2025-2026 virtual Cohort
Fall 2025 | Winter 2026 | Spring 2026
Tuesdays via Zoom
With Canopy Mentor
Amir H. Fallah
Artist
Based in Los Angeles
Cohort Artists
The artists featured below were accepted to the 2025-2026 year of The Canopy Program. Together, with the guidance of their Faculty Mentor, Amir H. Fallah, the artists will develop their studio practice through critiques, Artist Talks + Q&As, seminars, and workshops. The Canopy Program is a year-long commitment, this Cohort will meet via Zoom for three consecutive semesters. Their experience will culminate with a pop-up Group Show in Chelsea (NYC).
Cohort Exhibition
Each Canopy Cohort presents a culminating pop-up group exhibition.
This cohort will present their exhibition at The Canopy Studio in Chelsea, June 18 - 20, 2026. Stay tuned for more details! In the meantime, view
past Crit Club and Canopy exhibitions.
Guest Speakers + Visiting Critics
Each semester, Amir H. Fallah's Cohort recieved Artist Talks, Lectures, Workshops
and Visiting Critiques from an esteemed roster of Guest Artists + Speakers.
Ryan Schneider
Guest Artist
Caroline Kent
Guest Artist
Eric Hibit
Color Theory Lecture
Jennifer Coates
Art History Lecture
Wendell Gladstone
Artist Lecture + Visiting Critic
Vickie Vainionpää
Artist Lecture + Visiting Critic
Adrienne Elise Tarver
Materials Workshop
Andrew Prayzner
Techincal Drawing Workshop
Amanda Nedham
Artist Statement Edits
Kris Lewis
Visiting Critic
Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, WA; photo credit Todd Westphal
Rachel Winter
Visiting Critic
Assistant Curator at MSU Broad
Will Hutnick
Professional Practices Speaker
Photo Credit: Walker Esner
Amir H. Fallah
Professional Practices Speaker
Canopy Mentor Amir H. Fallah
Amir H. Fallah 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; Museum of Contemporary Art in Tucson; South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings SD; Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland OR; San Diego ICA; and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland KS. In 2009, the artist 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, Fallah 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 has works in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama; Jorge M. Pérez Collection, Miami; Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo; Deste Foundation For Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece; Xiao Museum Of Contemporary Art, Rizhao, China; 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, NY; Cerritos College Public Art Collection, CA; Los Angeles County Department of Arts & Culture, CA; and Salsali Private Museum, Dubai, UAE.
