Elham Puriya Mehr
Curator
Biography
Elham Puriya Mehr is an artist, curator, scholar and writer based in Vancouver, BC. She holds a BA and MA from the University of Art in Tehran, a PhD in Art Research from Alzahra University, and completed a Research Fellowship in Advanced Practice at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research explores the potential of social-space atmospheres to generate alternative forms of learning and knowledge-making. She has taught at Sooreh University, the University of Art in Tehran and Emily Carr University of Art + Design, was a Research Associate with the freethought collective (2021–2022), and co-curated Unfolding Desire at Trieste Contemporanea (2025). (Source: 421 Arts Campus)