Sam Falls

was born in 1984 in San Diego, California, grew up primarily in Vermont, and now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He completed his BA in studio art at Reed College in Portland, Oregon in 2007, and received his

MFA

from

ICP

-Bard in 2010. In 2010, Sam has had solo shows at Higher Pictures in New York, Capricious Space in Brooklyn, and Fotografiska in Stockholm, Sweden. Sam has many self-published titles, including

Summer Script

(2009),

Fall Saddles

(2009),

Winter Chapel

(2010),

Spring Allusions

(2010), and

A Sense of Ending

(2010). He has been published in several collections on contemporary photography, such as

Lay Flat 02: Meta

and

The Collector’s Guide to Emerging Art Photography 2

. Sam’s first monograph,

Color Dying Light

, was published by Hassla Books in 2009 and his second,

Visual Library

, will come out with

Lay Flat

in 2011. Sam continues to exhibit internationally in group shows, and has an upcoming solo show at Center 548 in New York this spring. He is a 2010 recipient of the Tierney Fellowship.