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KOTA EZAWA Page 1 \| Biography
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 Dusseldorf, Germany
Solo Exhibitions 2009 �Superlight: Selections from the 2nd Biennial 01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge�, MOCA Cleveland, OH, (Upcoming, January 23 � May 10, 2009) 2008 The 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale (Upcoming, November 2008) Biennial: Superlight, San Joes Museum of Art, May 10 � August 30, 2008 Murray Guy, New York, NY �Lennon Sontag Beuys�, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO "Documenta", Arquebuse Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland. (with Dietmar Lutz) 2007 "Kota Ezawa: Hotel California," The Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, England "Kota Ezawa: The History of History," Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada. �Kota Ezawa; Re-Animating History,� Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA 2006 �Kota Ezawa,� Artpace, San Antonio, TX �The History of Photography Remix, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2005 �The History of Photography Remix,� Art Positions, Art Basel Miami Beach exhibited with Haines Gallery �Matrix 154�, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT �Lennon Sontag Beuys,� Murray Guy, New York, NY �Project Room,� Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA 2004 �Version,� New Langton Arts, San Francisco (and Michele O�Marah) 2003 �Who�s Afraid of Black, White and Grey,� Haines Gallery, San Francisco �AAA,� Grove Street Windows, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery (with Karla Milosevich) 2000 �IP,� K�nstlergilde Hechingen, Hechingen, Germany (with Karla Milosevich) �Rocktoberfest,� Scene/Escena Gallery, San Francisco (with Karla Milosevich)
Group Exhibitions SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2008 "The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving, Part II: Realisms", Hirshhorn Museum Sculpture Garden, Washington DC �My [Public] Space�, Nederlands Institut voor Mediakunst, Montevideo/Time Based Arts, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. "Southern Exposure", Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA (traveled to Sydney MCA) "The New Normal", Artists Space, New York, NY �The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image; Part II: Realisms,� Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC "Two-Fold Fraction", PKM Gallery, Beijing, China �The Object is the Mirror (Part II),� Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK "Three Days of Film Screenings by Contemporary Artists", Haunch of Venison, London, England 2007 "Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America," Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA "Into the Atomic Sunshine - Post -War Art under Japanese Peace Constitution Article 9," Puffin Room, New York, New York. "A Temporal Moving Image," Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA "Animated Painting," San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA "On Paper," Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA "Geopolitics of Animation," Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain. "On the Scene: Kota Ezawa, Sarah Hobbs, Angela Strassheim," The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL "Image Processor," Lombard-Freid Projects, New York, NY �Videology,� Gandy Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia �SECA Art Award Exhibition,� SFMoMA, San Francisco, CA �Reality Reloaded,� 14-1 Galerie, Galerienhaus Stuttgart, Breitscheidstrabe 48, Stuttgart, Germany 2006 �Out of Time: Contemporary Art from the Collection,� The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY �Down by Law,� The Wrong Gallery at the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY �NextNew2006: Art and Technology,� Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA �Regarding Truth: An Exhibition of Work by Artadia Award Winners,� California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA �Histories Animades,� Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Spain �Ruby Satellite,� Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago. IL �Metro Pictures,� The Moore Space/Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL 2005 �The Last Generation,� Apex Art, New York, NY, traveling to Jousse Entreprise, Paris, France �Bay Area Bazaar,� Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR �I Still Believe in