Category: Amir Fallah

May 09, 2023 Artists, Events, Press

Artist Amir H. Fallah’s Mesmerizing Portraits

  Artist Amir H. Fallah’s Mesmerizing Portraits STUDIO  MAY 9, 2023  ANNA CLAIRE MAUNEY   A Distorted Reality is Now A Necessity To Be Free, 2019. Acrylic on canvas. 15 x 7 in.   When asked what gets him excited to make something new, contemporary artist Amir H. Fallah says simply, “I’m always excited.” Based in LA, Fallah makes detailed, collage-esque paintings that have been displayed in exhibitions around the world. His work is featured in private collections in Chicago and Kansas City, in the Microsoft…Read More

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March 24, 2023 Artists, Events, Press

Amir H. Fallah interviewed by the New York Times

Amir H. Fallah Feels the Pull of His Iranian Origins   Mr. Fallah was 4 when he left Iran after its revolution. Now, he’s using his art to support the recent uprising there.   Amir H. Fallah’s painting, “I Want To Live, To Cry, To Survive, To Love, To Die.” It is one of the works he is showing at Art Basel Hong Kong.Credit…The artist and Denny Gallery   By Farah Nayeri March 22, 2023      Amir H. Fallah was…Read More


February 28, 2023 Artists, Events, Press

Amir H. Fallah: The Fallacy of Borders at the Fowler

‘Amir H. Fallah: The Fallacy of Borders’ at the Fowler   Amir H. Fallah, “Silent Sounds,” 2021-22; stained and fused glass, custom LED panel, aluminum frame. (Amir H. Fallah / Dio Horia Gallery)   In Amir H. Fallah’s first museum exhibition in Los Angeles, expect to get caught up in the artist’s maximalist paintings and stained glass works. Fallah is known for making “alternative” portraits — they don’t fixate on likeness but rather on the objects, textures and moods that…Read More


February 18, 2023 Artists, Events, Press

Amir H. Fallah: “The Fallacy of Borders” Highlights Iranian-American Experiences at Fowler Museum

Gallery: “The Fallacy of Borders” highlights Iranian-American experiences at Fowler Museum By Ethan Manafi     Feb. 18, 2023   The Fowler Museum at UCLA is displaying “The Fallacy of Borders” by Amir H. Fallah, an Iranian-born artist working in Los Angeles.     Six pieces are shown against the dark gray walls of the Fowler. More than 25 pieces of Fallah’s work are on display at this exhibition.     Fallah stands in front of one of his pieces. Fallah…Read More

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February 15, 2023 Artists, Events, Press

The Best Shows to See in Los Angeles during Frieze

The Best Shows to See in Los Angeles during Frieze BY ARMANDO PULIDO IN CRITIC’S GUIDES , EXHIBITION REVIEWS | 15 FEB 23   Amir H. Fallah Fowler Museum at UCLA 29 January – 14 May   Amir H. Fallah, Protector 1, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 1.8 × 1.2 m. Courtesy: the artist and Ginsberg Family Collection   Amir H. Fallah turns western portraiture on its head in his first solo Los Angeles museum exhibition. His striking subjects are rendered in vibrant orange skin tones, subtly…Read More

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February 14, 2023 Art Fairs, Artists, Events, Press

Art Basel Hong Kong 2023: Tatler’s guide to the artists and works to look out for

Art Basel Hong Kong 2023: Tatler’s guide to the artists and works to look out for By Aaina Bhargava.  Feb 14, 2023   From the humorous to the grotesque, here is everything you should look out for at the city’s biggest art fair in March Art Basel Hong Kong is back in its biggest iteration since 2019, and will take place from March 23 to 25, 2023, now that restrictions for travelling and social gatherings have been lifted. More than…Read More

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February 14, 2023 Artists, Events, Press

Amir H. Fallah interviewed by the Art Newspaper

‘More is more’: Iranian American artist Amir H. Fallah’s LA show takes a maximalist approach to cultural exchange Torey Akers    14 February 2023   Tehran-born artist draws on his migrant experience for new exhibition “The Fallacy of Borders” at UCLA’s Fowler Museum   The work of Amir H. Fallah, who was born in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution, reflects on his migrant experience Alan Shaffer   Los-Angeles based artist Amir H. Fallah has always taken the “more-is-more” approach to painting….Read More


February 13, 2023 Artists, Events, Press

Eight must-see exhibitions to see during Frieze Los Angeles

Eight must-see exhibitions to see during Frieze Los Angeles Torey Akers, Benjamin Sutton and Claire Voon 13 February 2023   Amir H. Fallah’s No Gods No Masters (2020), which features in the Fowler Museum’s show; the Tehran-born artist draws on the diasporic Iranian American experience Courtesy of Shulamit Nazarian   Amir H. Fallah: The Fallacy of Borders Fowler Museum, until 14 May Los-Angeles based artist Amir H. Fallah has always taken the “more-is-more” approach to painting. “I really just try to cram everything in there…Read More


