Ceramics Now Magazine is a leading digital publication dedicated to contemporary ceramics, offering a curated selection of in-depth articles, artist profiles, news, and exhibition highlights from around the world—all in an ad-free format. Each issue, spanning 100-120 pages, provides insights into the latest trends, perspectives, and critical discussions that shape the field. Published monthly, with breaks in December and August, the magazine is a go-to resource for staying connected with the ceramics community.
Ceramics Now Magazine – October 2026 (Issue 23)
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Ceramics Now Magazine Issue 23 (October 2026) features Bianca MacPherson’s work on the cover. Rooted in personal and collective histories, MacPherson’s ceramic sculptures explore identity, perception, memory, and the experience of existing between worlds. Through abstraction, her forms move between recognition and ambiguity, inviting viewers to question how assumptions and histories shape what we see.
This issue brings together essays and reviews that reflect on transformation, material memory, and the connections between body, clay, and the natural world. Sarah Walko writes on Roxanne Jackson’s Ovum at The Pit, Los Angeles, exploring a world of myth, birth, death, and metamorphosis. Cammi Climaco reviews the summer ceramics exhibitions at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY, while Anisio Veloso reflects on Edmund de Waal’s rain diary exhibition at Gana Art Center, Seoul. Graham Feyl reviews E. Saffronia Downing’s Call for Clay, a publication that brought together collected samples of wild clay and the personal stories attached to them. Beth Williamson writes on Aneta Regel’s exhibition at Sarah Myerscough Gallery, tracing the visceral force of material, surface, and form.
This issue presents featured artists Bianca MacPherson, Deirdre McLoughlin, Steven Edwards, Anemoon On Fire, and Lydia SooJin Park.
Featured exhibitions include Hermann Grüneberg at Galerie Herold, Hamburg; Suspending the ephemeral at Galerie Terra Viva, Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie; Kiyomizu Rokubei at Dai Ichi Arts, New York; Modernity and Opulence at the Jewish Museum, New York City; tierra at Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles; and Joël Brodovsky-Adams at Superhouse, New York.
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Ceramics Now Magazine – September 2026 (Issue 22)
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Ceramics Now Magazine Issue 22 (September 2026) features the work of Ross Junior Owusu on the cover. Owusu works across ceramics, performance, and assemblage to explore identity, migration, and cultural memory, considering how identities are carried, reshaped, and reconstructed across shifting geographies.
This issue brings together essays, reviews, and reports that explore ceramics through biennials, figuration, material histories, and expanded approaches to form. Olivia Fero writes on Jingdezhen in The City That Makes, reflecting on one of the world’s most important ceramic centers. Unu Sohn reviews Kneaded. Shaped. Fired., the 47th Tendencies Exhibition, while Stephen F. Eisenman reflects on the ceramics of Charles Bound. Amy Gogarty’s essay considers how ceramic form moves toward more open spatial and conceptual possibilities, and Julia Ellen Lancaster reports from Delft in Ceramic Conversations, looking at Common Ground, Delft Market Days, and the Urban Blue exhibition. Ashley Thorpe reviews Lancaster’s own liminal sculptures in Phantasms and Frequencies.
This issue presents featured artists Ross Junior Owusu, Astrid Sleire, Heide Nonnenmacher, and Kirsten Spuijbroek.
The exhibitions section highlights Anna Maria Maiolino at MAAT, Lisbon; Fractured Foundations: 250 Years of American History at the American Museum of Ceramic Art; Paolo Porelli and Mattia Vernocchi at Stadtmuseum Siegburg; Gabriel Chaile at Whitechapel Gallery, London; Anna Milczanowska at Craftica Gallery, Warsaw; and Mia Akrap at TROTOAR Gallery, Zagreb.
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Ceramics Now Magazine – July 2026 (Issue 21)
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Ceramics Now Magazine Issue 21 (July 2026) features the work of Nancy Bowen on the cover, shown in her exhibition From A to Z and the Bodies In Between at Nunu Fine Art, New York. Working like an artist-archaeologist, Bowen combines found materials, ceramics, ornament, and archival texts to reimagine language, history, and the female body.
