Kota Ezawa
Videomaker
Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Kota Ezawa rearticulates iconic moments from mass media and the history of photography into animated videos, slide projections and prints. Hand-drawn, frame by frame, these works are highly stylized, vividly colored interrogations of the camera and its operations. By reducing images to their most crucial two-dimensional elements, Ezawa emphasizes the malleability of photography and film while exposing their importance to the construction of a collective cultural identity.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Ezawa was born in Cologne, Germany and received his MFA from Stanford University in 2003. He was featured in a solo exhibition at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT (2005) and has been included in group shows at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2006); Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France (2005); and The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA (2005).