International Academy of Ceramics

International Academy of Ceramics The International Academy of Ceramics is the leading organisation representing the interests of professionals in the field of ceramics worldwide.

The International Academy of Ceramics is the main organisation representing the interests of ceramists worldwide. Its membership consists primarily of individual makers, supported by writers and critics, private collectors, museumand gallery curators, educational institutions and ceramic centres. L’Académie Internationale de la Céramique est la seule association représentant les intérêts des céram

istes du monde entier. Ses membres sont principalement des artistes individuels soutenus par des écrivains, des conservateurs de musée et directeurs de galerie ainsi que des collectionneurs privés.

In 2025, the IAC welcomed over 250 new members from 59 countries around the world. These new members are primarily indiv...
01/09/2026

In 2025, the IAC welcomed over 250 new members from 59 countries around the world. These new members are primarily individual artists, alongside galleries, museums, ceramic centres, schools, curators, and educators—all united by a shared dedication to advancing the field of ceramics.

We’re introducing some of these new members, who, together, represent an inspiring cross-section of today’s outstanding ceramic talent. We look forward to getting to know all or our new members and extend a warm welcome to each of them to the IAC.

Hernán Dario Vargas is an Argentine musician and ceramic artist whose practice brings visual art, sound, and clay into a shared field of experimentation. For more than two decades, he has created ceramic instruments, interactive sound sculptures, and ensembles that reveal clay as a resonant body. Through the interdisciplinary project Suena Barro, he combines craftsmanship, performance, education, and collective creation.

Image: "Espititu" (2023) by Hernán Dario Vargas, Argentina

In 2025, the IAC welcomed over 250 new members from 59 countries around the world. These new members are primarily indiv...
27/08/2026

In 2025, the IAC welcomed over 250 new members from 59 countries around the world. These new members are primarily individual artists, alongside galleries, museums, ceramic centres, schools, curators, and educators—all united by a shared dedication to advancing the field of ceramics.

We’re introducing some of these new members, who, together, represent an inspiring cross-section of today’s outstanding ceramic talent. We look forward to getting to know all or our new members and extend a warm welcome to each of them to the IAC.

Zizipho Poswa is a Cape Town-based artist whose monumental ceramic and bronze sculptures celebrate African womanhood and the matriarchal traditions of Xhosa culture. Moving between figuration and abstraction, her bold anthropomorphic totems draw on rituals, hairstyles, adornment, and women’s embodied strength. Through scale, colour, and symbolic form, she transforms personal and cultural histories into powerful contemporary monuments.

Image: "Akan" (2024) by Zizipho Poswa, South Africa

In 2025, the IAC welcomed over 250 new members from 59 countries around the world. These new members are primarily indiv...
25/08/2026

In 2025, the IAC welcomed over 250 new members from 59 countries around the world. These new members are primarily individual artists, alongside galleries, museums, ceramic centres, schools, curators, and educators—all united by a shared dedication to advancing the field of ceramics.

We’re introducing some of these new members, who, together, represent an inspiring cross-section of today’s outstanding ceramic talent. We look forward to getting to know all or our new members and extend a warm welcome to each of them to the IAC.

Digby Hoets is a South African ceramic artist whose practice has centred for more than five decades on large, visually cohesive vessels. Working through repetition, raw glazing, and high-temperature reduction firing, he develops warm, natural surfaces informed by the African environment. Subtle variations within apparently uniform groups give each vessel an individual presence, revealing the humanity and unpredictability of a deeply refined process.

Image: "A pair of large jars in a dry ash glaze" (2017) by Digby Hoets, South Africa

Meet the awardees of the IAC Awards 2026, presented as part of the IAC Members Exhibition “Inheritance and Innovation“ a...
24/08/2026

Meet the awardees of the IAC Awards 2026, presented as part of the IAC Members Exhibition “Inheritance and Innovation“ at Jingdezhen 2026.

🏺 Heritage Excellence Award – Tradition Reloaded
Keka Ruiz-Tagle, Chile

🌍 Award for Cultural Exchange – Global Vibes
Xavier Monsalvatje, Spain

✨ Emerging Voice Award – Fresh Drop
Janina Myronowa, Poland

Through three distinct perspectives, the IAC Awards celebrate ceramic practices that engage with heritage, cultural exchange and emerging artistic voices.

The jury for the 2026 IAC Awards: Monika Gass, Elaine Henry, Hana Novotna, Misun Rheem and Wan Liya.

Congratulations to all three awardees!

23/08/2026

Step inside Shaping Global Masterpieces with IAC member Adil Writer, India.

More than a collection of artworks, the book offers an immersion into the studios, techniques and creative processes of 35 IAC artists from around the world.

Through personal insights and practical knowledge, the featured artists share how their works are developed, shaped and brought to life.

Discover Adil Writer’s contribution alongside the practices and expertise of 34 other IAC artists in Shaping Global Masterpieces.

