Antone Könst (b. 1987, New Haven, Connecticut) is a painter and sculptor who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He received his BFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2011 and his MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2014. Working across painting, sculpture and plaster and resin "glyphic tablets," he depicts flowers, animals and figures that are universally familiar yet deliberately unspecific, allowing a direct expression of emotion through soft, strong, smooth and rough brushwork. His imagery draws on personal experience, archival research, folk tales and mythology, with deep roots in modern art history and an interest in Eastern philosophy. He has had solo exhibitions at Tilton Gallery and Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York, Each Modern in Taipei. His honors include the Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship, and his work is in the collections of the X Museum in Beijing and the Jorge M. Pérez Collection.
