Amir H. Fallah

Amir H. Fallah was born in Tehran, Iran in 1979. He received his BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2001 and his MFA from University of California Los Angeles in 2005. Fallah’s artistic oeuvre incorporates painting, photography, sculpture, and installation though the artist considers himself primarily a painter. His works are profoundly intimate, inspired by youthful memories, cultural traditions and his experience as an immigrant.

Fallah skillfully weaves together themes as disparate as punk rock, plant-life and Persian miniature paintings. His background in graffiti art prompts his method of visual layering and his references to western art history are recontextualized when introduced to the pattern-based visual narratives of Islamic art. Fallah’s understanding of both eastern and western art history provides a platform to investigate themes such as identity, displacement and popular culture.

Fallah has held solo exhibitions internationally, including at the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design, Denver, CO, USA; Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA; San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA, USA; MOCA Tucson, Tucson, AZ, USA; South Dakota Museum Of Art, Brookings, SD, USA; Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR, USA; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland, MO, USA; 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, California, USA, and The Third Line, Dubai, UAE.

Fallah’s work has been featured in group exhibitions at numerous institutions, including the Middle East Institute, Washington D.C., USA; Orlando Museum Of Art, Orlando, NY, USA; Sharjah Museum of Art, Sharjah, UAE; Schneider Museum of Art, Oregon, USA; San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA, USA; 56th La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy; Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA; Lancaster Museum of Art and History, CA, USA; Salsali Private Museum, Dubai, UAE; 9^th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, UAE, as well as at galleries including The Third Line, Dubai, UAE, Dio Horia Gallery, Athens, Greece, and JOYCE Gallery, Hong Kong.

Fallah received the California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists; COLA Artist Fellowship; Northern Trust Purchase Prize at EXPO Chicago and won The LA County Arts Commission Civic Art Program; the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant in 2015.

His works are part of several private and public collections, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Birmingham Museum of Art; Cerritos College Public Art Collection; ICA Miami; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art; the Salsali Private Museum Collection; Microsoft Art Collection; and Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.

Fallah lives and works in California, USA.