Australian-born Hunter Amos is an artist whose idiosyncrasies include not only an inspired choice of subject, but a deft manipulation of material. His oil paintings defy perception and appear as though products of natural erosion: figures and other forms emerge from within, greeting the viewer from the ‘other side’. Herein lies the mystery surrounding Amos’ painting: each crevice and crease about its surface is deliberate and yet the resulting impression is anything but. Using his amassed knowledge of natural formations, weathering, and other marks, Amos has begun to understand things via the impositions of their environment. Consistently debating the value of human intervention in the natural world, questioning whether humans are part of or apart from nature, he is developing a nuanced practice concerned at its core with materiality in painting and, more broadly, in the world.

Born 2001, Parsons School of Design, New York City, 2019. Select solo shows include Rough Hold, 2024, Anna Zorina Galery, New York `City and Synonyms, 2020, Axes Project Space, Brisbane. Select group shoes include A Brutal Kind of Bloom, 2026, FreddieFoulkes Gallery, London, Early Man 2 and Horripilation, both 2024, The Hole Gallery, New York City, Embodied Spaces PT, 2023, Strada Gallery, New York City, and Beyond This, 2023, Anna Zorina Gallery, Los Angeles. hunteramsostudio