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Installation view from “Sam Falls” at Tomio Koyama Gallery Roppongi, Tokyo, 2024 ©Sam Falls, photo by Kenji Takahashi -
Installation view from “Sam Falls” at Tomio Koyama Gallery Roppongi, Tokyo, 2024 ©Sam Falls, photo by Kenji Takahashi -
Installation view from “Sam Falls” at Tomio Koyama Gallery Roppongi, Tokyo, 2024 ©Sam Falls, photo by Kenji Takahashi -
Installation view from “Sam Falls” at Tomio Koyama Gallery Roppongi, Tokyo, 2024 ©Sam Falls, photo by Kenji Takahashi -
Installation view from “Sam Falls” at Tomio Koyama Gallery Roppongi, Tokyo, 2024 ©Sam Falls, photo by Kenji Takahashi -
Installation view from “Sam Falls” at Tomio Koyama Gallery Roppongi, Tokyo, 2024 ©Sam Falls, photo by Kenji Takahashi -
Installation view from “Sam Falls” at Tomio Koyama Gallery Roppongi, Tokyo, 2024 ©Sam Falls, photo by Kenji Takahashi -
Installation view from “Sam Falls” at Tomio Koyama Gallery Roppongi, Tokyo, 2024 ©Sam Falls, photo by Kenji Takahashi -
Dusk 2023 Pigment on canvas 107.2 x 91.9 cm ©Sam Falls -
Hit the ground running 2023 114.7 x 107.0 cm Pigment on canvas ©Sam Falls -
Im on fire 2023 135.2 x 198.3 cm Pigment on canvas ©Sam Falls -
Sam Falls サム・フォールズ Spring Snow 2023 223.9 x 162.9 cm Pigment on canvas ©Sam Falls -
Spring, Summer, Fall 2023 Pigment on canvas 213.8 x 162.8 cm ©Sam Falls -
Summer Window 2023 Pigment on canvas 147.9 x 112.2 cm ©Sam Falls -
Deep Breath 2023 Pigment on canvas 104.7 x 81.6 cm ©Sam Falls -
Harvest Moon 2023 94.5 x 218.6 cm Pigment on canvas ©Sam Falls -
Dawn 2023 Pigment on canvas 90.7 x 198.4 cm ©Sam Falls -
Friend of the Moon 2023 h.38.7 x w.25.9 x d.5.3 cm Fujifilm FP-100C45 instant film, glazed ceramic and glass ©Sam Falls -
Sam Falls サム・フォールズ Drape the dust of this world in droplets of dew 2023 Fujifilm FP-100C45 instant film, glazed ceramic and glass 39.1 x 29.8 x 6 cm ©Sam Falls -
Installation view of “Sam Falls: We Are Dust and Shadow” at moCa Cleveland, 2024 ©Sam Falls -
Installation view of “Sam Falls: We Are Dust and Shadow” at moCa Cleveland, 2024 ©Sam Falls -
Installation view of “Sam Falls: We Are Dust and Shadow” at moCa Cleveland, 2024 ©Sam Falls -
Installation view of “Sam Falls: We Are Dust and Shadow” at moCa Cleveland, 2024 ©Sam Falls -
Installation view from “ Lines —Aligning your consciousness with the flow” at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, 2024 ©Sam Falls, Photo: Tomoki Imai, Courtesy: 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa -
Installation view from “ Lines —Aligning your consciousness with the flow” at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, 2024 ©Sam Falls, Photo: Tomoki Imai, Courtesy: 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa -
Installation view from “ Lines —Aligning your consciousness with the flow” at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, 2024 ©Sam Falls, Photo: Tomoki Imai, Courtesy: 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa -
Installation view from “ Lines —Aligning your consciousness with the flow” at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, 2024 ©Sam Falls, Photo: Tomoki Imai, Courtesy: 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa -
Midnight Rainbow 2023 Pigment on canvas 157.8 x 223.8 cm ©Sam Falls -
Petrichor 2023 Pigment on canvas 84.4 x 289.6 cm ©Sam Falls -
Night Music 2023 Glazed ceramic and glass, brass frame φ88.9 cm ©Sam Falls -
Live Forever 2023 φ90.0 cm／h.90.0 x w.90.0 x d.11.6 cm Glazed ceramic and glass, brass frame ©Sam Falls -
River Run, Riverside Park, NYC 2023 Fujifilm FP-100C45 instant film, glazed ceramic and glass h.51.8 x w. 41.5 x d.5.5 cm ©Sam Falls -
The Pool, Central Park, NYC 2023 Fujifilm FP-100C45 instant film, glazed ceramic and glass h.35.5 x w.34.5 x d.5.5 cm ©Sam Falls -
Preservation 2021 ceramic, polaroid h.26.7 x w.20.5 x d.2.7 cm ©Sam Falls -
Installation view of Sam Falls’ work at the 21rd Biennale of Sydney, 2018 ©Sam Falls -
Installation view of Sam Falls’ work at the 21rd Biennale of Sydney, 2018 ©Sam Falls -
Installation view of Sam Falls’ work at the 21rd Biennale of Sydney, 2018 ©Sam Falls -
Installation view of Sam Falls’ work at the 21rd Biennale of Sydney, 2018 ©Sam Falls -
Installation view of “Hammer Projects: Sam Falls” at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2017 ©Sam Falls -
Installation view of “Hammer Projects: Sam Falls” at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2017 ©Sam Falls -
Installation view of “Hammer Projects: Sam Falls” at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2017 ©Sam Falls
Sam Falls (born in 1984) was raised in Vermont and lives and works between Los Angeles and New York. He studied physics, linguistics, and philosophy at Reed College, receiving his BA in 2007 and his MFA from ICP-Bard in 2010.
