AMIR H. FALLAH

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 H. Fallah’s events and exhibition are part of RMCAD’s yearlong Recontextualize series. Learn more about the series.

RMCAD + PUBLIC EVENTS

Artist TALK + Exhibition reception

Thursday, NOVEMBER 13, 2025

6:00 pm MT | Doors open at 5:30 pm
Exhibition reception immediately following the artist talk
Mary Harris Auditorium
Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design
1600 Pierce Street, Denver, CO 80214

This event is free and open to the public and offered both in-person and livestreamed.
Free refreshments are provided in person.

In his VASD Program Artist Talk, Amir H. Fallah will discuss 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.

Amir will recontextualize his work in real time – revisiting past and recent works through the lens of the present moment, place, culture, and sociopolitical circumstances.

Lexicon

Thursday, NOVEMBER 13, 2025 - Friday, February 13, 2026

Gallery Hours: Mon - Fri 11 am - 4 pm
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.

RMCAD Only Events

One-on-one Meetings with Amir H. Fallah

Friday, November 14, 2025
Space is limited. Students must apply to participate.
Deadline to apply: Thursday, November 6, 2025
RMCAD online and on-ground students have the exciting opportunity to share their work with visiting artist Amir H. Fallah in 20-minute meetings. If selected, students get feedback on their own work from this accomplished visiting artist.

STUDENT-LED Q+A SESSION

Friday, November 14, 2025
11:45 am - 12:45 pm Mountain Time
Texas 222 and on Zoom
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.

Students! Apply to be a moderator for this event HERE!
Deadline to apply: Thursday, November 6, 2025