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Visiting Artist Lecture with Kota Ezawa
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The Low Residency MFA in Visual Studies (LRVS) program at PNCA is hosting visiting artist Kota Ezawa for a lecture on his practice. Kota Ezawa visually transforms imagery he mines from the news, the history of art, photography, film, and popular culture in his video animations, light boxes, murals, sculptures, watercolors, and works in other media. His process of translating recognizable depictions of contemporary and historic moments from one visual form to another is an inquiry, for the artist and viewer alike, into the cultural consciousness, shaped by images.
Kota Ezawa’s artworks have been presented in solo exhibitions at the Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture, San Francisco; SITE Santa Fe; the Mead Art Museum; and the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. Ezawa participated in the Whitney Biennial in 2019 and the Shanghai Biennale in 2004. His work is in the collections of institutions including The Art Institute of Chicago, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. A recipient of a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Ezawa studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, the San Francisco Art Institute, and Stanford University.
This event is free and open to the public. All are welcome. All images courtesy of the artist.