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Jay Ezra Nayssan

Jay Ezra Nayssan is the founder and director of Del Vaz Projects, Los Angeles. He is currently organizing the exhibition ‘Technologies of the Self’ with artists Max Hooper Schneider, Tetsumi Kudo, Lucas Samaras and Paul Thek, which will open at Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, in February. He lives in Los Angeles. 

Frieze Los Angeles
Jay Ezra Nayssan’s Top 5 Picks from Frieze Los Angeles Viewing Room 2024

The curator and founder of Del Vaz Projects chooses a remarkable Lee Bontecou, a mystical piece by Eugenia P. Butler and a work he says is “yearning and desirous to be encountered”

BY Jay Ezra Nayssan |
Frieze Los Angeles
Did Mike Kelley Predict the Isolation of the Internet?

In an exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles that pairs Kelley with contemporary voices, curator Jay Ezra Nayssan explores the late American artist’s shades of loneliness

BY Matthew McLean AND Jay Ezra Nayssan |
Frieze Los Angeles , Frieze Week Magazine , Videos
‘Against the Edge’ Tells New Stories About the Westside

Jay Ezra Nayssan shares insights into the Frieze Projects program putting contemporary art in dialogue with cultural sites across Santa Monica and beyond

BY Jay Ezra Nayssan |
Frieze Los Angeles , News
Presenting Tony Cokes: 'So to Speak' at Beyond Baroque

Curator Jay Ezra Nayssan introduces Cokes's project and the history of this avant-garde institution, featuring in Against the Edge for Frieze Los Angeles 2023

BY Jay Ezra Nayssan |
Features , Roundtables
A Brief History of the LA House Gallery

Artists and writers reflect on domestic exhibition spaces in Los Angeles, from 1940 to the present

BY Sam Parker, Jonathan Griffin, Taylor Renee Aldridge, Evan Moffitt, Dave Muller, Fritz Haeg, Eve Fowler, Asha Schechter AND Jay Ezra Nayssan |