Exhibitions
Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design
The History of History
Kota Ezawa
Curated by Cate Rimmer
The Charles H. Scott Gallery is pleased to present Kota Ezawa: The History of History. Ezawa employs computer animation and drawing to create his own versions or samplings of iconic moments from art history and popular culture. His work comments on the role celebrity, television, film and photography plays in shaping collective experience. The exhibition at the Charles H. Scott includes a series of paper collages, a series of prints, a three channel projection Lennon, Sontag, Beuys, in which the three artists/celebrities speak simultaneously about the possibility for images to inspire social change, and a slide show work entitled The History of Photography Remix.
Biographies
Kota Ezawa is perhaps best known for his 2002 animation The Simpson Verdict (based on the televised OJ Simpson verdict announcement). He has been included in numerous group exhibitions including Down by Law, Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of Art, New York; I still believe in miracles: 1. drawing without paper, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; and Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art which was shown at a number of venues including the Vancouver Art Gallery. He is represented by Murray Guy, New York and the Haines Gallery, San Francisco. The exhibition at the Charles H. Scott Gallery is Ezawa’s first solo exhibition in Canada.
