Ethan Kramer (b. 2001, Los Angeles, CA) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. A graduate of The Cooper Union, Kramer works primarily in painting and mixed media, utilizing salvaged industrial materials as tools for his work. Drawn to dumpster found off-cuts from commercial projects, he recognizes historical abstract forms and how they migrated into everyday use. These discarded shapes carry traces of their origins in abstraction, filtered through the media landscape before being cast off as waste. Kramer's practice is an exercise in knowing what to look for in unpredictable places. He brings leftover forms back to painting for reconsideration, working with abstraction held loosely in the periphery rather than a fixed reference point.

Recent exhibitions and projects include Good Line Totally Unnecessary, Rumpus Room (2026); DUFTPYRAMIDE XXS, Parfümerie, Frankfurt am Main organized by Elisaveta Braslavskaia (2025); The White Columns Benefit Auction (2025), Felix Art Fair (2025); Open in Safari, a two-person show with Rosabel Ferber at Ladybug Gallery, Providence, RI (2024); and his thesis exhibition Waiting for a Flavor at The Cooper Union (2024). His work was also featured in Yes Way alongside Ethan Means curated by Nathan Feniak at Entrance (2023).

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