Coastal Signs - Ammon Ngakuru

Ammon Ngakuru
b. 1993, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Lives and works in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

Ammon Ngakuru holds a BVA from Auckland University of Technology and a MFA from Elam School of Fine Arts.

Ammon Ngakuru, Shiraz Sadikeen
Consequence Picture, 2025
Wood, tape, fabric, rubbish bag, tissue, miu miu wallet, ten
dollar note, St John Crumb, oil, Pantone 448c
Dimensions variable

Ammon Ngkauru
Empathy Map (detail), 2025
Oil on canvas
2205 x 1700mm

Ammon Ngakuru
Empathy Map 2025
Oil on canvas
2205 x 1700mm

Ammon Ngakuru
Ants (how to make) (detail), 2025
oil on pine
2500 x 275 x 275mm
installation view: May Art Fair, Tāmaki Makaurau, 2025

Ammon Ngakuru
Ants (how to make), 2025
oil on pine
2500 x 275 x 275mm
installation view: May Art Fair, Tāmaki Makaurau, 2025

Ammon Ngakuru
BetterHelp, 2025
oil and pastel on canvas
2300 x 1600mm
installation view: May Art Fair, Tāmaki Makaurau, 2025

Ammon Ngakuru
Affirmations, 2024
installation view: Coastal Signs, Tamaki Makaurau Auckland

Recent Solo Exhibitions

Ammon Ngakuru

Animals and Things, 2024
oil on canvas

1500mm x 2000mm

Ammon Ngakuru
Ideas for titles, 2024
oil on canvas
1500 x 2000 mm

Ammon Ngakuru
Ideas for titles (detail), 2024
oil on canvas
1500 x 2000 mm

Ammon Ngakuru
Noah's Arc, Elinor Ostrom's Governing the Commons, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
2300 x 4750mm

Recent Group Exhibitions

Ammon Ngakuru
Night, 2022
Oil paint on newspaper
2300x4000mm

Ammon Ngakuru
Night (detail), 2022
Oil paint on newspaper
2300 x 4000mm

Ammon Ngakuru
Michael Jackson and Bubbles, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
400 x 500mm

Ammon Ngakuru
Alphabet Painting (Bone in the Throat), 2022
acrylic on canvas, buttons
350 x 400mm

Ammon Ngakuru
Evergreen, 2021
acrylic on canvas
600 x 700 mm

Ammon Ngakuru
Misere, 2022
canvas, permanent marker
1800 x 1450mm

Readings

Ammon Ngakuru
Untitled, 2020
Artforum, shoebox
130 x 300 x 350mm

Ammon Ngakuru
Oakes, 2020
acrylic on canvas
400 x 450mm

Ammon Ngakuru
Cut-Outs, 2020
installation view: Enjoy, Te Whānganui-a-Tara Wellington

Ammon Ngakuru
Taylor, 2020
acrylic on canvas
400 x 450mm

Ammon Ngakuru
Lentil, 2020
box, ring-light, cookbook
120 x 500 x 500mm