Ezra Wube (born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) is a cross-disciplinary artist who lives and works in New York. His works encompass video, drawing, painting, and installations. His work explores experiences of mobility, the malleability of time and place, and the dialogical tensions between "here" and "there", a confluence of prior and current influences on social idealism, pluralism, and autonomy. His exhibitions include the 21st Contemporary Art Biennial. Sesc_Videobrasil, Brazil; The 2nd edition of the Biennale d’Architecture d’Orléans, France; “Gwangju Biennale”, Gwangju, South Korea; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, Art in General, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia; The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; “Dak’Art Biennale”, Dakar, Senegal, The High Line, and Time Square Arts Midnight Moment, NY. His residencies, commissions, and awards include Michael Richards Visual Arts Award, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY, NY, Smack Mellon Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY; Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY; Work Space, LMCC Residency Program, New York, NY; Open Sessions Program, The Drawing Center, New York, NY; The Africa Center, NY; The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, NY; Museum of the Moving Images, Queens, NY; Rema Hort Mann Foundation; the Triangle Arts Association Residency, Brooklyn, NY and The Substation Artist Residency Program, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Since 2015 Ezra has organized the Addis Video Art Festival in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
"Fulton Center’s Award-Winning Display Network Launches Latest NYC-Themed Digital Art Piece"
"MTA ArMTA Arts & Design Unveils New Digital Artwork “Fulton Flow” Now on Display at Fulton Transit Center"
"Interview with Ezra Wube", The Aestheticized, Kisito Assangni
"Animation, Fabrication, Photography", Page 63-68, Paula Callus
"Je poussais la lourde porte en bois » du Musée Africain pour voir « les Anciens et les Modernes"
"Interview with Ezra Wube", Anti-Herion Chic
"Fragmented Conformism", echo gone wrong
"Painting in Motion", Wave Hill Blog
"Migrant image of a changing world", art territory
"NYFA:Currents Featured Artist Ezra Wube"
"VideoFocus, Ezra Wube"
"Astoria uncovered in animated video piece", Tess McRae, Queens Chronicle
"LandEscape, Art Review: Ezra Wube"
"VIP – VideoChannel Interview Project", CologneOFF
"Quick Quotes: Ezra Wube", FLEFF
"CHANCE ENCOUNTERS#12: Ezra Wube", OPERATORANNA
"Absence: Ezra Wube", Gallery Temenos
"July featured artist: Ezra Wube", 2opcollective.Wordpress
"Hunter College 2009 MFA thesis exhibition continues", James Wagner
"An Artist’s Journey, Freeze-Framed", By Rochana Rapkins