Ezra Wube
Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
Education
MFA Painting, Combined Media, Hunter College, New York, NY 2009
BFA (Honors) in Painting, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA 2004
Selected Awards & Residencies
Michael Richards Award for Visual Arts, Downtown Dinner, LMCC, New York, NY 2022
Smack Mellon Residency Program, Brooklyn, NY 2020-2021
Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY 2019
Children’s Museum of Manhattan, NY, NY 2018
NURTUREart Residency Program, Brooklyn, NY 2017
Work Space, LMCC Residency Program, New York, NY 2016
Vermont Studio Center Residency, Johnson, VT 2016
Open Sessions Program, The Drawing Center, New York, NY 2016
Wave Hill, Winter Workspace, Bronx, NY 2016
Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Emerging Artist Grant Award 2016
Triangle Arts Association Residency program, Brooklyn, NY
A.I.M., The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY 2014-2015
Swing Space, LMCC Residency Program, New York, NY 2013
Van Lier Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), Brooklyn, NY 2013
NYFA’s Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program, Brooklyn, NY 2013
The Substation Artist Residency Program, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa 2011
Château de la Napoule Artist Residency Program, Mandelieu-la-Napoule, France 2011
Solo Exhibitions
“Ezra Wube: Five Animations,” Yeh Art Gallery, New York, NY 2023
“Possible World,” Times Square Arts, New York, NY 2021
“Darkness,” Microscope Gallery, NY, NY 2021
“Ezra Wube: City Stories,” High Line, New York, NY 2020-21
“Project Junction”, commissioned, The Africa Center, NY, NY 2020
“Fulton Flow”, MTA commission, Fulton Center, NY, NY 2019
“Special Project Installation,” presented by Pioneer Works, 1-54 Art Fair, NY NY 2019
“Screen Projects: Ezra Wube,” CFA Gallery, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 2018/2019
“Tales of Home,” Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA 2017
“Future Past,” commission, The Wolfsonian-Florida International University, Miami Beach, FL 2017
“A Memory of Astoria,” commission (2nd showing), Museum of Moving Image, Queens, NY 2017
“Palindrome,” curated and presented by Art in General, kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia 2016
“Past and Present,” Demolden Video Project, Santander, Spain 2015
“This and That,” Chatou Cneai, France 2014
“A Memory of Astoria,” commission, Museum of Moving Image, Queens, NY 2014
“At the Same Moment,” Times Square Midnight Moment”, Times Square Arts, New York, NY 2013
“Memory and Process,” Addis Atelier, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2011
“Media Wall,” Oakland International Airport, Oakland CA 2011
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
“The Myth of Normal,” MassArt Art Museum (MAAM), Boston, MA
“This Place We Once Remembered,” WaveHill, Bronx, NY
2022
“Drive-Thru,” The Plaza at 300 Ashland Place, Brooklyn, NY
2021
”Home Is,” The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holoj, Israel
“The favourites,” The Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
“Darkest Before Dawn: Art in a Time of Uncertainty,” Ethan Cohen Gallery, Beacon, NY
“Imagined Communities,” 21st Contemporary Art Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil
2020
“Noir, Noir: Meditations on African Cinema and its Influence,” Prizm Art Fair, Miami, FL
“Food,” Video City, Basel, Switzerland 2020
2019
“Seeing Through,” Sugar Gallery, University of Arkansas, AR
“Layers,” American Fabrics Building, Bridgeport, CT
“Years of Solitude,” The 2nd edition of the Biennale d’Architecture d’Orléans, Orléans, France
“Medium(s),” La Box, National School of Art of Bourges, Bourges, France
“Pattern Synthesis,” 4Culture Storefront, Arcade Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA
Storefront Media at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA
2018
“Gwangui Biennale,” Grangiu, South Korea
“Art, Artists & You,” Children’s Museum of Manhattan, New York
“Feedback: Art, Africa, and the Eighties,” Iwalewahaus, University of Bayreuth, Germany
“Meditations on Place: Four Perspectives; Four African Cities,” Video ProjectRoom, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
2017
“In Practice: Works in Progress,” Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, NY