Miracles,� Mus�e d�Art moderne de la Ville de Paris / ARC au Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris �in words and pictures,� Murray Guy, NY, NY �Seeing Double: Encounters with Warhol,� The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA �Premieres,� Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY 2004 �2004 California Biennial,� Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA �Shanghai Biennial,� Shanghai Art Museum �temporalscape,� Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA �Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art,� traveling exhibition: Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada; CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA (catalogue) �simple.tech,� Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 2003 �Killer Kartoons�, Vox Populi, Philadelphia �Single Channel,� Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston �Courtisane Festival,� Gent, Belgium 2002 �Bay Area Now 3,� Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco �Impakt Festival,� Utrecht, The Netherlands 2001 �Images Festival,� Toronto �Stuttgarter Filmwinter,� Stuttgart, Germany 2000 �LA Freewaves,� Otis Gallery, Los Angeles �International Short Film Festival Berlin,� Germany �International Festival of New Film,� Split, Croatia �It�s the beginning of a new friendship,� Kunstverein, D�sseldorf, Germany 1999 �Spiel des Lebens,� Hauptpost, D�sseldorf, Germany 1997 �Better,� San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery 1995 �Rhine Video,� Anthology Film Archives, New York 1993 �D�sseldorf, Cologne - A Village Gaze,� Anthology Film Archives, New York
Bibliography 2008 Ezawa, Kota. �Screening Rooms � or Return to Vaudeville,� American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Summer 2008, pp.11-14. Ellegood, Anne, �Matthew Buckingham�, The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, D Giles Ltd, London 2008, pp.134-137 Tissot, Karine. "Dietmar Lutz & Kota Ezawa: Documenta", artreview, May 2008. Meacham, Steve. "A tale of two cities",The Sydney Morning Herald, March 21-23, 2008. "Animation Art", artkrush, Issue 78, February 20, 2008. "The New Normal", ARTCAL, April 15, 2008. 2007 Hertz, Betti-Sue. �Kota Ezawa�, Animated Painting, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, 2007 Olson, Christopher, �Kota Ezawa�, Border Crossings, Issue 103, August 2007, pp. 138-140 Ezawa, Kota, �The History of History at Charles H. Scott Gallery. Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC, Canada�, Art on Paper, July/August, 2007, p. 74 "Nam June Paik, Alan Rath, Kota Ezawa," Flavorpill, Issue #286. Vogelz, Traci. "Art Footage," SFWeekly, October 17 - 23, 2007. "The Exhibitionists," The New York Times Magazine, Fall 2007. "Meviews," art on paper," July/August, Vol.11, No. 6, 2007. Egan, Danielle. "Drawing from History," The Globe and Mail, Friday, April 13, 2007. Laurence, Robin. "Visual DJ Ezawa puts spin on photo culture," The Georgia Straight, March 29 - April 5, 2007. Frank, Peter. �Ruby Satellite at the UCR/California Museum of Photography, Riverside,� art on paper, March/April 2007. Janku, Laura Richard. �2006 SECA Awards,� art ltd., March 2007. Baker, Kenneth. �SECA Award winners,� San Francisco Chronicle, January 27, 2007. Artdaily.org, �SFMoMA 2006 SECA Art Awards Exhibitions,� January 27, 2007. Chun, Kimberly. �The Video Guy,� San Francisco Bay Guardian, January 24 � 30, 2007 �2006 SECA Art Award...� SFMoMA Program Guide, March 2007. 2006 Bang Larsen, Lars and Chus Martinez, �For the Love of Photography�, The History of Photography Remix, Nazraeli Press, Portland, 2006. Gonzalez Valdez, Michelle, �Kota Ezawa�, NYArts, November-December, 2006. Voorhies, James. �Regarding Truth� in Artadia San Francisco Bay Area 2005 exhibition catalogue, Artadia: the Fund for Art and Dialogue, San Francisco, pp. 5-6. Waxman, Lori. �Kota Ezawa Lennon Sontag Beuys�, para-para, issue 021 pp. 2-3. O�Brien, Pat. � Thought-provoking works debut at UCR museum,� The Press-Enterprise Saturday, October, 28, 2006. Baker, Kenneth. � Emblems of an Era as Seen From a Fresh Medium,� San Francisco Chronicle, January 21, 2006. Keats, Jonathan. �Kota Ezawa at Haines Gallery,� Art in America, May 2006. Mobley, Chuck. �From A to Z and Back Again,� Contemporary Magazine, Issue 82, pgs 36 - 37. Smith, Roberta. "Power, Injustice, Death. Loss: At Sea in the Here and Now," The New York Times, September 1, 2006. �Last Chance,� San Francisco Chronicle, 96 Hours Section, February 9, 2006. Bing, Alison. �Kota Ezawa at Haines Gallery,� Artweek, March 2006, Volume 37, Issue 2 Broker, David. Photofile, #74: Don�t Flip the Switch, Spring 2005. 