Hope Ezcurra (she/her) is an interdisciplinary self taught artist, born in Miami, Florida and raised in San Diego, California. She studied Art History and International Business at CSUDH and now lives in Long Beach.

Her practice is primarily environmentally focused assemblage with a memento mori aesthetic. Ezcurra’s work explores the venality of environmental degradation caused by our consumerist society while contrasting it to the beauty and elegance of ecological entropy. Her work uses the lens of visual art to examine how modern ecological issues intersects with racial inequalities, colonialism, and class disparities while maintaining a death positive perspective.

She is drawn to creating macabre imagery in part because of its universality; entropy and death is both what links all life together and tears it apart. Her artwork speaks to the terminal elegance of life and fragility of nature.

She deeply believes in the importance of equitable access to the arts and does her best incorporate democratic public engament into her projects.

Her curatorial projects and art work are a love letter to the rust and stardust in all of us.