Kota Ezawa
1969–

Kota Ezawa (born 1969, Cologne, Germany) is a Japanese-German American visual artist widely recognized for his artworks in which the subject is a source image, film, or news footage that Ezawa has redrawn in his distinctive visual style and remade as a video, mural, light box, sculpture, or in another medium.

Ezawa’s artworks have been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide. He 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, IL; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, and elsewhere.

In 2005 Ezawa received the Artadia Award. In 2006, Ezawa received a SECA Art Award. He received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in 2003.