Kota Ezawa

Kota Ezawa
Born	1969 (age 47–48) Cologne, Germany
Education	Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Alma mater	San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), Stanford University

Kota Ezawa (born 1969, Cologne, Germany) is a Japanese-German artist and educator, based in San Francisco, California. He is best known for his computer animated films featuring re-contextualized historical events, that are communicated with flatten, stylized images influenced by pop art.

Ezawa grew up outside Stuttgart, Germany and attended Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1990 until 1994. He graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1995 from San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI). In 2003 he received his Master of Fine Arts from Stanford University.

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

He is an Associate Professor of Film and Fine Arts at California College of the Arts (CCA). In 2006 he received the SECA Art Award from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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) and the Wadsworth Atheneum and many others.

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