Sepideh Mehraban was born in 1986 in Tehran, Iran. She currently lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa. Mehraban obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Alzahra in Tehran, Iran, in 2009, where she also obtained her Masters in Fine Arts degree in 2011. In 2012 Mehraban furthered her studies by obtaining a postgraduate diploma in Fine Arts followed by a second Masters in Visual Arts degree from Michaelis School of Fine Arts in Cape Town, South Africa. In 2022, she completed her thesis and a solo exhibition titled THIS IS NOT PROPAGANDA towards awarding a doctorate of Philosophy in Visual Arts at the University of Stellenbosch. In 2018, Mehraban notably curated a group exhibition titled Cape to Tehran: Re-imaging and re-imagining personal history in post-Apartheid South Africa and post-revolutionary Iran, at Gallery MOMO in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa. 

Selected group exhibitions include Eyes on Iran, Organized by Woman, Life, Freedom Campaign, FDR Four Freedoms Park, New York 2022-2023. Space and Place, a group exhibition at Galerie EIGEN + Art in Leipzig 2021, In Your Shadow I Masking Realities, at SMAC Gallery in Cape Town 2021, Surroundings, at Suburbia Contemporary Gallery in Florence in 2020, as well as 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London; The Female Line at SMAC Gallery in Cape Town; Unresolved Categoryat Gallery MOMO in Cape Town; The Main Complaintat Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town; Monochromeat Barnard Gallery in Cape Town; Rendezvousat SMITH Studio in Cape Town, all in 2019. Cape to Tehran at Gallery MOMO in Cape Town and Johannesburg; Close Encountersat SMITH Studio in Cape Town, both in 2018; SS17 at Gallery MOMO in Cape Town; Distill Motionat SMITH Studio in Cape Town; A Painting Today at Stevenson Gallery in Cape Town; Art Meets Camera: Closer than ever, curated by Michaela Limberis at Gallery MOMO in Cape Town, all in 2017 and Charting, curated by Andrew Lamprecht at Eclectica Contemporary Gallery in Cape Town in 2016. 

Solo exhibitions include Promise of Paradise at Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg in 2024, Give me liberty or give me death at WHATIFTHEWORLD gallery in Cape Town in 2023, THIS IS NOT PROPAGANDA, Mehraban’s graduate exhibition towards completing her Ph.D. at the University of Stellenbosch at SMAC Gallery in Stellenbosch in 2021. Until The Lions Have Their Own Historians, The History Of The Hunt Will Always Glorify The Hunter at SMITH Studio in Cape Town in 2019, and Retracing Memories, at Golestan Gallery in Tehran in 2015. 

Mehraban’s work forms part of public and private collections such as Alzahra University in Tehran, Iran; the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; Spier Arts Trust, Cape Town, South Africa; Thulamela Chambers, Johannesburg, South Africa; Norval Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa; A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa and the Luciano Benetton Collection, Italy.