Kathy Erteman

Kathy Erteman is a New York–based ceramic artist who works between studios in New York City and the Hudson Valley. With a studio practice spanning more than four decades, she creates vessels, wall-mounted works, and installations. Her work combines technical precision with a modernist sensibility, using a reductive formal language activated by abstract surface imagery and textured, energetic finishes.

Erteman is a full-time studio artist represented by Hostler Burrows Gallery. Her work has been exhibited widely in the United States and internationally, and is held in public and private collections including the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Taipei Museum of Fine Arts, and the Icheon World Ceramic Museum. She has also undertaken design commissions for companies including Tiffany and Crate & Barrel.

She has taught ceramics at Greenwich House Pottery in New York City since 1996 and has been involved in long-term cultural exchange and design consultancy projects in Yunnan, China, working with Nixi Tibetan potters through programs supported by Aid to Artisans, the U.S. Department of State, and the Fulbright Professional Fellows Exchange Program.

Erteman received her BFA in ceramics from California State University, Long Beach, and completed undergraduate studies at UCLA. Early in her career, she worked with Judy Chicago on The Dinner Party, an experience that remains a formative point in her professional trajectory.

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