2025-2026 virtual Cohort

Fall 2025 | Winter 2026 | Spring 2026

Tuesdays via Zoom

With Canopy Mentor

Amir H. Fallah

Artist

Based in Los Angeles


Cohort Artists

The artists featured below were accepted to the 2025-2026 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).

Cohort Exhibition

Each Canopy Cohort presents a culminating pop-up group exhibition.

I Didn’t Think It Would Go Like This

Canopy Studio, 508 W. 26th St. #6E

May 18-20, 2026

I Didn’t Think It Would Go Like This is a Group Exhibition celebrating the work of 7 artists who worked together for one year with their Canopy Mentor, Amir H. Fallah, as part of the 2025-2026 Canopy Program. This group of work represents a waystation amid the unexpected twists and turns of a road trip through the creative process. As happens on a long journey, travel companions discover intimacy and domesticity while often reminiscing and revealing memory's surprises. The discomfort of closeness seeks humor to quiet the irritations of proximity and frustrations of bodily tension. While observing vast and spectacular vistas can seem tranquil, the unfamiliar also brings disorientation and the need to deepen understanding of the natural world and the spiritual. Creating together but separately for nearly a year, the artists’ intentional acts of congruence over distance have steered their work in new, sometimes confounding, but often satisfying ways.

Guest Speakers + Visiting Critics

Each semester, Amir H. Fallah's Cohort received Artist Talks, Lectures, Workshops and Visiting Critiques from an esteemed roster of Guest Artists + Speakers.

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.