Kota Ezawa is a media artist known for creating computer animations that explore the mediation of cultural and historical events. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Georgia Museum of Art in 2021 and the Baltimore Museum of Art. Ezawa has received a number of fellowships, awards, grants, and residencies, including the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in 2003; a SECA Art Award from SFMOMA in 2006 and a Eureka Fellowship in 2010. He studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and the San Francisco Art Institute before receiving his Masters of Fine Art from Stanford University.

In 2022, Ezawa was included in the exhibition, “From Moment to Movement: Picturing Protest in the Kramlich Collection,” at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis and was an invited speaker in UC Davis Art Studio’s Visiting Artist Lecture Series.

Organized by The Manetti Shrem California Studio in the Department of Art and Art History. Co-sponsored by the Manetti Shrem Museum.  

Artist talk: Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 4:30 p.m., Manetti Shrem Museum of Art