Farhang Foundation is proud to partner
with the Fowler Museum at UCLA in presenting

Amir H. Fallah: The Fallacy of Borders

The Iranian American artist’s first solo museum exhibition in Los Angeles and a homecoming to UCLA, where he earned his MFA.

The Fallacy of Borders will feature more than 25 works including large-scale paintings, sculptures, stained glass, and Beautiful/Decay magazine ephemera. The exhibition is organized around themes that thread through Fallah’s work including cultural inheritance and identity formation, diaspora and homeland, which challenge us to question and transcend boundaries and borders that separate people, cultures, geographies, and art practices. Fallah will also be debuting several new works.

The Fallacy of Borders is curated by Amy Landau, Director of Education and Interpretation at the Fowler Museum.

Amir H.Fallah. Image credit: Alan Shaffer 

About Amir Fallah

Amir Fallah (b. 1979, Tehran, Iran; lives and works in Los Angeles) came to the US as a child in the wake of the Iranian revolution. His work draws on personal history as an entry point to discuss race, representation, the body, and the memories of cultures and countries left behind. He received his BFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and his MFA at UCLA. Fallah has exhibited extensively across the US and abroad. Selected solo exhibitions include the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ; South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, SD; Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR; ICA San Diego, CA; and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland, KS. He was the founder of internationally recognized arts, design, fashion, and lifestyle publication Beautiful/Decay.

Among his many achievements, notably in 2020, Fallah was awarded the City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship and the Artadia grant. In 2019, his painting Calling On The Past received the Northern Trust Purchase Prize at EXPO Chicago. In 2015, Fallah received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. In 2009, he was chosen to participate in the 9th Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates.

Fallah’s work is in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); Jorge M. Pérez Collection, Miami; DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Greece; McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco; Nerman Museum, Kansas City; Birmingham Museum of Art, AL; 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; Los Angeles County Department of Arts & Culture, CA; and Salsali Private Museum, Dubai, UAE.