Kamran Fallahpour
Biography:
Kamran Fallahpour, PhD, is a neuroscientist, sculptor, composer, and musician based in New York City. He works in various artistic media with a special focus on sculpture. His multidisciplinary background inspires him to create artwork that offers immersive, cross-modal experiences for the viewer. His most recent work, Arrival: Consciousness at the Edge of Chaos (2023), exemplifies this artistry. To accompany the large bronze sculpture, Fallahpour composed original music that extend the sculpture’s narrative into the realm of sound and invites the audience to experience the piece on multiple sensory levels.
Fallahpour’s work has been exhibited in several venues and is part of private collections across the United States and Europe.
Medium & Process
Fallahpour frequently works with plaster and applies it to steel rods and frames. This method introduces an element of spontaneity and a sense of urgency to his creative process as he must shape the piece quickly before the plaster dries. Fallahpour draws inspiration in the moment from this dynamic process and the tactile sensation of the plaster, allowing the work to organically evolve in real-time and give rise to stylized sculpted figures. Reduced to their most basic and minimal form, his sculptures convey subtle but powerful expressions that evoke depth beneath their simplicity.
Neuroscience
Fallahpour’s interest and professional training in neuroscience and psychology add an additional layer to his work as he utilizes art as a medium for exploring themes related to the fragility of human nature, resilience, stillness, transcendance, and plasticity of perception. His work also explores the boundaries between opposing forces—order and chaos, music and noise, form and formlessness—and how meaning can be found from their interplay.
Central to his artistic vision is this recursive idea of mutual transformation: the artist changes their medium to create art and in turn, the finished work changes both the artist and the viewer.
Exhibitions & Art Fairs:
Plasticity of Perception
September 8 – October 23, 2016
Opening reception:
September 15
The exhibition – Plasticity of Perception – is his first public show with Capture Gallery in NYC.
555 WEST 25th STREET GROUND FL WEST
NEW YORK, NY 10001
L’artists muses at 13 space
October 1, 2017: 1-11 pm
13 Greenpoint Ave Brooklyn, NY 11222
Statement:
“My artistic practice emerges from a lifelong fascination with transformation—how matter becomes form, how perception becomes meaning, and how moments of stillness can reveal something essential about the human experience.
Working primarily in sculpture, I am drawn to the tension between opposing forces: order and chaos, structure and spontaneity, permanence and impermanence. Many of my pieces begin with simple materials—plaster, steel, bronze—yet the creative process itself is often unpredictable. The immediacy of working with plaster requires rapid decisions and an openness to discovery. Rather than imposing a fixed outcome, I allow the material to participate in the evolution of the work, revealing forms that emerge through gesture, intuition, and chance.
My background in neuroscience has deeply influenced this approach. Both science and art seek to understand how we construct reality from incomplete information. As a neuroscientist, I study the remarkable plasticity of the human brain; as an artist, I explore the plasticity of perception itself. I am interested in the spaces between certainty and ambiguity, where the mind actively participates in creating meaning.
The human figure appears frequently in my work, often reduced to its most essential elements. These simplified forms are not portraits of specific individuals but reflections of universal human states: vulnerability, resilience, longing, contemplation, connection, and transcendence. By stripping away unnecessary detail, I hope to create space for viewers to encounter their own experiences within the work.
Increasingly, my practice has expanded beyond sculpture into multisensory experiences that combine visual form, music, and sound. I am interested in how different sensory modalities interact and how art can become a meeting place between what we see, hear, feel, and imagine. Works such as Arrival: Consciousness at the Edge of Chaos extend sculptural narratives into sound, inviting viewers to engage with the work through multiple dimensions of perception.
Ultimately, my work is an exploration of mutual transformation. The artist changes the material, the material changes the artist, and the completed work continues its journey by transforming those who encounter it. In this sense, art is not an object but a relationship—a living dialogue between form, perception, and consciousness”.
