2003 MFA, Stanford University
1995 BFA, San Francisco Art Institute
1990-1994 Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, Germany
2006 "History of Photography Remix, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 "History of Photography Remix," Art Projects, 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
• Grove Street Windows, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery (with Karla Milosevich)
2000 "IP," Künstlergilde Hechingen, Hechingen, Germany (with Karla Milosevich)
• "Rocktoberfest," Scene/Escena Gallery, San Francisco (with Karla Milosevich)
2006 "The Last Generation," Jousse Entreprise, Paris, France
2005 "The Last Generation," Apex Art, New York, NY
"Bay Area Bazaar," Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
"I Still Believe in Miracles," Musée 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
"2004 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
"The Last Generation," Apex Art, New York, NY
"Single Channel," Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston
"Courtisane Festival," Gent, Belgium
"Color Value," Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago
• "Bay Area Now 3", Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. (catalogue)
"Murphy & Cadogan Awards Show," San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
"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
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2000 "International Festival of New Film," Split, Croatia
"It's the beginning of a new friendship," Kunstverein, Düsseldorf, Germany
1999 "Spiel des Lebens," Hauptpost, Düsseldorf, Germany
1998 "Video About Nothing," Artists' Television Access, San Francisco
1997 "Better," San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
1996 "Projets," L'Association, Marseille, France
1995 "Alternative Requirements," Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California
1995 "Rhine Video," Anthology Film Archives, New York
1993 "Düsseldorf, Cologne - A Village Gaze," Anthology Film Archives, New York
• 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 James Williams Borrelli Fellowship in Art, Stanford University
2001 Eric E. and Elizabeth B. Johnson Fellowship, Stanford University
1995 Meisterschuler, Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, Germany
1994 Sobel Memorial Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute
LECTURES / SCREENINGS
2006 "Fame as Form," Screening of The Unbearable Lightness of Being , California College of
the Arts, San Francisco, CA
SuperCinema : Materials. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
2005 Bing, Alison. "Kota Ezawa at Haines Gallery," Artweek, March 2006,
Volume 37, Issue 2
Genocchio, Benjamin. "Life, One Frame at a Time," The New York Times , December 25, 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. "This Side Towards Screen," Artforum , 2005.
Broker, David. Photofile, #74: Don't Flip the Switch, Spring 2005.
Chattopadhyay, Collette. "2004 California Biennial at OCMA," Artweek , December
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Goldsmith, Meredith. "Reviews: West Coast," 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, 162-16 3.
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Coupland, Ken. "Distant Recall," RES (November/December).
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