Ammon Rost (b. 1980, Tokyo, Japan) lives and works in New York. Rost received his BFA in Art from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2004, where he studied under Chris Burden and Catherine Opie. His practice centers on gestural abstract painting, blending a wide range of art-historical references with a personal visual vocabulary. While abstract in form, his paintings often retain traces of figuration, suggestive of faces, architecture, landscape, and symbolic shapes emerging through staccato brushwork and impastoed fields of color. These works reflect a global sensibility rooted in Rost’s transnational upbringing, balancing expressive intensity with introspective nuance. Raised in a bilingual household with an American father and Japanese mother, Rost spent his early childhood in Tokyo before moving to San Francisco at the age of eleven. His early engagement with art was shaped by manga culture, where fantastical narratives and graphic imagery informed his earliest drawing practices.

Rost has presented solo exhibitions at Anna Zorina (New York), Loyal (Stockholm), New Image Art (Los Angeles), and Ltd (Los Angeles). His work has been included in group exhibitions at venues including Loyal (Stockholm), Sargent’s Daughters (New York), Bureau Gasser (New York), Wilding Cran (Los Angeles), Mindy Solomon (Miami), WIP Gallery (Beirut), and the Torrance Museum of Art (Torrance). Rost recently completed a large-scale 25 foot commission for the Four Seasons Manhattan working with Gagosian Art Advisory.

Education

2004 BFA, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

Solo Exhibitions

2025
Omakase Gardens, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York, NY

2022
Mother’s Eye, Loyal, Stockholm, Sweden

2020
Ceiling Turned Out To Be The Floor, New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA

2019
Centerfold, New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA

2017
Everybody Wins, Ltd Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Group Exhibitions

2023
Floating Bodies, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen, Denmark

2021
Unearthed, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL

2020
100!, Loyal, Stockholm, Sweden

2019
L.A. on Fire, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Chroma, WIP Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon

2018
Visions of the Other Worlds, Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY
Rudder(with Ray Barsante), Ltd Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
CO/LAB III, BBQLA/Alex Obiger, Torrance Museum of Art, Torrance, CA
Soft Bodies, Werkartz, Los Angeles, CA

Residencies

2019 Silver Art Projects Residency, New York, NY