Amir H. Fallah, M.F.A. '05

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An exhibition by artist Amir H. Fallah, M.F.A. '05, "The Fallacy of Borders" opened at UCLA's Fowler museum on Jan. 29 and runs through May 14.

Fallah received his B.F.A. in fine art and painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art and his M.F.A. in painting at UCLA. He has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions across the United States and abroad. In 2009, the artist was chosen to participate in the 9th Sharjah Biennial and in 2015 he received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. In 2019, Fallah’s painting Calling on The Past received the Northern Trust Purchase Prize at EXPO Chicago. Fallah was awarded the COLA Individual Artist Fellowship and the Artadia grant in 2020. The artist is in the permanent collection of such national and international museums as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA; the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, Miami; Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece; and Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao, China.

Read more in this UCLA Newsroom article.