This issue brings together essays and reviews that explore figuration, the relationship between vessel and sculpture, and ceramics in relation to land, history, and planetary imagination. Tana West examines clay, figuration, and fragmented bodies in Refigured at County Hall Pottery, while Katherina Perlongo reflects on the dialogue between vessel and sculpture in the GEFÄSS / SKULPTUR 4 exhibition at the GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts in Leipzig. In Beautiful Things After Empire, Anisio Veloso considers Rich Miller’s work through the lens of beauty, history, and the legacies of empire. Alice Fyles offers a studio visit that questions the rules, classifications, and material expectations that shape ceramic making. The issue also features a preview of the Gyeonggi Ceramics Biennale 2026, Earth Makes, exploring clay, land, and planetary imagination in South Korea’s leading ceramics biennale.
This issue presents featured artists Magdolene Dykstra, Chryssa Kotoula, Margaux Vié, and Jihyun Kim.
The exhibitions section also highlights RESPONS! Norwegian Ceramics 1975-2026 at the Center for Ceramic Art Ringebu; Moon Jar; An Axis at Gallery LNL and the Korean Cultural Centre, Sydney; Chidi Ukwuoma at Matter Studio Gallery, Los Angeles; Subconscious Surfaced at Moderne Gallery, Philadelphia; and For Want of a Nail, the Golden Shoe was Lost at Studio Orta – Les Moulins, Boissy-Le-Châtel.
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Ceramics Now Magazine – June 2026 (Issue 20)
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Ceramics Now Magazine Issue 20 (June 2026) features the work of Eva Zethraeus on the cover. Working primarily in porcelain, Zethraeus creates intricate biomorphic sculptures shaped by nature, growth, and transformation, where repetition and variation suggest organic systems in constant change.
This issue brings together essays, interviews, and reviews that reflect on artistic dialogue and the evolving relationship between vessel, sculpture, and narrative. Bronaċ Ferran speaks with Miquel Barceló, tracing connections between art history, materiality, and contemporary practice. Olivia Fero explores the shifting boundaries between vessel, sculpture, and fiction, while Anne-Marie Dehon uncovers the story of a forgotten clay recipe and its material legacy. Jennifer Zwilling writes on American Crib: What’s Happening? by Roberto Lugo, a Radical Americana exhibition at The Clay Studio. Heidi McKenzie examines The Forgotten Man, a reflection on memory, accountability, and the ways artists use clay to reckon with difficult histories.
This issue presents featured artists Eva Zethraeus, Lauren Kalman, Shinhye You, Mingshu Li, and Anca Ion.
The exhibitions section highlights Claire Curneen: Between my finger and my thumb at Ruthin Craft Centre, Ruthin; Shaping Clay: Women artists in contemporary Japanese ceramics at Dai Ichi Arts, New York; Susie Choi: Right Side Wrong Side at Sabbia Gallery, Sydney; Porcelain Reconsidered at Vessels + Sticks, Toronto; and Maryam Yousif: Above Earth, Under The Rays of the Sun at The Pit, Los Angeles.
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Ceramics Now Magazine – May 2026 (Issue 19)
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Ceramics Now Magazine Issue 19 (May 2026) features the work of Daniela Bergschneider on the cover. Combining porcelain and hand-dyed textiles, Bergschneider’s works suggest living structures in which hard and soft materials evoke bones, skin, breath, and tactile sensation.
This issue brings together essays, interviews, and reviews that reflect on ritual, material memory, cultural inheritance, and the act of making. Monica Monaia writes on Andile Dyalvane’s iNgqweji, considering how clay becomes a site of spiritual and cultural connection. In The Narrative Lies in the Material, Marthe Yung Mee Hansen speaks with Norwegian artist Nina Malterud about process, pedagogy, and the enduring language of clay. Heidi McKenzie reflects on Linda Rotua Sormin’s Uncertain Ground at the Gardiner Museum, while Beth Williamson examines Julia Phillips’ exhibition Inside, Before They Speak at the Barbican. Heather Jo Davis contributes an essay centered on identity and the philosophical dimensions of making.
