Amir H. Fallah’s graphic, exuberant figurative paintings reflect on the artist’s notion of identity, his personal Iranian-American heritage and childhood memories, and generational experiences that arise from migration, displacement, trauma and assimilation. Traces of the vocabulary and touchstones of classical Western portraiture can be found in the compositions of his paintings, which are rich with imagery and allegory. Often, Fallah’s figures hold modern objects of communication or visualisation, such as telephones and cameras, which are pertinent in their anachnronisity within the worlds Fallah creates. While the artist does not include the facial likeness of his figures, their personhood, ancestry and cultural histories are represented through these scattered, disorientated objects, and the ornate lexicon of symbols that surround them. 

The Third Line

Los Angeles

California

Venice Biennial

Venice

Tehrān

New York City

Art New York

Dubai

Art Dubaï

Shulamit Nazarian Los Angeles

Walter Maciel Gallery

San Francisco

Catharine Clark Gallery

L.A. Louver

Washington

Henry Art Gallery

Denny Dimin Gallery

Charlie James Gallery

Orlando

Orlando Museum of Art

Salsali Private Museum

Mcevoy Foundation For The Arts

Chicago

Smart Museum of Art

West Lafayette

Ringel Gallery

Amir H. Fallah

University Of California, La

Maryland

Maryland Institute College Of Art

The Greater Velocity (The Greater The Risk Of Hurt)

Venice Beach, The First & The Last Kiss