Kota Ezawa was born in Cologne, Germany, and lives and works in San Francisco, USA. He studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, San Francisco Art Institute and Stanford University. He has shown extensively internationally.

Group exhibitions and screenings include Denver Art Museum, San Franciso MOMA, Media Art Biennial, Seoul, PKM Gallery, Beijing, EMAF, Osnabruck, The Artists’ Cinema, frieze Art Fair. Solo exhibitions include Albright-Knox, Buffalo, New York, Wexner Centre, Columbus, Ohio, Mendes Wood, Sao Paulo. He is represented by Haines Gallery, San Francisco and Murray Guy, New York.