Michael Ezra (b. 1972) investigates how complementary opposites achieve equilibrium within the human figure. His practice spans photography and sculpture, guided by a single organizing principle examined across twenty-five years of systematic work.

Ezra studied Theoretical Physics and Painting at Tbilisi State University and worked professionally as a software architect. These backgrounds converge in his work: intuition leads the investigation, recognizing configurations where equilibrium emerges; scientific and computational thinking provides the framework for organizing those recognitions into systematic methodology.

Originally aspiring to sculpture — an ambition kindled by Irving Stone’s The Agony and the Ecstasy — Ezra began instead with photography. In 1999 he established Figurative Structures, a photographic methodology treating the body as a structural variable. Over seven series, the work systematically examined how opposing qualities organize into equilibrium — testing the principle under progressively extreme conditions.

Installation of Figurative Structures, 2016.

In 2025, Ezra returned to sculpture with the Stillness, Held series, employing traditional hand-modeling and casting. The transition introduces a critical new constraint: time. Where photography captures equilibrium at the moment of its occurrence, sculpture must sustain it — in cast mass, under gravitational pull, across indefinite duration. The photographic investigation and the sculptural work examine the same principle under different conditions, each testing what the other cannot.

His work has been exhibited internationally and is held in private collections across ten countries. Ezra lives and works in New York.

Studio production of Stillness, Held: Tacit, 2025.