January 30, 2023 Artists, Events, Press

Amir H. Fallah: The Fallacy of Borders in Hyperallergic

Your Concise Los Angeles Art Guide for February 2023 Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very Los Angeles art events this month, including Alicia Piller, Brad Phillips, Mulyana, the MexiCali Biennial, and more. Matt Stromberg     January 30, 2023   February is a big time in the Los Angeles art world, with four art fairs (Frieze, Felix, Spring Break, and the LA Art Show) coming to town later this month (not to mention Museums Free-For-All day). Galleries and museums here are…Read More


January 25, 2023 Artists, Press, Press Releases

Amir H. Fallah: The Fallacy of Borders at Fowler Museum

Amir H. Fallah: The Fallacy of Borders Image: Amir H. Fallah (b. 1979, Tehran, Iran), Protector 1, 2022; acrylic on canvas; Ginsberg Family Collection; image courtesy of the artist and Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles   January 29–May 14, 2023 The Fallacy of Borders is the first solo Los Angeles museum presentation of artist Amir H. Fallah (b. 1979, Tehran, Iran; lives and works in Los Angeles). More than 25 works on view span painting, sculpture, stained glass, and textiles, all…Read More


January 13, 2023 Artists, Press

Amir H. Fallah Shining A Spotlight On Women’s Rights Protestors In Iran

Amir H. Fallah Shining A Spotlight On Women’s Rights Protestors In Iran Chadd Scott   Jan 13, 2023   Artist’s rendering of Amir H. Fallah “Woman, Life, Freedom” neon artwork. AMIR H. FALLAH   A woman’s face. An unshrouded woman’s face in Iran and that government’s medieval response to it have launched the women’s rights and freedom protests which have swept that nation since the September 2022 arrest of 22-year-old Jina “Mahsa” Amini by Iran’s morality police. She died three days…Read More

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January 13, 2023 Artists, Press

Amir H. Fallah in Forbes

Amir H. Fallah Shining A Spotlight On Women’s Rights Protestors In Iran   Chadd Scott Jan 13, 2023   Artist’s rendering of Amir H. Fallah “Woman, Life, Freedom” neon artwork.AMIR H. FALLAH   A woman’s face. An unshrouded woman’s face in Iran and that government’s medieval response to it have launched the women’s rights and freedom protests which have swept that nation since the September 2022 arrest of 22-year-old Jina “Mahsa” Amini by Iran’s morality police. She died three days…Read More

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January 12, 2023 Artists, Events, Press

Amir H. Fallah: The Fallacy of Borders at the Fowler Museum

ART SEASON HIGHLIGHTS: 12 SHOWS TO SEE THIS WINTER AND SPRING SHANA NYS DAMBROT  JANUARY 12, 2023   January is always a great excuse to reset the big-show calendar with a fresh season, and it’s also the run-up to the new tradition of Art Week Los Angeles (don’t call it Frieze Week) in February. That will be its own weather system, and more to come on that later. In the meantime, here are 12 exhibitions — from kings of Pop…Read More

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May 17, 2022 Artists, Events, Press

‘Buying art is like meeting a new friend’: advisor Elizabeth Von Habsburg on her very personal approach to collecting

The managing director of the art appraisal and advisory firm the Winston Art Group discusses her latest buys and the best collecting advice she’s received Daniel Cassady 17 May 2022   Von Habsburg with a recent purchase: Stephen Thorpe’s A Mediation Between the Physical and Spiritual World (2022) Courtesy of Elizabeth Von Habsburg   One could be forgiven for thinking that being Austrian royalty is the most interesting thing about a person. But that is not the case with Elizabeth von Habsburg….Read More


March 23, 2022 Artists, Events, Press

Amir H. Fallah in The book “Why I Make Art”

  Introducing a fascinating compilation of interviews with artists from the archives of Sound & Vision, a podcast directed by American artist and educator Brian Alfred. Why I Make Art: Contemporary Artists’ Stories About Life and Work presents conversations recorded between 2016 and 2020—four tumultuous years in America and around the world. Why I Make Art offers readers an intimate, contemplative view from thirty remarkable creators with compelling stories, entertaining and thoughtful anecdotes, examining themes as varied as music and…Read More


August 03, 2021 Press

Fringe reviewed in The New Yorker

In the early nineteen-seventies, a group of American artists who shared an unironic love of craft, vivid color, and kitsch—rebels against the ornamentation-averse restraint of the Minimalists—became known as the Pattern and Decoration movement (a.k.a. P&D). By the mid-eighties, the initial enthusiasm, mostly in Europe, for the group’s paintings, sculptures, ceramics, and textiles had waned. Individual artists succeeded, but P&D was written off as a footnote that was slightly embarrassing. (And also threatening: it’s no coincidence that the group’s focus…Read More


July 16, 2021 Press

Fringe featured in DART: “Pattern & Decoration: Now from Then”

Ruling families of the Renaissance, such as the Medici, exerted their influence through political intrigue, war and art, as can be seen in The Met’s presentation of The Medici: Portraits & Politics 1512-1570. American high culture, a construct of large institutions, mostly white, endowed by the wealth of corporate donors, also mostly white, is undergoing a radical shift, as consumers are beginning to exert their power to press for better representation of the publics that make up that body of consumers. Above:…Read More

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