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

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

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

email: emet dot ezell at gmail.com