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.

The artist talk and exhibition reception is free and open to the public. The talk is offered both in-person on the RMCAD campus and livestreamed. Free refreshments are provided for in person guests.

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.