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Born 1969 in Cologne, Germany
Lives and works in San Francisco
EDUCATION
2003 Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA - MFA
1995 San Francisco Art Institute - BFA
1990-94 Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany
AWARDS
2006 SECA Art Award
2003 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
2002 Jack and Gertrude Murphy Fellowship, San Francisco Foundation
1995 Meisterschüler, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Group Show, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt a M, Germany
2009 Medley, Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis, MN
2009 Medley, The Box, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
2008 Kota Ezawa: Brawl, Harriet & Charles Luckman Fine Arts Complex,
California State University, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Multiplex, Murray Guy, New York, NY
2008 Documenta, Arquebuse, Geneva, Switzerland (with Dietmar Lutz)
2008 Kota Ezawa: Lennon Sontag Beuys, New Media Series, St Louis Art Museum, St Louis, MO
2007 Last Year at Marienbad, Gandy Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2007 Hotel California, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
2007 The History of History, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver, Canada
2007 Kota Ezawa: Re-Animating History, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
2006 Artpace, San Antonio, TX
2006 Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 Matrix, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
2005 Lennon Sontag Beuys, Murray Guy, New York, NY
2005 On Photography, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
2004 Version, New Langton Arts, San Francisco (two-person exhibition)
2003 Who’s Afraid of Black, White and Grey, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 AAA, with Karla Milosevich, Grove Street Windows, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 The Moving Image: Scan to Screen, Pixel to Projection, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
2009 Superlight, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
2009 H-Box, Orange Country Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
2009 The Moving Image: Scan to Screen, Pixel to Projection, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
2008 Brought to Light: Photography and the Invisible, 1840–1900, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2008 Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium since 1960, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2008 The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image, Part II: Realisms, The Hirshhorn Museum and 2008 Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
2008 01SJ Biennial: Superlight, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, traveling to Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland (2009)
2008 Worlds on video - Video Arte Internazionale, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
Framing and Being Framed: The Uses of Documentary Photography, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery,
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding, Parsons The New School for Design / The Vera List Center for Art and Politics, New York
Floating Architectures and Constant Centers: Some Projections, Martin Art Gallery, Pennsylvania
The 5th Seoul International Media Art Bienniale, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Kiki: The Proof Is In the Pudding, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
My [Public] Space, Nederlands Institut voor Mediakunst, Montevideo/Time Based Arts, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Southern Exposure, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
The New Normal, Artists Space,New York, NY; traveling to Huarte Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Navarra, Spain; The Decker Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD; 2009: Canzani Center Gallery, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH (2009); Pomona College Museum of Art, Montgomery Art Center, Claremont CA (2009)
Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Two-Fold Faction, PKM Gallery, Beijing, China
The Object is the Mirror (Part II), Wilkinson, London, UK
Into the Atomic Sunshine - Post-War Art under Japanese Peace Constitution Article 9, Puffin Room, New York, NY; tavelling to Daikanyama Hillside Forum, Tokyo, Japan; Okinawa Prefectural Museum of Art and Sakima Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan (2009)
2007 Animated Histories, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Animated Painting, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, traveling to: Centro Cultural Tijuana, Mexico (2008); Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnel , IA (2009)
Geopolitics of Animation, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain
Kota Ezawa/Alan Rath/Nam June Paik Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Matthew Buckingham, Francis Cape, Kota Ezawa, Matthew Higgs, Murray Guy, New York, NY
On the Scene: Kota Ezawa, Sarah Hobbs, Angela Strassheim, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Image Processor, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York, NY
Videology, Gandy Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2006 SECA Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2006 Ruby Satellite, California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside, CA
NextNew2006: Art and Technology, San Jose ICA, San Jose, CA
Regarding Truth, San Francisco/Bay Area 2005 Artadia Award Recipients, Wattis Institute,
San Francisco, CA
Out of Time – A Contemporary View, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Golden State – New Statements by California Artists, Paulson Press, Berkeley, CA
Histoires Animées, CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain; traveling to Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain; Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France
Metro Pictures, MOCA, Miami, FL
Down By Law, Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Joint Venture, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
2005 The Last Generation, curated by Max Henry, Apexart, New York, NY; Jousse Entreprise, Paris, France
Drawn out, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago IL
Bay Area Bazaar, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland. WA
I still believe in miracles: 1. drawing without paper, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France. catalogue.
Seeing Double: Encounters with Warhol, The Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
in words and pictures, Murray Guy, New York, NY
2004 Shanghai Biennale 2004, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China. catalogue
California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA. catalogue.
Temporal Scape, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada; CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA. catalogue.
Color Value, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
2002 Bay Area Now 3, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA. Catalogue.
Murphy & Cadogan Awards Show, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 Fall Out, Otis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Spiel des Lebens, Hauptpost, Düsseldorf, Germany. Catalogue.