This issue presents featured artists Daniela Bergschneider, Christine Coste, Jin Hee Kwon, and Sarah Gross.
The exhibitions section highlights Magdalena Suarez Frimkess at David Zwirner, Los Angeles; Sharif Bey at the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, New York; Arina Antonova at Galerie Dix9 Hélène Lacharmoise, Paris; Camila Capra at Abra Espacio, San José; Lotte Westphael at Galerie Maria Wettergren, Paris; Chenlu Hou and Chiara No at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield; and Forms From The Subsoil at Sala de Arte CCU, Santiago, Chile.
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Ceramics Now Magazine – April 2026 (Issue 18)
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Ceramics Now Magazine Issue 18 (April 2026) features the work of Gaku Nakane on the cover, recipient of the Grand Prize at the Kikuchi Biennale XI: The Present of Ceramics, held at the Kikuchi Kanjitsu Memorial Tomo Museum in Tokyo.
This issue brings together essays that explore ceramics through memory, ornament, ecology, and material history. Chenoa Baker reflects on Syd Carpenter’s practice in a review spanning three exhibitions in Philadelphia that position her work within a broader conversation on land, memory, and collective care. Unu Sohn and Katherina Perlongo report from Ceramic Brussels 2026, offering perspectives on the fair’s third edition and its focus on Spain. Sarah Rothwell examines the language of ornament in Frances Priest’s exhibition at Blackwell, while Tana West considers ecological narratives and alternative futures in a review of Undergrowth at County Hall Pottery. Finally, Kelly Parks reflects on early clay structures built by bees in The First Ceramicists, proposing a broader understanding of ceramic practice.
This issue also presents featured artists Japheth Asiedu-Kwarteng, Jeanne Rimbert, and Faye Papargyropoulou.
Featured exhibitions include Kikuchi Biennale XI: The Present of Ceramics at the Kikuchi Kanjitsu Memorial Tomo Museum, Tokyo; Eugene Ofori Agyei at the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, New York; YehRim Lee and Chase Travaille at LaiSun Keane, Boston; Janet Abrams at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe; Toshiaki Noda at Alison Bradley Projects, New York; Heidi Bjørgan and Kari Dyrdal at Taste Contemporary, Geneva; Janny Baek at Joy Machine, Chicago; and Marie Ducaté at Musée Ariana, Geneva.
Preview Issue 18 (April 2026)
Ceramics Now Magazine – February 2026 (Issue 17)
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Ceramics Now Magazine Issue 17 (February 2026) features Masayoshi Oya’s work on the cover, presented in Tales of the Hand at the Vandalorum Museum of Art and Design in Värnamo. Rooted in Japanese craft traditions and shaped by his practice in Sweden, Oya’s ceramics emphasize gesture, pattern, and the handmade as a counterpoint to industrial standardization.
This issue brings together essays and reports that trace how ceramics moves between myth, exhibition-making, film, and slow, embodied practice. Aurelija Seilienė reflects on the Martinsons Award 2025 exhibition, moving from prehistoric goddesses to contemporary mythical figures. Katherina Perlongo writes about Ceramics un-limited world at SKB Artes in Bolzano. Benjamin Evans reports on the third International Ceramic Film Festival of Manises. Vince Montague explores new perspectives in New Japanese Clay at the Asian Art Museum, while Viera Kleinová reviews Linda Viková’s exhibition I Will Give You Everything. William J. O’Brien contributes a reflective essay, “Clay is the medium. Slow revolution is the goal,” that centers on touch, process, and ethical making.
This issue also presents featured artists Kathy Erteman, Paolo Porelli, and Nanxi Jin.
Featured exhibitions include Masayoshi Oya: Tales of the Hand at Vandalorum, Värnamo; HOMO CERAMICUS at the Gyeonggi Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Icheon; Nils Erik Gjerdevik at CLAY Museum Denmark; Woody De Othello at Pérez Art Museum Miami; Undergrowth at County Hall Pottery, London; Paul Scott and Caroline Slotte at HB381 Gallery, New York; and Bouke de Vries: UNBROKEN at the Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics, Leeuwarden.
Preview Issue 17 (February 2026)
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