emet ezell (b. 1995, Texas, USA) is a research-based artist living and working in Berlin, Germany. Trained by Polish typographer Robert Sawa, ezell’s studio practice spans poetry, handmade paper, performance, and print. They are currently an artist fellow in the New Jewish Culture Fellowship.

ezell’s creative work has been generously supported by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the European Commission for Culture and Creativity, the Berlin Senate, Pedvāle Open Air Art Museum, Vermont Studio Center, and Djerassi Resident Artist’s Program, among many others. Winner of the 2021 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Poetry Prize, ezell’s writing has been featured in The American Poetry Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Hand Papermaking Magazine, and VORTEXT, and their poems have been translated into Latvian, German, Hebrew, and Polish. ezell’s solo-exhibition, “Destruction Is and Is Not Forever,” debuted last summer at the Sabile Arts and Culture Center in Latvia.

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All photographs courtesy of Ben Mönks


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