EZRA KATZ ART GALLERY
Ezra Katz is an impressionist painter based in Todos Santos, Baja California Sur. Born in Texas and raised in La Paz, Katz draws on a lifelong connection to the region’s landscapes and people. His early exposure to art came through visiting master painters from Mexico City, who spent summers teaching in his family home. This early training shaped a deep, intuitive approach to painting, which later evolved through formal study in Fine Art in California. His work is rooted in observation, memory, and a desire to capture the essence of everyday life in Baja.
Over the past three decades, Katz has developed a personal visual language that reflects the shifting light and understated beauty of the peninsula.
From quiet beach scenes and rural fields to portraits of roosters, cowboys, and towns like El Triunfo, his paintings evoke the feeling of Baja as much as they depict it.
Works such as Starry Night Meets Desert Ocean and Cactus and Sailboat on the Water reflect Katz’s ongoing exploration of mood, atmosphere, and movement.
The former nods playfully to van Gogh’s Starry Night, reimagined through the lens of Baja’s coastline and desert flora. The latter draws comparisons to Monet’s studies of water and reflection. Like the Impressionist masters, Katz is less concerned with replication than with capturing the fleeting soul of a scene — the way light shifts, the air feels, or memory softens the edges of reality.
His paintings have entered both private and public collections, including commissions for figures such as Michael Dell and Terry Shough. In Cabo San Lucas, Katz created murals for well-known venues like Morgan’s and Tequila, contributing to the region’s cultural identity through large-scale public works. Though grounded in the local environment, his paintings possess a cosmopolitan sensibility — a reflection of his dual heritage and time spent between northern California and Mexico.
Today, Ezra Katz continues to paint from his studio in Todos Santos, where his gallery is located on the town’s main street. His work captures the quiet poetry of Baja California Sur: a rooster perched on a sunlit fence, a wave breaking beneath a blue sky, a pickup truck carrying a horse down a main road. More than picturesque views, these images serve as visual stories — layered, atmospheric, and deeply tied to place. In this way, Katz contributes to a living artistic tradition, revealing how light, land, and memory come together on canvas.