“Where Do We Stand? Two Years of Drawing with Open Sessions,” The Drawing Center, New York, NY
“Flatbushtopia,” Art Zone CG-91, Kings County Hospital, commissioned and presented by “No Longer Empty,” Brooklyn, NY
2016
“Video Studio: Meeting Points,” The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
“Planes and Corridors,” The Drawing Center, New York, NY
“Jameco Exchange,” commissioned and presented by “No Longer Empty,” Queens, NY
“Movement/History: Home,” EX NUNC, online exhibition
“The City, Faraway,” The FRAC Centre, Orléans, France
“South of the Sahara: Accelerated Urbanism in Africa,” Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
”Time is Love,” Plateau Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2015
“The 13th Biennial de Lyon,” Lyon, France
“Bronx Calling,” The Third AIM Biennial, Bronx, NY
“Wish Show,” Staten Island Art Culture Lounge, Staten Island, NY
“Face to Place,” New York Foundation for the Arts, Brooklyn, NY
“Anyway, the Wind Blows,” Brundyn Gallery, Cape Town, SA
2014
“Dak’Art 2014 Biennale,” Dakar, Senegal
“Public Video Screening,” the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA
“Set in Motion,” Purdue University, Fountain Gallery, Lafayette, IN
“Kampala Art Biennale,” Kampala, Uganda
“Still Fighting Ignorance & Intellectual Perfidy”; 5TH Marrakech Biennale, Morocco; Ben Uri Gallery & Museum, London, UK
2013
“In TRANSITion,” Brooklyn Utopias, Brooklyn, NY
“Pangea,” New York State Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
“Talking Transition,” New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
”Bodied Spaces,” Art Claims Impluse, Berlin, Germany
“ACTIVATE: Market Street,” Gallery Aferro and RBH Group, Newark, NJ
“Utopie Distribuée,” Gallery White Project, Paris, France
“Urban Research: Exploring Contemporary Urban Space,” Berlin, Germany
“Seleda,” Jazz Heritage Center’s Lush Life Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012
“The Migratory Photo Project,” Colby College, New York, NY
“Vuotociclo,” videoart show, University Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples, Italy
“PixelPops!”; Barranquilla, Colombia; Cardiff, Wales
“Distance: Contermporary Photography,” Tejas Gallery, OH
“Im[m]agine Objet d’art,” Space of Contemporary Experimental Art Quiliano, Savona, Italy
“4×4,” San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
“FILMIDEO,” Index Art Center, Newark, NJ
“ReImagine:Ourselves,” Yara Arts Group, Ukrainian Institute of America, New York, NY
2010 and earlier
“African Rhythms / American Echoes,” BMAart, Brooklyn, NY 2010
“The Happening: Kinesics as Art Object,” Rush Art Gallery, New York, NY 2009
“Reflection in Exile,” South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA 2008
“Ethiopian Millennium art show,” Howard University, Washington DC 2007
[Other]Wordly,” DCTV Firehouse, New York, NY 2006
“A Tribute to Spalding Gray,” Performance Space 122, New York, NY 2005
“Addis York Art,” Orchard St. Gallery, New York, NY 2005
Selected Group Screenings & Festivals
2022
“Crossing Signals: Animation as Documentary Form,” Union Docs, Brooklyn, NY
2021
“Echos of the Future,” United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Onion City Film Festival, Chicago, IL
2021
“Visage”, Museum of Grenoble, Grenoble, France
“Food”, Videocity, At. Pölten, Austria
FIVAC, International Video Art Festival, 9th Edition, Camagüey, Cuba
Busan International Video Art Festival, 15th Edition, Busan, South Korea
“True Fairy Tales,” Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Onion City Experimental Film & Video Festival, Chicago, IL
2019
“Dispossession, Willful Weeds, and World-Making from the Ruins,” Mumok Cinema, Vienna, Austria
“YES,” two person screening, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018
“Single Channel: Video Art Festival,” Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
“Video Box Festival,” group show, Le Carreau du Temple, Paris
2017
“Private Affair,” Urban Research, Berlin, Germany
2015
“Lost & Found,” CologneOFF, Linoleum International Animation and Media Art Festival, Ukraine
“We Must Discuss, We Must Invent,” UnionDocs, Brooklyn, NY
“Static + Noise (Volume 1),” Brooklyn Public Network
“Kloosterkino Film Festival,” Nijmegen, the Netherlands
“Total Art – Alienated Timelines II,” CologneOFF video art festival, India
2014
