Antone Könst’s work explores common tropes from popular culture and historical artifacts—such as flowers, performers, animals, or mythology—and reshapes them in his unique language. Balancing playfulness with rigor, Könst creates work that is deeply engaged with formalism and materiality yet hints at broader conceptual and spiritual frameworks. The vibrant, yet primary color scheme of his work creates a fog through which the viewer can sail through to discover hidden textures, faces, and feelings within each piece.

Antone Könst was born in 1987 in New Haven, CT, and lives in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BFA from CalArts in Valencia, CA (2011), and his MFA from Yale University School of Art in New Haven, CT (2014).

He has mounted solo exhibitions at Castle Gallery in Los Angeles, CA (2024); Tilton Gallery in New York, NY (2023); Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York, NY (2022); Each Modern in Taipei, Taiwan (2022); and the Fondation des Etats Unis in Paris, France (2015).

He has participated in group exhibitions at Anton Kern Gallery in New York, NY (2023); Mrs. in Maspeth, NY (2022); Tilton Gallery in New York, NY (2021); Edlin Gallery in New York, NY (2019); Beers Gallery in London, GB (2018); and many others.

He has created public art commissions for The Lighthouse Works in Fishers Island, NY, and Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, NY.

Könst is a recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Grant and a Harriet Hale Woolley Fellowship.

His work is in the collections of the DEJI Museum in Nanjing, China, and X Museum in Beijing, China.