Ezra Moth is an interdisciplinary artist based in NYC. Their work lives at the intersection of ecology and queer liberation. Using synthetic biology, sculpture, and collaborating with organisms like algae, plants, fungi and bacteria. Hypothetical agriculture interventions and performance artworks become methods of storytelling, reinforced by laboratory research. Moth holds an MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a BS in biology and sustainable agriculture. Part mad scientist, part community farmer, and part drag persona, their art practice ricochets from sublime hopefulness to post-apocalyptic despair, presenting radical alternatives to the climate catastrophe while centering nonbinary and nonhuman perspectives.
The artwork grows and changes. It dies. It evaporates. Most importantly, it attempts to change the lived realities of their community. Utilizing synthetic biology and gardening as methods to provide, offer mutual aid, and build a safer future for queer and trans individuals.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
§ Megafauna (these desperate earthly forms). Real Art Ways, solo exhibition. Hartford, CT. 2025
§ Westerlies II. Queens Botanical Garden, public art commission in the QBG farm. Queens, NY. 2024.
§ Westerlies. Noosphere Arts’ site specific, year-long, public art commission in the meadow at Kingsland Wildflowers. Brooklyn, NY. 2023
§ Rooftop Salon, at Mothership NYC. Group performance event. Brooklyn, NY. 2022
§ The Commons. As part of the Sustainable Art Show, the Pfizer Building, group show with Materials for the Arts. Brooklyn, NY. 2022
§ Soil Specs. Irving Square Park, public outdoor exhibition with the Human Impact Institute. Brooklyn, NY. 2021
§ Black Mayonnaise and Bio-Mutants. Ortega y Gasset Projects, solo exhibition. Brooklyn, NY. 2021
§ Dredge / Putrid Puddles. The Burrow Gallery, solo exhibition. Brooklyn, NY. 2020
§ Bloomsbury Festival. Unsightly Drag. Chapel Playhouse, group performance. London, UK. 2019
§ Loam Love. As part of Thessaloniki Queer Arts Festival. Solo performance at the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and MOMus Experimental Centre for the Arts, group show. Thessaloniki, Greece. 2019
§ Creative Collision III. Tate Modern, with Trinity Laban, group performance event. London, UK. 2019
§ Ecofutures Festival London, Cuntemporary. Deep Trash: Eco Trash. Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, group show. London, UK. 2019
§ Extinction Rebellion. Oxford Circus Action. London, UK. 2019
§ Art&Science. Milton Art Gallery, St. Paul’s, group show. London, UK. 2019
§ Utopia Though Nostalgia. Koppel Project Hive, solo performance, group show. London, UK. 2019
§ Extinction Rebellion. “Declaration of Rebellion”, “Rebellion Day”, “Rebellion Day 2.” Action in London, UK. 2018
§ Queers Read This. Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), group performance event. London, UK. 2018
§ Yggdrasil, Axis Mundi. St. James Hatcham Church, group show. London, UK. 2018
§ Liminality [Cacophony]. With Psychosonic Action Lab, Gallery 46 Whitechapel, group show. London, UK. 2018
§ Beyond the Standard Model. Almanac Projects, group show. London, UK. 2018
§ Conspiracy of the Real. Tender Pixel Gallery, group show. London, UK. 2018
§ [[Everyone’s asking if I’m ok / No one’s asking if I’m ok]]. With the Icing Room project, group show. London, UK. 2018
§ Mars Membrane. The Change Room, solo show. London, UK. 2018
§ OPENLAB. Chisenhale Dance Space, group performance. London, UK. 2017
§ Structures of Recollection and Perseverance, Kunstraum Gallery, group performance event. London, UK. 2017
§ Queer Art(ists) NOW. The Mill Co. Rose Lipman building, group show. London, UK. 2017
§ Deptford X. Group show. London, UK. 2017
§ Nervous as a Cat in a Room Full of Rocking Chairs. Seminar Room, group show. London, UK. 2017
§ There is an Ocean on the Moon. Arebyte Gallery, group show. London, UK. 2017
§ Deptford Open Studios, group Show. London, UK. 2017
§ Enclave Series. Enclave Gallery, group show. London, UK. 2017
§ Stratus. Broad St Gallery, solo show. Hartford, CT USA. 2016
§ This Uncommon Language. VAIS Gallery, solo show. Storrs, CT USA. 2015
§ Stray Light. VAIS gallery, solo show. Storrs, CT USA. 2014
§ As Is. Artspace Windham, 4-person show. Willimantic, CT USA. 2014