Laleh Mehran

Laleh Mehran (born 1968) is an Iranian-born American digital artist, and professor. She is the graduate director and a professor in emergent digital practices at the University of Denver. Mehran is known for her interactive digital installation art. She lives in Denver.

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.

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,

She previously taught at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia.