Kota Ezawa

Kota Ezawa (* 1969 in Cologne ) is a German computer graphic artist , multimedia artist and avant-garde filmmaker who is an Associate Professor of Media Art at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco .

Career

Kota Ezawa, the son of Kennosuke Ezawa , studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1990–1994 . There he was a master class video and media artist with the South Korean Nam June Paik in 1995 . He then studied contemporary art in the USA : He graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute - also in 1995 - with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Stanford University in 2003 with a Master of Fine Arts .

His drawings are based on the photo, using vector graphics and image processing software.

presentations

Drawings, animations and installations at exhibitions and film days:

• 2001: San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
• 2004: New Langton Arts in San Francisco
• 2005: Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut
• 2006: Museum of Modern Art on Manhattan , Artpace in San Antonio
• 2007: Hayward Gallery in London , Tate Gallery of Modern Art in London, Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown (Massachusetts)
• 2008: Musée du Louvre in Paris
• 2009: Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University
• 2011: Madison Square Park on Manhattan, Oberhausen International Short Film Festival , Reading Experimental Film Festival in Reading
• 2012: Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Upper East Side Manhattans, Vancouver Art Gallery
• 2013: Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo , Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC , Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco
• 2015: Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk (Virginia) , Kunsthalle Bremen , Galerie FeldbuschWiesner in Berlin
• 2016: Christopher Grimes Gallery in Santa Monica

Book publications

• together with Lars Bang Larsen and Chus Martínez : The History of Photography Remix . 60 pages. Nazraeli Press, El Paso de Robles 2006 (English)
• together with Kathy Slade: Odessa staircase redux . 160 pages. JRP Ringier , Zurich 2010 (English)
• together with Kevin Killian and Roger Rowley: Upstairs, downstairs . 20 pages. University of Idaho 2010 (English)

Awards, prizes and grants

• 2001: Jack and Gertrude Murphy Scholarship from the San Francisco Foundation
• 2003 Cold Spring Harbor : The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
• 2005: Scholarship holder at the Akademie Schloss Solitude
• 2006: SECA Art Award from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• 2010: Eureka Fellowship of the Fleishhacker Foundation for visual artists
• 2011: Scholarship holder at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin Headlands
• 2013: Fellow at the Goethe-Institut Villa Kamogawa in Kyōto
• 2014: Chair at the Lamar Dodd School of Art in Athens (Georgia)

swell

• Entry at Goethe-Institut Villa Kamogawa
• Entry in the California College of the Arts (English)
• Entry at Christopher Grimes Gallery (English)
• Entry at re-title.com/artists/cv (English)

Web links

• Website at UbuWeb
• Literature by and about Kota Ezawa in the bibliographic database WorldCat (English)
• Kota Ezawa at work . 3-minute video on YouTube (English)
• Entries in WorldCat (English)
• Literature by and about Kota Ezawa in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entries at gettextbooks.com.ua (English)
• Kota Ezawa in the Murray Guy Gallery (English)
• Entries at artnet (English)
• Entry at re-title.com/artists (English)
• 20 works in the Anita Beckers gallery, Frankfurt am Main
• Entry at warhol.org
• Entries in Arthistoricum.net

Remarks

1. ↑ Fine Arts = fine arts .
2. ^ SECA = Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art - Society for the promotion of contemporary art.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ eng. Residence in 2016
2. ↑ Editors (computer programs) for vector graphics
3. ^ Benjamin Genocchio: ART REVIEW; Life, One Frame At a Time . In: New York Times . December 25, 2005 (English, nytimes.com [accessed April 24, 2019]).
4. ↑ eng. Nazraeli Press
5. ↑ eng. Eureka Fellowship