Sam Falls was born 1984 in San Diego, CA.
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
EDUCATION
2007
BA, Studio Art, Reed College, Portland, OR
2010
MFA, ICP-Bard, New York, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
Sam Falls Burlington City Arts, Vermont
Topanga Karma Amagansett, NY
Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
Balice Hertling, París
LAXART, Los Angeles
Ribordy Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland
2012
Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
Printed Matter Incn, New York, NY
American Contemporary, New York, NY
China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA
M+B, Los Angeles, CA
Luce Gallery, Torino, Italy
2011
Sam Falls, West Street Gallery, New York, NY
Everything Keeps Being Nothing, Higher Pictures, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014
A Survey of Young LA Art, DEPART Foundation and the American Academy of Rome, Italy
Tuileries 2013, Jardin des Tuileries, FIAC, France
2013
ANAMERICANA, DEPART Foundation, Rome, Italy
Noa Noa, Metro Pictures, New York
Hannah Hoffman Gallery, LA
Good Luck and Safe Journey, T293, Rome
Sean Kelly Gallery, NY
Marlborough Gallery
A Different Kind of Order, The International Center Phtography Triennial, New York
LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Nicole Klagsburn, New York, NY
International Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA
Brand New Gallery, Milano, Italy
Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, CA
11 Rivington, New York, NY
Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Modern Collections, London, UK
Twig Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Pedro Cera Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
2011
Death Valley, Cleopatra’s, Brooklyn, NY
Somewhere to Go, OHWOW, Los Angeles, CA
Painted Pictures, Curated by Arthur Ou, Blackston Gallery, New York, NY
Wax Apple, Bodega, Philadelphia, PA
2010
Sam Falls / Daniel Turner, Pauline’s, Brooklyn, NY
Capricious Select, Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden
New Photography, curated by Lesley Martin, Woodstock Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY
50 Artists Photograph the Future, curated by Dean Daderko, Higher Pictures, New York, NY
LOOKbetween, Deep Rock, VA
Wishes : A Black and White Salon, Lower East Side Gallery, New York, NY
SRAUNUS, Vilinus, Lithuania
New Genre Pictures, Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC
Magazine Group Show, 107 Shaw Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2009
Blind Spot, X-Initiative, New York, NY
STREAM Los Angeles, Space 15 Twenty, Los Angeles, CA
STREAM, Penthouse Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Night Vision, Vancouver, BC
Capricious Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Capricious Presents : Tender Love and Care, Box Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden
Gallery 95, New York, NY
2008
Essentiality, Lana Santorelli Gallery, New York, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2013
Zhong, Fan. ‘The New Guard’, W Magazine (April)
Elmquist, Rebecca. ‘The Artists Who Believes in Poetry’ Muse Magazine, no.33
2012
Phillips, Christopher. ‘Sam Falls - Under the Big Bright Sun’ Art in America, November, 2012
Moshakis, Alex. “Sam Falls’s ‘Problems with Decomposition’” The New York Times, December 4,
2012
Tavecchia, Elena. ‘Sam Fallsat American Contemporary’, Mousse Magazine, Spring 2012
Mizota, Sharon. ‘Sam Falls at China Art Objects’, Los Angeles Times, February 28, 2012
‘Top 30 under 30: Art & Design’. Forbes, January 16, 2012
2011
Martin, Lesley. ‘Sam Falls’, Aperture, Winter 2011
Kunitz, Daniel. ‘Sam Falls’, Modern Painters, Winter 2011
Wiley, Chris. “Ryan Trecartin, William de Kooning, New York Solo Photo Shows,” ARTFORUM, December 2011.
Wiley, Chris. Depth of Focus, FRIEZE, Issue 43, November – December 2011
Aletti, Vince. The New Yorker : 21 March 2011
Smith, Roberta. ‘Sam Falls : ‘Everything Keeps Being Nothing.’ New
York Times : 18 March
Robertson, Rebecca. ‘Building Pictures.’ ARTnews March 2011 : 76-83.
2010
Saltz, Jerry. ‘What Comes After X’. New York Times Magazine 2 August, 2010 : 71
‘Editor’s Choice: New Artists and Curators’. Harper’s Bazaar : November 2010
PUBLICATIONS
2013
Studio Space Print Time, Printer Matter
2012
Life Size, Karma
Problems with Decomposition, Mörel Books
Studio Portrait, Printed Matter
Light Over Time, Gottlund Verlag
2011
Val Verde, Karma
Paint Paper Palms, Dashwood Books
There Are No More Stupid Poets / There Are No More Poets Stupid, Bodega Books
Visible Library, Lay Flat
2010
Light Work, Gottlund Verlag
Dans la Chambre Verte, JSBJ
Spring Allusions, self publishedSense of Ending, self published
2009
Color Dying Light, Hassla Books
Winter Chapel, self published
Fall Saddles, self published
Summer Script, self published
Return to the Alps, self published
A Finality, self published
2008
No Elegy, self published
Dining Table, self published
Sandpaper|Blackmagic, self published
AWARDS
2010
Tierney Fellowship
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Statoil Collection, Norway
Bidwell Projects, Cleveland, Ohio
International Center of Photography, New York