Charis Ammon (born 1992, Dallas, TX) is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work captures the dynamic essence of urban life. Painting places she encounters as a pedestrian and passenger across New York and her native Texas, she captures the city both as a site of flux and setting for connection. The resulting compositions reorient our attention to consider spaces we often overlook or disregard, asking us to see the unexpected in the everyday. Ammon says, “You are in the physical space you occupy, hearing the sounds around you—yet you are in another world built in your mind. Whispers of life emerge from the surfaces and cityscapes around me that bend my attention back toward observation. These small moments weave my inner and outer worlds together.”
Ammon received her BFA in Painting from Texas State University in 2015, followed by an MFA in Painting from The University of Houston in 2018. Recent solo exhibitions include Sargent’s Daughters (New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA); Alexander DiJulio (New York, NY); Texas State University Gallery (San Marcos, TX), The Old Jail Art Center (Albany, TX); and Art League Houston (Houston, TX); and Inman Gallery (Houston, TX). Her work was recently exhibited in group exhibitions at Fireplace Project (East Hampton, NY); Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, (Houston, TX); and Lawndale Art Center (Houston, TX), amongst others. Her artist book, Rhythm, was included in a survey of book arts at The Printing Museum, Houston (2023). Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston (Houston, TX).
Ammon lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.