Laleh Mehran

2023-2025 Resource Artist

She/Her

At RedLine, an integral element of our Artist-in-Residency program is to host Resource Artists throughout the two-year residency. 

Resource Artists generally have more professional experience and are further established in their career. The role of a Resource Artist is to share their expertise and offer professional guidance to artist residents. 

Laleh Mehran was born in Iran and relocated with her family to the United States at the start of the Iranian Islamic Revolution. She creates elaborate environments in digital and physical spaces focused on complex intersections between politics, religion, and science.

In a political climate in which certain views are increasingly suspect and can have extreme consequences, Mehran’s artworks are invitations to think again about each of these paradigms and the profound connections that bind them.

Mehran received her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University. Her 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), Mattress Factory Museum (Pennsylvania), Carnegie Museum of Art (Pennsylvania), Vanderbilt University (Tennessee), 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), the Pittsburgh Biennial (Pennsylvania), and the Daniels & Fisher Clock Tower (Colorado).

She has received awards including the Creative Capital Foundation Grant (subRosa collective), Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, West Virginia Commission on the Arts, and the Cultural Program for Enhancing Mutual Understanding from the American Embassy in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Mehran is a Professor of Emergent Digital Practices at the University of Denver.