Recent solo museum exhibitions by Sam Falls include “We Are Dust and Shadow” MoCa, Cleveland, Ohio (2023); “Nature Is the New Minimalism,” Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Trento and Rovereto, Italy (2018); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, US (2018); The Kitchen, New York (2015); and Ballroom Marfa, Texas (2015); as well as his participation in the 21st Biennale of Sydney.
Artist Website: https://samfalls.info/
Solo Exhibitions
| 2025 | Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland “Nothing Without Nature” Cookie Factory, Denver, CO “SYMBIOTIC EXHIBITION” Sogetsu Plaza, Tokyo, Japan Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland |
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| 2024 | Sam Falls, Galerie Eva Presenhuber x P21, Seoul, Korea Tomio Koyama Gallery Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2023 | Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland 303 Gallery, New York, NY Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA “We Are Dust and Shadow” Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH |
| 2022 | Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Vienna, Wien, Austria |
| 2021 | “Preservation” 303 Gallery, New York, NY Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2020 | 303 Gallery, New York, NY “Tongues in Trees, Books in Brooks, Sermons in Stones” Galerie Franco Noero, Torino, Italy |
| 2019 | Laumeier Sculpture Park, Saint Louis, MO Capri, Düsseldorf, Germany Domaine des Etangs, Massignac, France Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland “Antinori“ Chianti Classico Winery, San Casciano Val di Pesa, Florence, IT |
| 2018 | “Reconnecting with the World: About the Poetic in Elements and Materials” Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 303 Gallery, New York, NY Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland “Nature is the New Minimalism" MART, Galleria Civica, Trento, Italy |
| 2017 | “Hammer Projects: Sam Falls" Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA Eva Presenhuber, New York, NY Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy |
| 2016 | Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Kastro, Antiparos, Greece Zabludowicz Collection, London, United Kingdom and Sarvisalo, Finland |
| 2015 | The Kitchen, New York, NY “Four Seasons Forever - In Residence 2015" Franco Noero, Turin, Italy Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, Italy |
| 2014 | Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Project Series 49: Sam Falls" Pomona College Museum of Art, CA Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland Karma, New York, NY Public Art Fund, New York, NY Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK |
| 2013 | LA> Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland “Topanga" Karma, Amagansett, NY “Final Forever“ Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, CA T293, Rome, Italy Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, VT Ribordy Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland |
| 2012 | American Contemporary, New York, NY, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA Printed Matter, New York, NY Marta Cervera, Madrid, ES M+B, Los Angeles, CA, US Karma Books, New York, NY Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy |
| 2011 | West Street Gallery, New York “Everything Keeps Being Nothing" Higher Pictures, New York, NY |
Group Exhibitions
| 2025 | “SIMOSE New Collection Exhibition Part I― Sam Falls, Tomokazu Matsuyama” Shimose Art Museum, Hiroshima, Japan “Layers of Accumulated Time: Depicting the world we live in” 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan “KEIJI ITO / SAM FALLS / ERIN FALLS / YUTAKA NOZAWA / YASUAKI HAMADA” GALERIE LULLA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| 2024 | Marfa Invitational, Marfa, TX, US Art in the Park XXIII, Baur au Lac, Zurich, CH “Lines —Aligning your consciousness with the flow” 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan “ I Feel The Earth Whisper" Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany “ SCIENCE / FICTION - A non-history of Plants" MEP I Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, FR; Foto Arsenal Wien, Vienna, AT “Les Fleurs d’Yves Sain Laurent” Musée Yves Saint Laurent, Paris, FR |
| 2023 | "MELENCOLIA" Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, CH |
| 2022 | “WORLD CLASSROOM: Contemporary Art through School Subjects” Mori Museum, Tokyo, Japan “EARTHING” Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, CH |
| 2021 | Galerie Eva Presenhuber at 75 Faubourg, Paris, FR (with Shara Hughes and Jean-Marie Appriou) “A Month Away” Galerie Eve Presenhuber, Zurich, CH |
| 2020 | “Resonance” Fondation Opale, Lens, CH “Color Field” The University of Houston, TX, US “All in One” Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, CH “Where the Horizon Begins” Galerie Kraemer / Chambre a Part, Paris, FR “Alien Landscape” 303 Gallery, NY, US |
| 2019 | “La Lumière des Mondes” Domain des Etangs, Massignac, FR “I will be Dead” König London, London, UK “En Plein Air” The High Line, New York, NY, US Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, AR, US “35 Years” 303 Gallery, New York, NY, US “Back to the Future, Mai Mano House, Budapest, HU Unlimited | Art Basel, Basel, CH |
