EDUCATION

2012 Master of Landscape Architecture, Rhode Island School of Design. Providence, RI

2006 Bachelor of Arts, Natural Sciences, New College of Florida. Sarasota, FL

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

2026 Artistic Merit Scholarship, Pilchuck Glass School. Seattle, Washington

2025 Support for Artists, Individual Grant. Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs, Houston, Texas

2024 Invited Artist in Residence. Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts. Edgecomb, Maine

2021 Individual Artist Grant, Houston Arts Alliance, Houston, Texas

2019 Selected Artist in Residence. Mauser Foundation, Costa Rica

2018 Play Everywhere Project Grant, Kaboom Foundation, Washington DC

2018 Let Creativity Happen! Grant, Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs, Houston, Texas

2016 Selected Artist in Residence, Sojourn Studios. Houston, Texas

2016 Winning Competition Entry, Bastrop Culture Walk, Art in Public Places, Bastrop, Texas

2015 Emerging Artist Grant, Houston Arts Alliance. Houston, Texas

2012 American Society of Landscape Architects Graduate Honor Award. Washington, DC

2011 The Dan Tuttle Endowed Scholarship Award for Design Excellence, Rhode Island School of Design

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SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2025 Verdant Laboratory. Solo Show. Architecture Center. Houston, Tx

2019 The Deeper the Blue Becomes. Solo Show. Dillon Kyle, Houston, Texas

2018 Grounding. Solo Show. M Architects Gallery, Houston, Texas

2017 Selected Artist. Two Person Show, Joybird Gallery, Houston, Texas

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026 Surreal Times. Glass Sculptures. Ghost Pepper Gallery. Austin, Tx

2024 Lending Library Auction. Curated by Piper Faust. Lanwndale Art & Performance. Houston, Tx

2023 Olio. Ceramics Group Show. Front Gallery. Sharon Engelstein, Curator. Houston, Tx

2023 Flux. Group Show. Gallery 100. winner Best Sculpture Award. Sara Darro, Curator. Houston, Tx

2023 Small Works. Group Show. Curated by Stephanie Jacinto, Strata Gallery. Santa Fe, New Mexico

2023 Skies. Group Show. Curated by Zoe Spiliotis, La Mecha Contemporary Gallery. El Paso, Texas

2023 Fauna Y/O Flora. Group Show. Carlotta Petrina Cultural Center. Brownsville, Texas

2023 Border Run. Texas Art Exchange. Group Show. Mark Nelson, Curator. Brownsville Museum of Fine Art. Brownsville, Texas

2022 Push. Clay Houston Contemporary Ceramic Installation. Curated by Matt Manalo. Alta Arts. Gulfton, Texas

2022 Lending Library. The Ion. Curated by Piper Faust for Lawndale Center for Art & Performance. Houston, Texas

2021 The Big Show. Group Show. Curated by Cecilia Fejardo-Hill. Lawndale Center for Art & Performance. Houston, Texas

2020 Kaleidescope. Group Show. Sabine Street Gallery. Houston, Texas

2019 Natural Abstraction. Group Show. Understory’s Public Atrium. Houston, Texas

2016 Monsoon Season, Group Show, Sojourn Studios. Houston, Texas

2015 Future Clouds. Group Show, Muir Fine Art Gallery. Houston, Texas

2015 What ought to be: Envisioning the Impossible. Group Show, Box13 Gallery. Houston, Texas

2014 Expand Hybrid Drawing Group Show. BEB Gallery. Providence, Rhode Island

2012 Dig Deep, RISD Graduate Show, Rhode Island Convention Center. Providence, Rhode Island

TEACHING & INVITED LECTURES

Making Meaning, Artist Talk. Ghost Pepper Gallery. Austin, TX October 10, 2026

Galveston Bay Ecology Kayak Tour. Galveston State Park and AIA Houston. August 16, 2025

Clay, Soil, and Making Workshop. AIA Houston, Architecture Center. July 12, 2025

Designing Resilient Gardens for Houston. AIA Houston, Architecture Center. June 17, 2025

Colorful, Verdant, Fun. Invited Lecture. Department of Landscape Architecture. Rhode Island School of Design. April 2024

Lecturer, Landscape Architecture. Rice School of Architecture at Rice University. Autumn 2022

Art as a Tool for Data Expression: Bayou Beacon. Prague City Data Congress, Center for Architecture and Metropolitan Planning. Prague, Czech Republic. October 26, 2021

Supporting Environmental Resilience and Health Equity through Green Playgrounds. Upswell Summit. October 20, 2021

Cultures of Place Invited Lecture, University of South Florida. Department of Architecture & Community Design. July 7. 2021

Alumni Speaker, Landscape Architecture Awards Ceremony, Rhode Island School of Design. June 4. 2021

Light Art Installations for Emerging Designers. Interactive Workshop. April 9, 2021

Opening Speaker, Oregon ASLA Design Conference “Nourish”. August 12. 2020, Portland, OR

Inside Falon Land Studio. Invited Speaker. DLR Group Design Days. July 15. 2020, Dallas, TX

