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

ezell’s solo exhibition, Destruction Is and Is Not Forever, debuted last summer in Latvia. In 2026, they participated in Hagar Ophir’s Bound with the Living, curated for the Venice Biennale’s In Minor Keys. ezell will be the artist-in-residence at the University of Central Arkansas in Fall 2026 and a fellow at the Kala Art Institute in 2027.

Their poems and essays have been published in The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Hand Papermaking Magazine, among others. Brief updates can be found on their newsletter. They can be reached via email.