Laleh Khorramian (born 1974) is an Iranian-born American multidisciplinary visual artist. She works in printmaking, collage, video art and animation, and as a clothing designer. Khorramian is based in

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, where she also runs her clothing compan
LALOON
Studios.

Biography

Laleh Khorramian was born in 1974 in

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

. She was raised in

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. Khorramian studied at the

Rhode Island School of Design The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD , pronounced "Riz-D") is a private art and design school in Providence, Rhode Island. The school was founded as a coeducational institution in 1877 by Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf, who sought to increase the ...

; followed by study at the

School of the Art Institute of Chicago The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is a private art school associated with the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) in Chicago, Illinois. Tracing its history to an art students' cooperative founded in 1866, which grew into the museum and ...

where she earned a BFA degree in 1997. She earned her MFA degree in 2004, from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

, School of Visual Arts.

Animation Animation is a method by which image, still figures are manipulated to appear as Motion picture, moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent cel, celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited ...

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and found footage supplements use of traditional artistic media in her practice, like collage, mono-typing and drawing. In a vacillating process between them, Khorramian integrates fiction with spectacle and theatre constructions to explore the discarded and chance outcomes as a creative strategy. Khorramian is a recipient of a

Pollock-Krasner Foundation The Pollock-Krasner Foundation was established in 1985 for the purpose of providing financial assistance to individual working artists of established ability. It was established at the bequest of Lee Krasner, who was an American abstract expression ...

Grant Pollock-Krasner Foundation Artists and the Gottlieb Foundation Grant.

Filmography

* SOPHIE AND GOYA, 2004, 10:54 min, Color w/ sound * CHOPPERLADY, 2005, 9:35 min, Color w/ sound * I WITHOUT END, 2008, 6:45 min, Color w/ sound * I WITHOUT END… MEANWHILE, 2008, 4:20 min, Color w/ sound * LIUTO GOLIS, 2010, 5:36 min, Color w/ sound * WATER PANICS IN THE SEA, 2011, 12:45 min, Color w/ sound * SKIN, 2011, 43:37 min, Color/silent

References

External links

"Swirl World" - The Village Voice - Jerry Saltz

"Worlds Within Worlds" - New York Foundation for the Arts - Fionn Meade
(registration required)
"I Without End"- ArtsAsiaPacific Magazine - Murtaza Vali
{{DEFAULTSORT:Khorramian, Laleh Living people American artists Columbia University School of the Arts alumni Rhode Island School of Design alumni School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni Iranian emigrants to the United States Artists from New York (state) Artists from Orlando, Florida American artists of Iranian descent 1974 births