AMIR H. FALLAH
Photo by Joshua K Flynn.
ABOUT THE Artist
Amir H. Fallah (b. 1979, Tehran, Iran; lives and works in Los Angeles) received his BFA in Fine Art & Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art and his MFA in Painting from UCLA. His work has been widely exhibited in the U.S. and internationally, with solo shows at the Fowler Museum (Los Angeles), Museum of Contemporary Art (Tucson), South Dakota Art Museum, Schneider Museum of Art, San Diego ICA, and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art.
Fallah is the founder and former creative director of the art and design publication Beautiful/Decay (1996–2013). He has received numerous honors, including the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant (2015), the Northern Trust Purchase Prize at EXPO Chicago (2019), the COLA Individual Artist Fellowship (2020), and an Artadia Award (2020).
His work is held in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the de Young Museum (San Francisco), the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Jorge M. Pérez Collection (Miami), the Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art (Athens), the Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art (China), the Smart Museum of Art (Chicago), the Crocker Art Museum (California), and many others.
Amir Fallah presenting his VASD Program artist talk in RMCAD’s Mary Harris Auditorium on February 13, 2026. Photo by Jim Darling.
RMCAD + PUBLIC EVENTS
Artist TALK + Exhibition reception
Thursday, NOVEMBER 13, 2025
In his VASD Program Artist Talk, Amir H. Fallah discussed the evolution of his work from the last decade to today. The talk accompanies his first solo exhibition in Colorado, Lexicon, at RMCAD's Rotunda Gallery. Both are part of the college's Recontextualize series, which explores how context shapes the understanding of art for both the creator and audience. For his talk, Amir recontextualized his work in real time – revisiting past and recent works through the lens of the present moment, place, culture, and sociopolitical circumstances.
Amir H. Fallah with his exhibition, Lexicon, in RMCAD’s Rotunda Gallery. Photo by Jim Darling.
Lexicon
Thursday, NOVEMBER 13, 2025 - Friday, February 13, 2026
Rotunda Gallery, RMCAD campus
Born in Tehran, Iran, and based in Los Angeles, Amir H. Fallah draws on diverse geopolitical, art historical, and cultural symbols to inform his visual language. His saturated paintings depict figures, plants, pop culture, textiles, personal narratives, and parables in layered, relational compositions that express the multifaceted immigrant experience, the fluidity of identity, belonging and displacement, the impacts of war and political dissent, and the navigation across cultures.
Lexicon responds to the Rotunda Gallery's circular architecture and its outer and inner spaces. The arrangement emphasizes Fallah's ongoing interest in identity's mutability, combined with recent investigations into chaos and control, memory and myth, the physical and psychological, conscious and subconscious, self and outside world.
Installation of Amir H. Fallah’s solo exhibition, Lexicon, in RMCAD’s Rotunda Gallery. Photo by Wes Magyar.
RMCAD Only Events
One-on-one Meetings with Amir H. Fallah
Friday, November 14, 2025
RMCAD online and on-ground students had the exciting opportunity to share their work with visiting artist Amir H. Fallah in 20-minute meetings.
STUDENT-LED Q+A SESSION
Friday, November 14, 2025
Student-Led Q&A Sessions are casual, in-person conversations open to RMCAD students, faculty, and staff. Guided by student voices, these discussions generate valuable professional advice for all students.