Sepideh Mehraban is an Iranian-born artist, working and living in Cape Town. Her work explores memory and landscape, looking at the overlaying and veiling of paint as a means of expressing layers of existence and experience. She was born in Tehran and obtained her BA (2009) and MA (2011) from Alzahra University (Tehran- Iran).
In 2012, Mehraban worked on and was awarded a postgraduate diploma in Fine Art at Michaelis School of Fine Art (Cape Town, South Africa) and has since also completed a second masters degree with distinction there. She has worked as a set designer and collaborated on puppeteering projects. Mehraban also has worked as a lecturer at Michaelis School of Fine Art and University of Stellenbosch. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Stellenbosch.
