Amir H. Fallah’s BIO

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.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

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. 

Included in the exhibition are large-scale paintings of draped figures holding ancient weapons that evoke the history of portraiture as a show of power and the ambiguity of identity. The inner walls are hung with intimate, mixed media works on paper that merge recurring graphic motifs—figures, flora, architecture, and artifacts—with a psychological landscape of Rorschach-like inkblots. This mingling of dramatic scale shifts and referential imagery within the gallery’s concentric circles oscillates between imposition and invitation. Fallah's work constructs a visual language—a lexicon—through which meaning is felt rather than prescribed and dualism is cyclical rather than polarized.

EXHIBITION RUN

• November 13 - February 13, 2026

OPENING RECEPTION

• Thursday November 13, 2026 4 - 7 PM

GALLERY HOURS

• Monday through Friday, 11 am - 4 pm.

The Rotunda Gallery is located on RMCAD’s campus at 1600 Pierce Street, Denver, CO 80214.

November 13 - February 13, 2026

ABOUT THE ROTUNDA GALLERY

The Rotunda Gallery focuses on exhibitions featuring work by the RMCAD faculty, alumni, and local artists and designers in one of the college’s most unique buildings.