Laleh Mehran

Laleh Mehran is a contemporary artist and Professor and Graduate Director in Emergent Digital Practices at the University of Denver.

Early life

Born in Iran, her family relocated to the United States when she was 10, at the beginning of the Iranian Revolution.

Career

Mehran is a multimedia artist whose interactive work blends video, performance and geometry into exciting new forms. Mehran's grand, participatory installations explore both her personal history as the daughter of Iranian scientists who fled the revolution roiling through the country in the 1970s as well as broader themes of alienation and resistance. Mehran's areas of research include the intersections of art and science, media politics, Eastern and Western philosophies and emerging forms of time-based media. Her work exists as interactive installations, videos, and performances. Mehran received her BFA in Creative Photography from The University of Florida in 1991, and her MFA in Electronic Time-Based Media from Carnegie Mellon University in 1997.

Mehran's work has been shown individually and collaboratively in the USA and international venues including the ISEA (United Arab Emirates), National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taiwan), FILE (Brazil), ACT Festival (South Korea), Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Massachusetts), Carnegie Museum of Art (Pennsylvania), The Georgia Museum of Art (Georgia), The Andy Warhol Museum (Pennsylvania), Denver Art Museum (Colorado), Biennial of the Americas at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (Colorado), 404 International Festival of Art & Technology (Argentina), Next 5 Minutes 4 Tactical Media Festival (Netherlands), European Media Arts Festival (Germany), Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (Colorado), Currents: The Santa Fe International New Media Festival (New Mexico), and the Pittsburgh Biennial (Pennsylvania).