Mehri Danielpour was born in Teheran, Iran and immigrated to the United States with her parents, older sister and younger brother at the age of eight. Mehri was then raised and studied in New York and lived there until 1965. She then moved to Florida with her husband, Sayid, and her two children, Debbie and Richard.
Mehri with Her Majesty, Empress Farah of Iran
Since 1970, most of Mehri's sculptures have been commissioned work for portrait bust of adults and children or full-figures of children. These commissions sustained her financially through those early years and helped her to put her children through college.