1997 Better, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery.
1995 Rhine Video, Anthology Film Archives, New York.
1993 Düsseldorf, Cologne--A Village Gaze, Anthology Film Archives, New York.
SELECTED SCREENINGS
2008 Performance Anxiety, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK
2007 Aspen Museum of Art, Aspen, CO
Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
Pervasive Animation, Tate Modern, London
2005 Premieres, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
2003 Courtisane Festival, Gent, Belgium.
2002 Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
2002 Film Arts Festival, San Francisco.
2001 Images Festival, Toronto.
Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany.
2000 International Short Film Festival Berlin, Germany.
International Festival of New Film, Split, Croatia
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2008 Lewallen, Constance and Kota Ezawa, “In Conversation: Kota Ezawa with Constance Lewallen”, The Brooklyn Rail, September 2008, pp.40-43
Ezawa, Kota, “Screening Rooms – or Return to Vaudeville”, American Art, Summer 2008, pp.11-14
Ellegood, Anne, “Kota Ezawa”, The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, D Giles Ltd, London 2008, pp.134-137
2007 Hertz, Betti-Sue. “Kota Ezawa”, Animated Painting, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, 2007
Olson, Christopher, “Kota Ezawa”, Border Crossings, Issue 103, August 2007, pp. 138-140
Ezawa, Kota, “The History of History at Charles H. Scott Gallery. Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC, Canada”, Art on Paper, July/August, 2007, p. 74
Egan, Danielle, “Drawing from History”, The Globe and Mail, April 13, 2007
Laurence, Robin. “Kota Ezawa – The History of History”, Straight.com
2006 Bang Larsen, Lars and Chus Martinez, “For the Love of Photography”, The History of Photography Remix, Nazraeli Press, Portland, 2006
Gonzalez Valdez, Michelle, “Kota Ezawa”, NYArts, November-December, 2006
Voorhies, James. “Regarding Truth” in Artadia San Francisco Bay Area 2005 exhibition catalogue, Artadia: the Fund for Art and Dialogue, San Francisco, pp. 5-6.
Mobley, Chuck, “From A to Z and back again”, Contemporary, Issue no. 82, June, 2006
Keats, Jonathon. “Kota Ezawa at Cheryl Haines”, Art in America, May 2006, p.197
Bing, Alison, “Kota Ezawa at Haines Gallery”, Artweek, February 2006
Waxman, Lori. “Kota Ezawa Lennon Sontag Beuys”, para-para, issue 021 pp. 2-3
Baker, Kenneth, “Emblems of an era as seen from a fresh medium”, San Francisco Chronicle, January 21, 2006, p.E-10
2005 Lettre_ Internationale, #009 December 2006, pp. Cover, 2,12 19,46, 49,51,53,55
Smith, John, “From Fame To Form and Pop to Hop: in conversation with Kota Ezawa”, Camerawork, Vol.32, No.2, Fall/Winter 2005, pp.6-15
Ratner, Megan., “Kota Ezawa”. frieze, Issue 95, November-December 2005, p.136.
Schwender, Martha, “Kota Ezawa”, artforum.com/picks, September/October 2005
Zellen, Jody, “Santa Monica”. Art Papers, July/August 2005, pp.57
Vine, Richard. “Shanghai Accelerates”, Art in America, pp.104-111
Tumlir. Jan. “California Biennial”, Artforum, February, pp 168
Goldsmith, Meredith. Art Papers January/February 2005
Goldstein, Leigh, “Kota Ezawa”, artkrush.com
Higgs, Matthew. “Openings: Kota Ezawa”, Artforum, February, pp 162-163
2004 Coupland, Ken. “Distant Recall,” RES, Vol.7 No. 6, November/December
Buckner, Clark. "Critic's Choice: Art; Version, New Langton Arts," San Francisco Bay Guardian, October 13,
Bing, Alison. "A Room for Debate," SFGate, October 13
Feldman, Melissa E. “Kota Ezawa at Haines,” Art in America, April
Knight, Christopher. “Coastal confluence,” Los Angeles Times, February 1
2003. Baker, Kenneth. “Who’s Afraid of Computer Animation—Or Modern Art by One of Italy’s Greats,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 22
Bonetti, David. “News - San Francisco,” Contemporary,spring
Hackett, Regina. “SAM Explores the Distinctive Cultural Terrain of the Pacific Corridor,”
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 9
“Kota Ezawa,” Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation 2003 Awards Catalogue, pp.24-25
2002 Baker, Kenneth. “Ezawa animates OJ Verdict,” San Francisco Chronicle, October 25
Tromble, Merideth. “Bay Area Now 3,” Stretcher, November
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond, WA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
The Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
The RISD Museum, Providence, RI
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
University of California, San Francisco, CA
University of Texas, Austin, TX
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
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