The Business of Innovation: Three Case studies in unconventional practice. Invited Talk with Nina Chase and Sara Zewde. National Conference on Landscape Architecture. San Diego, CA November 15, 2019

Deep Work | Play | Time. Invited Talk. Texas Society of Architects Annual Conference. Galveston, TX October 24, 2019

Feeling the Weather. Next Practices in Landscape Architecture. Land8 Lightning Talks. June 26, 2019

Music of the Place, Inuksuit Roundtable. Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. February 15, 2019

Climate Pulse. CODA Summit: New Technologies in Art and Design. September 20, 2018 Santa Fe, New Mexico

Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Prairie View A&M University. August 2016-May 2017

Sublime Landscape Experience. Invited Artist Lecture, Department of Art and Art History, University of Missouri. Kansas City, Missouri. April 21, 2016

Florida Edible Landscape Design. Course Presenter. Annual Conference, Florida Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Key Largo, Florida. July 2014

SELECT PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS

2028 All the Light is for Thriving, architectural glass, Permanent Public Art for LBJ Hospital with Poet Roberto Tejada

2028 Singing Leaves, architectural glass, Permanent Public Art for LBJ Hospital. Houston, Texas

2026 Lunch, mosaic sculpture with artists Alex Larsen and Eleazar Ruiz. Harris County Public Parks. Aldine, Texas

2025 Microcosm/Macrocosm, Mosaic Sculpture. Spring School District. Spring, Tx

2024 the Abandoned Garden. Meow Wolf Houston. Houston, Tx

2024 Jardin para Niños, Tinsley Community Park Mosaic. Houston, Tx

2023 Seagrass. Permanent Public Art Commission. Shenandoah Park. Miami Art in Public Places. Miami, FL

2022 Windbloom. Permanent Public Art Commission. Alief Community Center. Houston, Tx

2021 the Bayou Beacon. Interactive Public Art Installation. Sawyer Yards. Houston, Tx

2020 Meander Permanent Public Art Commission. Historic Market Square Park. Downtown Houston, Tx

2019 Topo Corporate Commission. Outdoor Voices. Houston, Tx

2019 Rain Corporate Commission. Capital Tower. Skanska Development Corporation. Houston, Tx

2019 Inuksuit Environmental Art Installation. Humanities Research Center. Rice University. Houston, Tx

2018 Climate Pulse Weather Responsive Light Art. Emancipation Park. Houston, Tx

2018 Playshapes Interactive Public Art for Kids. East End Esplanade. Houston, Tx

2018 Esquina de Musica Interactive Musical Sculpture. Castillo Community Center. Houston, Tx

2016 Periscope Percent for Art Permanent Commission, Pratt & Central Avenue. Baltimore, Maryland

2015 Color Clouds Public Art Installation, Harrisburg Blvd. Presented by the East End Foundation. Houston, Tx

2011 Compost Grove Environmental Art Installation, Tillinghast Farm. Barrington, Rhode Island

SELECT PRESS

“The Menil Announces Resilient Renovations” by Amber Elliott. the Houston Chronicle. Jan 14 2026

“Houston’s Unique Ecology is at the Core of Architecture Center Exhibition” by Meredith Nudo. Houstonia Magazine. June 26, 2025

“At Meow Wolf, Real-World roots for a Fictional Garden”. by Timothy A. Schuler. Landscape Architecture Magazine. February 2025

“Meow Wolf’s New Houston Outpost”. by Sarah Cascone. Artnet. October 25, 2024

“What to touch, see, and hear at Houston’s new Meow Wolf”. by Tarra Gaines. Culture Map Houston. October 24, 2024

“Meow Wolf Opens New Portal in 5th Ward”. by Andrew Dansby. Houston Chronicle. February 15, 2024

“Neighborhood Center in Houston supports the health of Local Residents”. by Rodrigo Gerardo. Architect’s Newspaper Oct. 2023

“Falon Mihalic’s Sculpture Maps the Atmospheric forces that Bind Us”. by Zach Mortice. Landscape Architecture Magazine. Sept. 2022

“An Environmental Revelation” by Ross Wienert. Cite Digital, Rice Design Alliance. July 12, 2021

“Making the Meander: Falon Land Studio’s Prototype Practice” by Haniya Rae. Landscape Architecture Magazine. February 2021

“Market Square Park glows with newest Public Art Installation” by Sam Byrd. Houston Press. January 6, 2021

“New Public Art in Houston’s outdoors brings cheer to a somber Year” by Molly Glentzer. Houston Chronicle. December 15, 2020

“Immersive new bayou-themed artwork takes Houstonians down meandering trail downtown. CultureMap. December 10, 2020

“A Map to the Music of the Place” by Zach Mortice, Landscape Architecture Magazine Online March 14, 2019

“You Must experience the environmental wonder of Inuksuit” by Hannah Che, Houstonia Magazine February 13, 2019

“Gulfton Greens: Gulfton Park Master Plan” by Tim Schuler, Landscape Architecture Magazine September 2018

“the PINK sink by Falon Land Studio” World Landscape Architecture Magazine. June 2016

“Top Ten Arts Events. Artist Talk by Falon Mihalic”. Houston Chronicle. July 17 2015.