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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, and Time Square Arts Midnight Moment, NY. His residencies, commissions, and awards include The High Line, NY, NY; Education Lab, Zuckerman Institute, Columbia University, NY, NY; 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, NY, NY; Open Sessions Program, The Drawing Center, NY, NY; The Africa Center, NY, 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 he has organized the Addis Video Art Festival in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.