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 SF MOMA SECA Award
2003 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
2002 Jack and Gertrude Murphy Fellowship, San Francisco Foundation
1995 Meisterschüler, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

Solo Exhibitions  

2006 Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 Matrix, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Lennon Sontag Beuys , Murray Guy, New York, NY
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
2001 AAA, with Karla Milosevich, Grove Street Windows, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery

Selected Group Exhibitions

 2006 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; traveling to 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

2005 Premieres, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
2003 Courtisane Festival, Gent, Belgium.
2002 Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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

2006 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”, Camerwork, 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, p.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
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
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
2002 Baker, Kenneth. “Ezawa animates OJ Verdict,” San Francisco Chronicle, October 25
Tromble, Merideth. “Bay Area Now 3,” Stretcher, November

Public Collections

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond, WA