2024-2025 virtual Cohort
Fall 2024 | Winter 2025 | Spring 2025
Tuesdays via Zoom
With Canopy Mentor
Amir H. Fallah
Artist
Based in Los Angeles
Cohort Artists
The artists featured below were accepted to the 2024-2025 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).
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.
Tofer Chin
Guest Artist
Cammie Staros
Guest Artist
Kris Rac
Art History Speaker
Eric Hibit
Color Theory Lecture
Asad Faulwell
Artist Lecture + Visiting Critic
Alison Blickle
Artist Lecture + Visiting Critic
Amanda Nedham
Guest Writing Editor
Rebecca Ibel
Guest Curator
Hallie Ringle
Guest Curator
Will Hutnick
Professional Practices Speaker
Adrienne Elise Tarver
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.
Cohort Exhibition
Each Canopy Cohort presents a culminating pop-up group exhibition.
The Weight of What Was
Canopy Studio, 508 W. 26th St. #6E
June 26-28, 2025
Featuring the works of A/BEL, Adia Jamille, Ashley Beerdat, Emily Mackin, Huma Aatifi, Jennifer Chadwick, Jessica Alazraki, Jose Urbina, Madeline Winter, and Rain Worthington.
The Weight of What Was is a pop-up group exhibition marking the end of the 2024–2025 Canopy Program. Over the past year, ten artists worked closely with their mentor, Amir H. Fallah, meeting regularly to share work, offer critique, and think together about what it means to make art in our current socio-political climate.
The exhibition gathers a wide range of practices, from painting to sculpture and installation, but a shared sense of urgency runs throughout. These artists have been asking hard questions: What does it mean to make work in a time of upheaval? How do we hold space for grief, resistance, memory, and joy all at once? How do we stay present with the weight of what we’ve inherited, and still find ways to move forward?
What emerged from the program wasn’t just new work, but a community of care and conversation. This exhibition is a record of that time together: a space of searching, making, unmaking, and remaking. In a world that often feels unsteady, The Weight of What Was reflects a year spent in dialogue; not just about art, but about survival, accountability, and connection.
The Weight of What Was is a pop-up group exhibition marking the end of the 2024–2025 Canopy Program. Over the past year, ten artists worked closely with their mentor, Amir H. Fallah, meeting regularly to share work, offer critique, and think together about what it means to make art in our current socio-political climate.
The exhibition gathers a wide range of practices, from painting to sculpture and installation, but a shared sense of urgency runs throughout. These artists have been asking hard questions: What does it mean to make work in a time of upheaval? How do we hold space for grief, resistance, memory, and joy all at once? How do we stay present with the weight of what we’ve inherited, and still find ways to move forward?
What emerged from the program wasn’t just new work, but a community of care and conversation. This exhibition is a record of that time together: a space of searching, making, unmaking, and remaking. In a world that often feels unsteady, The Weight of What Was reflects a year spent in dialogue; not just about art, but about survival, accountability, and connection.
