Amir H. Fallah

In 2009, the artist was chosen to participate in the 9th Sharjah Biennial. In 2015, Fallah received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. In 2019, Fallah’s painting Calling On The Past received the Northern Trust Purchase Prize at EXPO Chicago. In 2020, Fallah was awarded the COLA Individual Artist Fellowship and the Artadia grant. In addition, the artist had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, accompanied by a catalogue, and a year-long installation at the ICA San Jose.

Since 2001, Fallah has developed and completed over 20 site-specific commissioned projects, including murals for private and public spaces. He has created murals for the permanent collection of Cerritos College in Norwalk, California, the Museum of Art and History (MOAH) in Lancaster, California, and the Museum Of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Tucson, Arizona. In 2021, he created a sculptural installation in stained glass at the new headquarters of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. The installation, entitled Portals, is a stained glass work that continues his recent work with stained glass and is his largest work in the medium to date.

Amir H. Fallah (born 1979) is an Iranian-born American painter, publisher, sculptor, and installation artist. He was a founder of Beautiful/Decay magazine. He is based in Los Angeles, California.

Amir H. Fallah was born in Tehran, Iran in 1979. He received his BFA in Fine Art & Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art and his MFA in painting at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions across the United States and abroad. Selected solo exhibitions include the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tucson; South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings SD; Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland OR; San Diego ICA; and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland KS.