Menschenmenge (Crowd) No 5, 2021

Watercolor on paper, 17.5" x 22.75"

Courtesy of the artist, Framing courtesy of Eric Rose Art Services

Kota Ezawa is a Japanese-German American artist and arts educator. His artwork usually responds to current events from sources in the news, pop culture, and art history. Ever since his debut 2002 video animation of The Simpson Verdict, Ezawa has been known for his flattened style in works on paper, light-boxes, and videos. By flattening his pieces into more two-dimensional figures, he creates more focus on the re-contextualized historical events in his pieces.

His work has been showcased at many museums including the Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA; Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, CA; SITE Santa Fe, NM; Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA; Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; St. Louis Art Museum, MO; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Art Institute of Chicago, IL and among many others.

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