ARTIST BIO

Sarana Mehra is a multidisciplinary artist whose work examines the relation between the body, body-politic and the cycle of disintegration and evolution in human-made systems like art, language and technology. Drawing on the imaging and stories of Eastern and Western mythologies and the artifacts of past civilizations gathering dust in our museums, Sarana uses her practice to examine mythos-histories and the “future relic”. Each piece, like the remnants of our ancestors, leaves clues and symbols but ultimately obfuscates their contemporary use and ritual. Her work posits that despite our technological advancements we remain, like our primordial forebears who left their handprints on the cave wall, desperate to be remembered yet unable to thwart decay.

Sarana Mehra is a bi-racial British-American artist living and working in Los Angeles. Her work has been shown in various art institutions in the US and Europe, most recently the Institute of Art & Olfacton (LA), Tiger Strikes Asteroid LA, Helen J Gallery (LA), Track 16 (LA), Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art (Rancho Cucamonga, CA), The Pit (LA), 00-LA, (LA), Strasse55 (Berlin), and the Every Woman Biennial (LA). Sarana gained her BFA from the University of Oxford and her MFA from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design (London). Sarana is a member of the Binder of Women (BOW) artist collective and she is a co- founder and media director of the activist group Artists 4 Democracy.