“Film Africa,” The Royal African Society, London, UK
“VideoBabel Festival,” Cusco, Peru
“Total Art – Movement to Imagination,” presented at CologneOFF 2014, MIVA – Muestra International de Videoarte Quito, Eqcuador; and Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
“CinéSud, 15th Festival of Short African film,” Cozes, France
“12th Mumia underground world animation festival,” Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2013
“Luxor African Film Festival,” Cairo, Egypt
“The Magmart Selection at FIVAC,” Camaguey, Cuba
“Streetvideoart in SCEAUX,” Paris , France
“FILMFEST DRESDEN International Short Film Festival,” Dresden, Germany
“Tampere Film Festival,” Tampere , Finland
“The 30th Environmental International Film Festival,” Paris, France
2012
“Colours of the Nile International Film Festival,” Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
“The Libelula Animation Festival,” Lloret de Mar, Spain
“The 16th International Video Festival VIDEOMEDEJA,” Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
“Animation Screenings,” Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
”Ezra Wube animation Shorts,” Community Television of Santa Cruz County, CA
“Now & After’12,” Video Art Festival,” Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
“AnimateCOLOGNE,” Cologne Art & Animation Festival, Museum for experimental art, Mexico City, Mexico
“Roof Top Films,” Brooklyn, NY
“Magmart International Video Art Festival,” Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Naples, Italy
“The Santa Fe International New Media Festival,” Santa Fe, New Mexico
“ARTchSO Africa video art,” Rennes, France
“AMOA-Arthouse Screen Projects,” Austin, TX
”4×4,” San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
“FILMIDEO,” Index Art Center, Newark, NJ
“ReImagine:Ourselves,” Yara Arts Group, Ukrainian Institute of America, New York, NY
2011
“Art & The City: Mirror1,” CologneOFF 2011; Beirut, Lebanon; Rome, Italy; Marrakech, Morocco; TimiShort – Film Festival, Timisoara, Romania
“Art & the City: A Gesture of Generosity,” CologeOFF 2011 Madrid, Spain
“Videoart from Africa,” CologneOFF 2011; Mexico City, Mexico; Riga, Latvia
“Swedenborg Short Film Festival,” London, UK
“Istanbul Animation Festival,” Istanbul, Turkey
“One Minute Africa,” nominated “Where History Begins, Cairo, Egypt
“International Black Film Festival,” Nashville, TN
“Africa in Motion Film Festival,” Edinburgh, Scotland
“Silicon Valley African Film Festival,” Mountain View, CA
“Ottawa Animation Festival,” Ottawa, Canada
“Stuttgart animation festival,” Stuttgart, Germany
Selected Artist Talks & Presentations
“Visiting Artist”, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Irvine, CA 2023
“Visiting Artist”, Animated Alchemy, New York Univeristy, NY, 2023
“Time and Place No Longer Singular: Ezra Wube in conversation w/ Henone Girma,” organized by The Africa Center in partnership w/ The Newark Museum of Art (online) 2022
“Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Ezra Wube,” The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 2022
“Artist Talk: Ezra Wube,” Microscope Gallery, New York, NY (online) 2021
“Artist Talk”, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (online) 2021
“Visiting Artist”, Experimental Animation, California Institute of the Arts (online), Valencia, CA 2020
“SVA Practice Lecture Series”, The School of Visual Arts, (online) NY, NY 2020
“Between here and there”, panel organized by Pioneer Works, 1-54 Art Fair, New York, NY 2019
Visiting Artist, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, MA 2017
“Critical Theory Seminar in Contemporary Art”, Visiting Artist Talk, Columbia University, NY, NY 2016
Visiting Scholar, New York University, New York, NY 2016
“Workshop Merkato”, Visiting Artist Talk, Columbia University, New York, NY 2015
Visiting Artist, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont 2015
“Cross Disciplines”, Visiting Artist Talk, Addis Ababa University of Art, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2014
“Stop-action Animation”, Introduction to Animation Guest Lecture, UCSC, CA 2012
“Interdisciplinary Evenings: Memory and Process”, Addis Atlier, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2011
Tufts University, Medford, MA 2011
“Ethiopian Story Collection Project”, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA 2011