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/

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025	“SYMBIOTIC EXHIBITION” Sogetsu Plaza, Tokyo, Japan
2024	Tomio Koyama Gallery Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
2023	“We Are Dust and Shadow” Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
2018	“Hammer Projects: Sam Falls" Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporaneo di Trento e Rovereto, Trento, Italy
2016	Zabludowicz Collection, London, United Kingdom and Sarvisalo, Finland
2015	The Kitchen, New York, NY Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, Italy
2014	Public Art Fund, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025	“KEIJI ITO / SAM FALLS / ERIN FALLS / YUTAKA NOZAWA / YASUAKI HAMADA” GALERIE LULLA, Los Angeles, CA
2024	“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
2022	“WORLD CLASSROOM: Contemporary Art through School Subjects” Mori Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2018	"The Ripple Effect," Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO 21st Sydney Biennial, Carriageworks, Australia
2015	“Apparition: Frottages and Rubbings from 1895 to Now” Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2013	“A Different Kind of Order: The ICP Triennial” International Center of Photography, New York, NY

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