b. Santa Ana, CA; Lives and works in Metro Detroit, MI.

Evan Mazellan’s paintings grapple with privacy, injury, and ownership, lifting images from news media, personal photos, and belongings in and around the studio. Familiar images take on new meaning as they are fragmented and re-assembled into a pictorial space that highlights the permanence found in media archiving and mass production. Mazellan explores the sought-after transformation found in restoration and medical surgery, where the pursuit of enhancement can swing between helping and harming, a process prone to unexpected outcomes and mishaps.

Mazellan earned his MFA in painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI in 2024, and has since been recognized with prestigious awards, including the Cranbrook Art Museum Purchase Award (2024) and the Meredith Beau and Scott Beau Materials Fund (2023). Mazellan’s solo shows include Massey Klein Gallery in New York, NY (2022); Bunker East and Bunker West, curated by John Garcia in Rockaway, NY and Malibu, CA (2021); and in two-person exhibitions with Dot Jackson at Mouse Gallery in Detroit, MI (2024); Walker Walls Tarver at Passageway Gallery at the Cranbrook Academy of Art (2022); and Becca Shmuluvitz at Gallery Diorama in Brooklyn, NY (2021). His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Cranbrook Art Museum (2024); Art Clvb, Detroit, MI (2024); Lisa Boudet, Paris, France (2023); the Rockaway Artist Alliance, Rockaway, NY (2021); and Shrine Gallery in New York City (2021). Mazellan and his paintings have been published in print and online publications, including Architectural Digest, Artsy, Two Coats of Paint, Say Who, and Overstandard.