9 Workshop (San Francisco), the Vilém Flusser Residency Program / Transmediale (Berlin), Pioneer Works, and Harvest Works.
Allahyari uses 3D simulation, video, sculpture, and digital fabrication as tools to re-figure myth and history. Through archival practices and storytelling, her work builds counternarratives against the lasting influence of Western technological colonialism in the context of MENA (Middle East and North Africa). She has coined the concept of “Digital Colonialism” (since 2015) and developed the concept of “re-Figuring” as a feminist and decolonial practice.
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