BIOGRAPHY
Born in San Diego, CA, 1984
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
2014
Sam Falls, T293, Rome, Italy
Sam Falls, Balice Hertling, Paris, France
2013
Sam Falls, American Contemporary, New York, NY
Sam Falls, Ribordy Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland
Sam Falls, T293, Naples, Italy
2012
Sam Falls, American Contemporary, New York, NY
International Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA
M+B, Los Angeles, CA
Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
2011
Sam Falls, West Street Gallery, New York, NY
Everything Keeps Being Nothing, Higher Pictures, New York, NY
2010
Capricious Select, Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden
Group Exhibitions
2013
LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
Good Luck and Safe Journey, T293, Naples, Italy
The Wall, Marlborough, New York, NY
2012
Marlborough, Madrid, Spain
Behind the Light, Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon, Portugal
Soft Op, Modern Collections, London, UK
Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
N. Dash and Sam Falls, Twig Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Group Show, West Street Gallery, New York, NY
Braman, Buren, Falls, Heilmann, Louis, Thurman, Eleven Rivington, New York, NY
Steel Life, organized by Zak Kitnick, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, CA
Vision Quest, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, NY
Sam Falls, Printed Matter Inc., New York, NY
2011
Time and Material, M+B, Los Angeles, CA
Death Valley, Cleopatra's, Brooklyn, NY
High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree, CA
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
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
Publications
2012
Life Size, Karma
Problems with Decomposition, Morel
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-published
Sense 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
Bibliography
2012
Mizota, Sharon. Art Review: Sam Falls at China Art Objects and M+B, Los Angeles Times, February 23
Russeth, Andrew. Snap Judgements-Photography Exhibits Not to Miss, The New York Observer, galleristny.com, B5, June 20
2011
Wiley, Chris. Ryan Trecartin, Willem De Kooning, New York Solo Photo Shows, ArtForum, December
Kunitz, Daniel. Sam Falls, Artists to Watch, Modern Painters, Winter, p. 63,
Martin, Leslie A. Sam Falls: Hyper Conscious, Aperture, Winter, pp. 62-67
Wiley, Chris. Depth of Focus, FRIEZE, Issue 43, November-December
Aletti, Vince. The New Yorker, March 21
Smith, Roberta. Sam Falls: Everything Keeps Being Nothing, The New York Times, March 18
Robertson, Rebecca. Building Pictures, ARTnews, March, pp. 76-83
2010
Saltz, Jerry. What Comes After X, The New York Times Magazine, August 2, p. 71
Editor's Choice: New Artists and Curator, Harper's Bazaar, November
Awards
2010
Tierney Fellowship
Museum Collections
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA