Kota Ezawa

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Kota Ezawa
Born1969 (age 5455)
Education Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (1990-1994)
Alma mater San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), Stanford University

Kota Ezawa (born 1969, Cologne, West Germany) [1] is a Japanese-German American artist and arts educator. [2] His artwork usually responds to current events from sources in the news, pop culture, and art history. Ever since his debut 2002 video animation of The Simpson Verdict, Ezawa has been known for his flattened style in works on paper, light-boxes, and videos. By flattening his pieces into more two-dimensional figures, he creates more focus on the re-contextualized historical events in his pieces.

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Originally from Germany, he moved to San Francisco in 1994 and is currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. [3]

Biography

Ezawa grew up in Mössingen, outside Tübingen, West Germany; his father, Kennosuke Ezawa, was Japanese and a professor of Germanistik at the University of Tübingen. [4] [5] [6] [ circular reference ] He attended Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1990 until 1994 and studied with Nan Hoover and Nam June Paik. [7] [8] He moved in 1994 to San Francisco, California. [8] He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1995 from San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI). In 2003 he received his Master of Fine Arts degree from Stanford University. [7]

Since 2000, Ezawa has produced his own abstracted computer animations. [9] His work often juxtaposes seemingly contrary videos, politics, and celebrity recounting historical events, reminding the viewer that history is seen through an interpretative lens.

In 2005 he received the Artadia Award. [10] In 2006, Ezawa received a SECA Art Award. [11] [12]

He is an Associate Professor of Film and Fine Arts at California College of the Arts (CCA). [13]

Kota Ezawa has exhibited his work in solo exhibitions at Chrysler Museum of Art (2015), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2013), Wexner Center for the Arts (2009), St. Louis Art Museum, Artpace (2006), the Wadsworth Atheneum and many others. [14] [10] His work is also included in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. [15]

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