Kota Ezawa
Kota Ezawa is a video artist based in San Francisco. Born in Germany, he has lived in San Francisco for over a decade. Recent solo exhibitions include Lennon Sontag Beuys, Murray Guy, New York (2005); MATRIX 154 Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; On Photography Santa Monica Museum of Art; Version New Langton Arts, San Francisco (2-person exhibition with Michele O’Marah) (2004); Who’s Afraid of Black, White and Grey Haines Gallery, San Francisco (2003). His work has also been shown in numerous group exhibitions including I Still Believe in Miracles/Drawing Space, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, France (2005); Seeing Double: Encounters with Warhol, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh (2005); Drawn Out Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago (2005); Shanghai Biennale 5, Shanghai Art Museum, China (2004); 2004 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach (2004); Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art, Seattle Art Museum and traveling (2003); Bay Area Now 3 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2002); It’s the beginning of a real good friendship, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany. Selected screenings include Premieres The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2005); Courtisane Festival Gent, Belgium (2003). Impakt Festival Utrecht, The Netherlands (2002); Images Festival, Toronto (2001); International Short Film Festival, Berlin Germany (2000). Ezawa has recently been awarded a residency fellowship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany. In 2003 he was awarded the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, a Personal Works Grant from the Film Arts Foundation, and a Mediamaker Award from the Bay Area Video Coalition. In 2002 he was given a Jack and Gertrude Murphy Fellowship from the San Francisco Foundation. Ezawa is also known as a member of the Helen Lundy Trio.
Source Materials:
• A selection of videos, including Direct from London: the 1994 Intel World Chess Grand Prix; Stalking the President: A history of American Assassins; Winnetou; Thinking Machines: The creation of the Computer; Showdown in Seattle: 5 Days that shook the WTO; Inside the Vatican; The very best of the Ed Sullivan Show: Volume 2 – the greatest entertainers; Germany; Turbo.
• Various digital prints from research into the history of photography
• various digital prints of film stills
