BIOGRAPHY
Kota Ezawa is an artist known for creating video, animations and lightboxes that explore the mediation of cultural and historical events in an essential, stylized manner. His work has recently been featured in solo exhibitions at the Georgia Museum of Art and the Baltimore Museum of Art. Ezawa has received a number of fellowships, awards, grants, and residencies, including the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, a SECA Art Award from SFMOMA and a Eureka Fellowship. He studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and the San Francisco Art Institute before receiving his Masters of Fine Art from Stanford University.
In 2022, Ezawa was included in the exhibition, "From Moment to Movement: Picturing Protest in the Kramlich Collection," at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis and was an invited speaker in the Visiting Artist Lecture Series.
COURSES TAUGHT
During spring quarter 2024, Ezawa will teach the undergraduate course "ART 102A: Advanced Painting: Studio Projects" and the graduate seminar "ART223: Concepts and Critique”. ART 102A meets on Mondays and Wednesdays from 1-4 p.m.
PUBLIC LECTURE
Ezawa will give a public lecture on Thursday, Apr. 25 from 4:30 - 6 p.m. at the Manetti Shrem Museum. The talk is open to the public. Doors open at 4 p.m.
PHOTOS
Photographs will be available at the conclusion of the residency.
Photo Credit: Kota Ezawa, Handvote, painted wood, Canal Park, Washington, DC, 2014. Courtesy the artist and Ryan Lee Gallery, New York.