Available on Amazon. Find the link in our bio.

In 2025, the IAC welcomed over 250 new members from 59 countries around the world. These new members are primarily indiv...
20/08/2026

In 2025, the IAC welcomed over 250 new members from 59 countries around the world. These new members are primarily individual artists, alongside galleries, museums, ceramic centres, schools, curators, and educators—all united by a shared dedication to advancing the field of ceramics.

We’re introducing some of these new members, who, together, represent an inspiring cross-section of today’s outstanding ceramic talent. We look forward to getting to know all or our new members and extend a warm welcome to each of them to the IAC.

Karlien van Rooyen is a South African ceramic sculptor whose practice is shaped by a background in neuroscience, environmental activism, and personal transformation. Drawing on wild landscapes and experiences of frontline resistance, she explores resilience, trauma, and healing through clay. Her works hold fragility and strength in tension, reflecting on the entanglement of the human condition with the natural world.

Image: "Kalahari Venus" (2024) by Karlien van Rooyen, South Africa

In 2025, the IAC welcomed over 250 new members from 59 countries around the world. These new members are primarily indiv...
18/08/2026

In 2025, the IAC welcomed over 250 new members from 59 countries around the world. These new members are primarily individual artists, alongside galleries, museums, ceramic centres, schools, curators, and educators—all united by a shared dedication to advancing the field of ceramics.

We’re introducing some of these new members, who, together, represent an inspiring cross-section of today’s outstanding ceramic talent. We look forward to getting to know all or our new members and extend a warm welcome to each of them to the IAC.

Anina Major is a Bahamian visual artist whose practice explores the relationship between identity, displacement, and place. Working through the language of craft, she reclaims familiar forms and relocates culturally significant objects to negotiate the experience of making a home away from one’s birthplace. Her sculptures bring nostalgia and belonging into dialogue, transforming personal and collective memory into material form.

Image: "Plait No. 00205042021" (2021) by Anina Major, Bahamas

In 2025, the IAC welcomed over 250 new members from 59 countries around the world. These new members are primarily indiv...
13/08/2026

In 2025, the IAC welcomed over 250 new members from 59 countries around the world. These new members are primarily individual artists, alongside galleries, museums, ceramic centres, schools, curators, and educators—all united by a shared dedication to advancing the field of ceramics.

We’re introducing some of these new members, who, together, represent an inspiring cross-section of today’s outstanding ceramic talent. We look forward to getting to know all or our new members and extend a warm welcome to each of them to the IAC.

Thomas Schmidt is a United States-based ceramic artist whose practice explores the shifting relationship between craft, materiality, and digital technology. Using 3D scanning, printing, mould-making, and casting alongside traditional ceramic processes, he questions distinctions between the handmade and the digital, the natural and the artificial, and the physical and the virtual. His work examines how technology reshapes both materials and our perception of touch, surface, and presence.

Image: "Stacked Vase Series" (2024) by Thomas Schmidt, United States

In 2025, the IAC welcomed over 250 new members from 59 countries around the world. These new members are primarily indiv...
11/08/2026

In 2025, the IAC welcomed over 250 new members from 59 countries around the world. These new members are primarily individual artists, alongside galleries, museums, ceramic centres, schools, curators, and educators—all united by a shared dedication to advancing the field of ceramics.

We’re introducing some of these new members, who, together, represent an inspiring cross-section of today’s outstanding ceramic talent. We look forward to getting to know all or our new members and extend a warm welcome to each of them to the IAC.

Fan JI is a Chinese ceramic artist whose practice explores imagined relationships between nature, industry, and humanity in the Anthropocene. Combining ceramic and non-ceramic materials, the artist creates speculative forms that evoke future relics and unseen natural phenomena. These material symbioses challenge human-centred perspectives and reflect on interconnectedness, mutation, and regeneration.

Image: "Oscillating" (2024) by Fan JI, China

In 2025, the IAC welcomed over 250 new members from 59 countries around the world. These new members are primarily indiv...
06/08/2026

In 2025, the IAC welcomed over 250 new members from 59 countries around the world. These new members are primarily individual artists, alongside galleries, museums, ceramic centres, schools, curators, and educators—all united by a shared dedication to advancing the field of ceramics.

We’re introducing some of these new members, who, together, represent an inspiring cross-section of today’s outstanding ceramic talent. We look forward to getting to know all or our new members and extend a warm welcome to each of them to the IAC.

Hyeonyoung Kim is a Seoul-based ceramic artist whose work explores coincidence, inevitability, and love through the material behaviour of clay. She translates unexpected events from everyday life into forms shaped by both intention and accident, allowing the material to appear as an active participant in the creative process. Her practice gives clay a sense of agency, embracing unpredictability as a source of meaning.

Image: "Autonomic drugs series" (2020) by Hyeonyoung Kim, Republic of Korea

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