Morehshin Allahyari is an artist, activist, and educator. Her projects, including her recent 3D-printed sculptural reconstructions of ancient artifacts destroyed by ISIS, titled Material Speculation: ISIS (2015–16), have received widespread curatorial and press attention and have been exhibited worldwide. She is the recipient of Foreign Policy magazine’s Leading Global Thinkers of 2016 Award and her work has been shown at the Queens Museum, New York; Tate Modern, London; Venice Biennale of Architecture; and Centre Pompidou, Paris, among many others.