emet ezell (1995) is a visual artist and writer based in Berlin, Germany. Their practice explores themes of devotion, dispossession, ruin, and return. Trained under Polish typographer Robert Sawa, ezell works with the letter as the visual and tactile unit of composition. They remain committed to handmade paper and print.

In 2024, ezell was awarded the literature stipend from the Berlin Senatsverwaltung for their monograph Wretched Heaven, recently shortlisted for publication by Book Works. Past residencies include Djerassi Resident Artist’s Program, Pedvāle International Art Park, and the Vermont Studio Center. ezell has received fellowships and funding from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New Jewish Culture Fellowship, Latvian Reparations Fund, and the European Comission for Culture and Creativity. Winner of the 2021 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Poetry Prize, their writing has been featured in The American Poetry Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Poetry Daily, and Hand Papermaking Magazine, among other arts-based publications.

Last summer, ezell’s solo exhibition, Destruction Is and Is Not Forever, debuted in Sabile, Latvia. They also performed in the 61st Venice Beinnale as part of the project “Bound with the Living,” curated by Koyo Kouoh for In Minor Keys. ezell will be artist-in-residence at the University of Central Arkansas later this fall.

The artist does not use social media; brief updates can be found on their newsletter.

mail: emet dot ezell at gmail.com