Arts at CERN

Through archival practices and storytelling, Morehshin Allahyari’s work weaves together complex counternarratives in opposition to the lasting influence of Western technological colonialism in the context of the Middle East and North Africa.

Morehshin Allahyari is an Iranian-Kurdish artist and an assistant professor of Digital Media Art at Stanford University. She uses 3D simulation, video, code, sculpture, and digital fabrication as tools to re-figure myth and history.

Morehshin has been part of numerous exhibitions, festivals, and workshops around the world including Venice Biennale di Architettura, New Museum, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Pompidou Center, MoMa, Victoria and Albert Museum, Queens Museum, and Museum of Modern Art, Taipei. She is the recipient of the Gold Art Prize, Creative Capital Award, The University of California, Berkeley Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, The United States Artist Fellowship, The Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, The Sundance Institute New Frontier International Fellowship, and the Leading Global Thinkers of 2016 award by Foreign Policy magazine.

In 2026, Morehshin Allayhari received an Honorary Mention for Collide Stockholm, Art at CERN’s international residency award, in partnership with the Nobel Prize Museum.