Laleh Mehran

Laleh Mehran (born 1968){{Cite web |last=Cotter |first=John |title=Immaterial Worlds |url=https://www.thesmartset.com/immaterial-worlds/ |access-date=2022-12-15 |website=The Smart Set |language=en-US}} is an Iranian-born American digital artist, and professor.{{Cite web |date=2014-03-20 |title=Laleh Mehran and Chris Coleman push art, and each other, forward |url=https://www.denverpost.com/2014/03/20/laleh-mehran-and-chris-coleman-push-art-and-each-other-forward/ |access-date=2022-12-15 |website=The Denver Post |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2012-07-19 |title=Denver Art Museum exhibit by Laleh Mehran questions the power of faith |url=https://www.denverpost.com/2012/07/19/denver-art-museum-exhibit-by-laleh-mehran-questions-the-power-of-faith/ |access-date=2022-12-15 |website=The Denver Post |language=en-US}} She is the graduate director and a professor in emergent digital practices at the University of Denver.{{Cite web | title = Another 100 Colorado Creatives: Laleh Mehran | url = http://www.westword.com/arts/another-100-colorado-creatives-laleh-mehran-5790608 | publisher = | accessdate = 26 February 2016 }}{{Cite news|url=http://www.cpr.org/news/story/through-art-laleh-mehran-explores-idea-iranian-american|title=Through Art, Laleh Mehran Explores The Idea Of Iranian-American|last=Wolf|first=Stephanie|work=Colorado Public Radio|access-date=2018-08-18|language=en}} Mehran is known for her interactive digital installation art.{{Cite news |last=Schwendener |first=Martha |date=2019-01-02 |title=Pittsburgh Report: Five Places for Healing Through Art |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/arts/design/carnegie-international-pittsburgh-art.html |access-date=2022-12-15 |issn=0362-4331}} She lives in Denver.

Early life and education

Laleh Mehran was born in 1968 in Tehran, Pahlavi Iran. Her family relocated to the United States when she was age 10, at the beginning of the Iranian Revolution in 1978.{{Cite web | title = Denver Art Museum exhibit by Laleh Mehran questions the power of faith | date = 19 July 2012 | url = http://www.denverpost.com/ci_21114422/denver-art-museum-exhibit-by-laleh-mehran-questions | publisher = | accessdate = 26 February 2016 }}

Mehran received her BFA degree in creative photography from the University of Florida in 1991; and her MFA degree in electronic time-based media from Carnegie Mellon University in 1997.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date= |title=Lalah Meharn Official Website |url=http://lalehmehran.com/ |archive-url= |archive-date= |accessdate=26 February 2016 |website= |publisher=}}{{Primary source inline|date=August 2020}}

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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.westword.com/arts/another-100-colorado-creatives-laleh-mehran-5790608|title=Another 100 Colorado Creatives: Laleh Mehran|last=Froyd|first=Susan|date=2014-06-05|work=Westword|access-date=2018-08-18}}{{Citation|last=Kamrava|first=Mehran|chapter=Emerging Iranian discourses|pages=10–43|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780511756146|doi=10.1017/cbo9780511756146.002|title=Iran's Intellectual Revolution|year=2008}} 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's work has been shown individually and collaboratively in the US 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).{{Cite web|url=https://lalehmehran.com/CV-Bio-Contact|title=CV :: Bio :: Contact|access-date=2018-08-18}}{{Primary source inline|date=August 2020}}

She previously taught at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wPNUAAAAMAAJ |title=Art Papers |date=2005 |publisher=Atlanta Art Papers, Incorporated |volume=29 |pages=19 |language=en}}