2005 Vine, Richard. �Shanghai Accelerates�, Art in America, pp.104-111 Chattopadhyay, Collette. �2004 California Biennial at OCMA,� Artweek, December 2004/January 2005, Volume 35, Issue 10. Genocchio, Benjamin. �Life, One Frame at a Time,� The New York Times, December 25, 2005. Goldsmith, Meredith. �Reviews: West Coast � San Francisco,� Art Papers, January/February 2005. Goldstein, Leigh. �One to Watch: Kota Ezawa,� Artkrush.com, Issue #3, April 2005. Higgs, Matthew. �Kota Ezawa,� Artforum, February 2005, 162-163. �The Last Generation,� The New Yorker,�. December 2005 Ratner, Megan. �Kota Ezawa,� Frieze Magazine, Issue 95, November - December 2005 Kota Ezawa & John Smith in conversation. �From Fame to Form and Pop to Hop,� Camerawork, Volume 32, No. 2, Fall/Winter 2005 Stillman, Nick. �Kota Ezawa,� Time Out New York, Issue 524, Oct. 13-20, 2005. Schwendener, Martha. �Critic�s Pick: Kota Ezawa � Murray Guy� Artforum.com, 2005. Zellen, Jody. �Reviews: West Coast � Santa Monica,� Art Papers, July / August 2005 2004 Bing, Alison. �Artist at work: Kota Ezawa,� Art Contemporaries, Fall 2004, pp.4-5. Coupland, Ken. �Distant Recall,� RES (November/December). Bing, Alison. �Kota Ezawa and Michele O�Mara: �Version�: A Room for Debate,� SF Gate, October 7, 2004. Feldman, Melissa. �Kota Ezawa at Haines,� Art in America, April, 2004, p. 141. Knight, Christopher. �Coastal confluence: Geography links the art in �Baja to Vancouver,� but it�s the social landscape that resonates,� Los Angeles Times, February 1, 2004, pp. E41, E48. Failing, Patricia. ��Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art,� Seattle Art Museum,� Reviews, ARTnews, February, 2004, pp. 117-118. 2003 �Kota Ezawa,� Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation 2003 Awards Catalogue, pp.24-25. Baker, Kenneth. �Who�s Afraid of Computer Animation � Or Modern Art by One of Italy�s Greats,� San Francisco Chronicle, November 22, 2003. Hackett, Regina. �A treck through West Coast art: �Baja to Vancouver� at SAM explores the distinctive cultural terrain of the Pacific corridor,� Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 9, 2003, section E Farr, Sheila. �SAM�s �Baja to Vancouver� showcases impact of mass culture on West Coast art,� The Seattle Times, October 9, 2003 Bonetti, David. �Contemporary Magazine, Issue No. 49, p. 25 2002 Tromble, Merideth. �Bay Area Now 3,� Stretcher.org, November Lee, Margaret. �The Now School: Five Artists from Bay Area Now 3,� Kitchen Sink, Fall Macpherson, Mary. �Revisiting OJ From a Distance,� North Beach Journal, November Helfand, Glen. �Now, or later,� SF Bay Guardian, September 11 Baker, Kenneth. �Ezawa animates OJ Verdict,� San Francisco Chronicle, October 25
Grants/Awards AWARDS / FELLOWSHIPS 2010 Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation, San Francisco, CA 2006 SECA Art Award 2005 Artadia Jury Award Residency Fellowship, Akadmemie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award Personal Work Grant, Film Arts Foundation Videomaker Award, Bay Area Video Coalition 2002 Jack and Gertrude Murphy Fellowship, The San Francisco Foundation 1995 Meistersch�ler, Kunstakademie Dusseldorf PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, CA The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Kenstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany Margulies Collection at the WAREhouse, Miami, FL Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond, WA Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, CA Museum of Modern Art, New York NY Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA RISD Museum, Providence, RI San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS University of California, San Francisco, CA University of Texas, Austin, TX Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Projects SELECTED SCREENINGS & LECTURES 2008 Kota Ezawa: The History of Photography Remix, Oakland Museum of CA, Oakland, CA The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium, UC Berkeley Center for New Media, Berkeley Performance Anxiety, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK 2007 Aspen Museum of Art, Aspen, CO 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
Publications 2007 The History of Photography Remix, Nazraeli Press, essay by Lars Bang Larsen and Chus Martinez, 60 pages.

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