| 2018 | “The Ripple Effect" Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO Sculpture Garden Biennale, Parc des Eaux-Vives Genève, Genève, CH “You Are Here: Light, Color, and Sound Experiences" North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, US “Back to the Future” Foam, Photography Museum Amsterdam, NL (traveling to C/O Berlin, DE) “Jay DeFeo: The Ripple Effect” Le Consortium, Dijon, FR (traveling to the Aspen Art Museum, US) 21st Sydney Biennial, Carriageworks, Australia |
| 2017 | “The Sun Placed In The Abyss” CMOA, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, US “Concrete Island” VENUS, Los Angeles, CA, US ICA Boston, Boston, MA, US |
| 2016 | “Wasteland” Mona Bismark American Center, Paris, FR “Another Minimalism” Art after California Light and Space, Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, UK |
| 2015 | “Another Minimalism: Art after California Light and Space” Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK “Apparition: Frottages and Rubbings from 1895 to Now” Hammer Museum, co-organised by the Menil Collection, Houston, Los Angeles, CA, US “Works on paper” Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, CH “WORKS BY” Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, CH |
| 2014 | “The Material Image” curated by Debra Singer, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY, US “Morning and Evening Asylum” Tanya Leighton Berlin/ Off Vendome, Dusseldorf, DE Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, IT “Ethan Cook / Sam Falls / Emanuel Röhss / Tris Vonna-Michell” T293-in-residence, Sadie Coles, London, UK Flash Art, New York, NY, US “SUPERPOSITION: Equilibrium & Engagement” Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, AU “Per_Forming a collection #1” Madre Museum, Naples, IT |
| 2013 | Metro Pictures, New York, NY, US Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US T293, Naples, IT Galerie Balice Hertling, New York, NY, US Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY, US Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, US “A Different Kind of Order: The ICP Triennial” International Center of Photography, New York, NY, US “Anamericana” Depart Foundation, American Academy in Rome, Rome, IT “SQUAT BEIRUT” in collaboration with Balice Hertling and Nilufar Gallery at Metropolitan Art Society (MAS) Beirut, LB Balice Hertling, Paris, FR |
| 2012 | Nicole Klagsburn, New York, NY, US Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, CA, US International Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA, US 11 Rivington, New York, NY, US Modern Collections, London, UK Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam, NL Pedro Cera Gallery, Lisbon, PT “Sam Falls / N. Dash” Twig Gallery, Brussels, BE |
| 2011 | Karma, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO, US “Sam Falls / Nick Van Woert” Death Valley, Cleopatra's, Brooklyn, NY, US “Painted Pictures” Curated by Arthur Ou, Blackston Gallery, New York, NY, US “Somewhere to Go” OHWOW, Los Angeles, CA, US Wax Apple” Bodega, Philadelphia, PA, US M+B Gallery, Curated by Sam Falls and Matt Moravec, Los Angeles, CA, US “High Desert Test Sites” Curated by Andrea Zittel, Joshua Tree, CA, US |
| 2010 | “Sam Falls / Daniel Turner” Pauline's, Brooklyn, NY, US “50 Artists curated by Dean Daderko” Higher Pictures, New York, NY, US “Capricious Select” Fotografiska, Stockholm, SE SRAUNUS, Villinus, LT “New Genre Pictures” Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC, US “Magazine Group Show” 107 Shaw Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, CA “New Photography” Woodstock Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY, US “LOOKbetween” Deep Rock, MS, US Lower East Side Gallery, New York, NY, US |
Public Collections
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, Italy
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Palm Springs Art Museum, CA
Orange County Museum of Art, CA
SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen, The Schaufler Foundation, Germany
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
【Now On View】 Group Exhibition “SIMOSE New Collection Exhibition Part I― Sam Falls, Tomokazu Matsuyama” Shimose Art Museum, Hiroshima, Japan
【Now On View】 Solo Exhibition “Sam Falls” Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Waldmannstrasse, Zurich, Switzerland
Solo Exhibition “Nothing Without Nature” Cookie Factory, Denver, CO
Group Exhibition “Layers of Accumulated Time: Depicting the world we live in” 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
Group Exhibition “KEIJI ITO / SAM FALLS / ERIN FALLS / YUTAKA NOZAWA / YASUAKI HAMADA” GALERIE LULLA, 620 Imperial Street, CA
Solo Exhibition “SYMBIOTIC EXHIBITION” Sogetsu Plaza, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibition “Lines -Aligning your consciousness with the flow” 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
Solo Exhibition “We Are Dust and Shadow” Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
“21st Biennale of Sydney” Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia