Kota Ezawa

Kota Ezawa is a Japanese-born, San Francisco-based artist known for his distinctive practice of redrawing and reanimating iconic images from art history, news media, film, and popular culture using simplified, flat digital illustration. His work critically examines how images circulate and gain meaning in contemporary media, often reducing photographs and film stills to their essential graphic elements. Ezawa has exhibited widely in major international institutions and is recognized as a significant voice in contemporary discussions of appropriation, image culture, and digital media.