Amir H. Fallah 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; San Diego Art Museum, Brookings SD; Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland OR; San Diego Art Institute; and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland KS.
He’s in the permanent collection of the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami; McEvoy Foundation For The Arts, San Francisco; Nerman Museum, Kansas City; SMART Museum of Art at the University of Chicago; Davis Museum, Massachusetts; The Microsoft Collection, Washington; Plattsburg State Art Museum, NY; Cerritos College Public Art Collection, CA; and Salsali Private Museum, Dubai, UAE.
Public art commission awards include the Los Angeles Arts Comission; the Baik Art Mural Project, Los Angeles; Pow Wow Antelope Valley, Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA; the MOCA Mural Program, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson; and the Cerritos College Public Commission, Lancaster, CA.
In 2009, he was chosen to participate in the 9th Sharjah Biennial. In 2015, Amir received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. In 2019, his painting Calling On The Past received the Northern Trust Purchase Prize at EXPO Chicago. In 2020, he was awarded the COLA Individual Artist Fellowship and the Artadia grant. He has a current show at Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles that’s up through October.