Amir H. Fallah: Two of Me
Congratulations to Amir H. Fallah for his newest public sculpture, currently on view at the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration in downtown Los Angeles.
“Two of Me” is commissioned by the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture as part of the Public Artists in Development (PAiD) Artist Council program, which was developed and delivered by Dyson Womack.
“Two of Me” is a public art installation by Amir H. Fallah that presents the body as both structure and story. The figure, assembled from a visual lexicon, spans the ancient and contemporary, the Eastern and Western, the intimate and the public. The work acts as both surface and archive of change, reflecting the immigrant experience of living between cultures. “Two of Me” holds past and present, and assimilation and inheritance, in constant tension. Botanical patterns wrapping the form function as both armor and skin. The work evokes regeneration, resilience, and interconnectedness. As the viewer moves around it, the figure shifts, revealing multiple selves coexisting at once.
Through personal references reduced to silhouettes and deconstructed into traces that merge, fracture, and recombine, “Two of Me” becomes a portrait of a body in flux. The artist examines how identity is constructed, performed, and protected, and how our experiences become embedded within us.
Amir H. Fallah (b. 1979, Tehran, Iran; Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA) received his BFA in Fine Art & Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art and his MFA in painting at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions across the United States and abroad. Selected solo exhibitions include the Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art in Tucson, AZ; South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings SD; Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland OR; San Diego ICA; and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland KS.
Fallah was the founder and creative director of art & design publication Beautiful/Decay from 1996-2013. In 2009, he was chosen to participate in the 9th Sharjah Biennial. In 2015, Fallah 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. In 2020, he was awarded the COLA Individual Artist Fellowship and the Artadia grant. In addition, the artist had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, accompanied by a catalogue, and a year-long installation at the ICA San Jose.
The artist is in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; de Young Museum, San Francisco; Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama; Jorge M. Pérez Collection, Miami; Deste Foundation For Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece; The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin; McEvoy Foundation For The Arts, San Francisco; Nerman Museum, Kansas City; SMART Museum of Art at the University of Chicago; Davis Museum, Massachusetts; The Microsoft Collection, Washington; Plattsburg State Art Museum, New York; Cerritos College Public Art Collection, California; Los Angeles County Department of Arts & Culture; Schneider Museum of Art, Oregon; Crocker Art Museum, California; Pitzer College Permanent Collection, California; Lonsford Collection at Purdue University, Indiana; Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College, North Carolina; Miguel Angel Capriles Collection, Caracas, Venezuela; Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Florida; and Salsali Private Museum, Dubai, UAE.
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