Ammon Rost is a New York-based artist whose gestural abstract paintings blend a wide range of art-historical references with a personal vocabulary. Raised in both Tokyo and California, Rost’s work is informed by a global perspective, drawing on diverse cultural influences while maintaining an intimate, introspective quality. His abstract pieces carry the subtle presence of figuration, often offering glimpses of familiar forms—faces, tools, and other symbolic shapes—that emerge through jagged strokes of paint and lush, impastoed fields of color.
Rost received his BFA in Art from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2004. He was a resident at the Silver Art Residency in 2020. Previous solo exhibitions include Loyal Gallery, Stockholm; New Image Art, Los Angeles and Ltd, Los Angeles. Rost’s work has been included in group exhibitions at Loyal Gallery, Stockholm; WIP Gallery, Beirut; Sargent’s Daughters, New York City; Wilding Cran, Los Angeles; Mindy Solomon, Miami and the Torrance Museum of Art, Torrance. His largest painting to date was commissioned for the Four Seasons, New York Downtown. The artist has been featured in an interview for Office Magazine.