URIEL CASPI CERAMICS

Uriel Caspi’s artworks propose an interplay between the revival of ancient crafts and contemporary art studio practice.  Visually inspired by archeological remnants from the Middle East and the aesthetics of future design, installations of large-scale ceramic sculptures operate as platforms for artistic interaction between the artist and the viewer. Antiquarian connotations from the artist’s local surroundings as well as objects from the domicile are transformed into clay, in a process of experimental study that occasionally combines both ancient techniques and digital fabrication.
 

Uriel Caspi has been working internationally as an artist-in-residence and a fellow in the academia. He has exhibited works and installations in museums, galleries, art fairs and venues across the world: the Armory Show with Yossi Milo Gallery, NYC; Sculpture Space, NY; Faenza International Ceramics Museum, Italy; Salon C-14, Paris; Collect Art Fair, London; Westerwald Ceramics Museum, Germany; Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv; Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taipei; and Mino Ceramics Museum, Japan.

Caspi received the Hecht Foundation Award for Emerging Artist in 2019, the Artis Foundation Grant in 2023, and was an artist-in-residence at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Montana; at the Yingge Ceramics Museum in Taipei, Taiwan; at the European Ceramic Work Center, the Netherlands; and at the Keramikkünstlerhaus, Germany. The artist received a BFA (Cum Laude) in Ceramics from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem in 2018, and an MFA in Ceramic Art from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, New York, in 2021. In 2024, he was a visiting artist at CERCCO, Geneva University of Art and Design, Switzerland, and at the Höchster PorzellanManufaktur, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He is a current McKnight Fellow at the Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, USA. Caspi was born in Haifa, Israel, and currently based in the Netherlands.