Here is a list of some ceramic artists I found while surfing Pinterest. Feel free to use them in your Artist of the Week blog posts.
Adam Field
Hsinchuen Lin
Mike Dodd
Ann Van Hoey
Hsin-Yi Huang
Pilar Wiley
Jun Kaneko
Wendy Hoare
Alyson Cook
Peter Christian Johnson
Penelope Withers
Mel Griffin
Renee Brown
Katharine Morling
Warren MacKenzie
Margaret Kinkeade
Rachel Boxnhoim
Beatrice Wood
Mark Peters
Gail Kendall
Chris Staley
Kate Malone
Lesley D McKenzie
Diana Fayt
Gary Jackson
Fenella Elms
Ah Leon
Terri Kern
Terry Hogan
Marge Margulies
Ryota Aoki
Joanna Mozdzen
Laura McNamara
Karen Karnes
Nathalie Choux
Judit Varga
Greg Payce
David Burnham Smith
Nuala O’Donovan
Sakiyama Takayuki
Tanoue Shinya
Ute Grossman
Beryl Hole
Sally & Neil MacDonell
MORE Ceramic Artists
15th Century
Luca Della Robbia, Italy – relief
Donato di Niccolo Bardi – portrait busts
Donatella, Italy – portrait busts
Andrea del Verrocchio, Italy – portrait busts
16th Century
Chojiro, Japan – tea bowls
Andrea della Robbia, Italy – Madonna and child
Cipriano Piccolpasso, Italy – first glaze book? L’arte della ceramica secondo
Bernard Palissy, France – relief platters, added texture
17th Century
Pierre Chicaneau, France – dutch blue
John Dwight, England – earthenware jugs, busts
David Elers, England – red, functional, raised textures
Sakaida Kakiemon, Japan – classic, colorful glazing on white
Louis Poterat, France – dutch blue
Ri Sampei, Japan – classic vases
18th Century
Johann Friedrich Bottger, Germany – porcelain figures
Franz Anton Bustelli, Germany – porcelain figures
Johann Joachim Kandler, Germany – porcelain figures
Peter Reiniche, Germany – porcelain figures
Josiah Wedgewood, England – greek-like vessels, relief surfaces
19th Century
Charles Avisseau, France – platters and sculptures with detailed textures, natural scenes
Ernest Chaplet, France – earthenware bowls and urns, pitted glaze
Theodorus Colenbrander, Belgium – vessel, intricate glazes
William Frend De Morgan, England – early Arts Deco, William Morris
Albert Dammouse, France – bowls, vivid blues
Theodore Deck, France – early Japanese style
Paul Gauguin, France – bowls with wrapped figures and animals
James Hadley, England – figurines
Ogata Kenzan, Japan – tea bowls, rustic
Ogata Korin, Japan – tea bowls, silk paintings
Arnold Krog, Denmark – watercolor-like surface
Pietro Krohn, Denmark – dutch blue, silk screen?
Berta Nathanielsen, Denmark – porcelain
Alf Wallander, Sweden – vases, sculpted surfaces
Jules-Claude Ziegler, France – vessels, sculpted surfaces
20th Century American
William Grueby – jade pottery
Adelaide Alsop Robineau – vessels, sculpted surfaces (Slab)
George E. Ohr – structured and collapsed wheel pieces (Wheel)
Viktor Schreckengost – blue and black sgraffito
Robert Arneson – whimsical self-portrait busts (BIO)
Rudy Autio – organic forms with figurative painting
Clayton Bailey – “head” jars and whimsical sculptures
Frank Boyden – pit fire/soda ash earthenware
Tom Coleman – altered wheel pieces
Val Cushing – wheel, repeated patterning on surfaces
William Daley – large-scale vessels, geometric
Stephen de Staebler – totemic work
Ruth Duckworth – abstract vessels, porcelain
Mary Frank – figurative works
Ken Ferguson – altered wheel, footed vessels
Viola Frey – colorful large-scale figures
Andrea Gill – cubist vase forms, intricate surfaces
David Gilhooly – whimsical frog sculptures (BIO)
Maurice Grossman – “head” jars, rustic
Maija Grotell – wheel, structured glaze patterning
Vivika and Otto Heino – wheel, pit fire
Tony Hepburn – large-scale abstract sculptures
Wayne Higby – landscape inspired pottery
Richard Hirsch – earthenware, pit fire
Jun Kaneko – monumental portrait busts, abstracted, patterning
Karen Karnes – altered wheel thrown pottery
Susan and Steven Kemenyffy – figurative glaze work
Lucy Lewis – classic Native American pottery
Warren Mackenzie – wheel, soda ash
Maria Martinez – coil, highly burnished, pattern (BIO)
John Mason – abstract, geometric sculptures
Jim Melchert – tiles and masks
Ron Meyers – incised surfaces, rustic
Ron Nagle – abstract, colorful sculptures (BIO)
Otto Natzler – wheel, balanced foot
Dennis Parks – raw glazing and oil firing
Susan Peterson – wheel vessels
Kenneth Price – abstract sculptures, geometric meets organic (BIO)
Don Reitz – altered wheel, primitive
Daniel Rhodes – ancient inspired pottery
Jerry Rothman – Bauhaus/Baroque
Richard Shaw – trompe l’oeil , hyper-realism (BIO)
Kataro Shirayamadani – vases, glaze control, crystalline
Paul Soldner – abstracted, rustic, primitive
Robert Sperry – “cracked” sgraffito
Toshiko Takaezu – large, bulbous vessels
Robert Turner – altered wheel, rustic
Peter Voulkos – large-scale totems, primitive (BIO)
Patti Warashina – disproportioned figures
Kurt Weiser – vessels with figurative glazing
Marguerite and Frans Wildenhain – soda ash fire
Beatrice Wood – wheel thrown, metallic
Betty Woodman – altered wheel thrown, Matisse-like glazes
Elsbeth Woody – large-scale organic forms
20th Century English
Alison Britton – complex slab work, vessels and pitchers
Alan Caiger-Smith – wheel, free-brushwork glaze
Michael Cardew – pottery, simple glazing
Michael Casson – pottery, simple glazing
Hans Coper – minimalist vessels (Noguchi-like), altered wheel thrown vessels
Jill Crowley – abstracted human forms
Harry Davis – functional pottery
Bernard Leach – pottery, simple glazing (BIO)
David Leach – pottery, fluted sides
Janet Leach – pottery, altered, rustic glazes
Magdalene Odundo – warped vases, high gloss
Lucie Rie – wheel thrown vessels with wide rims and small feet
Mary Rogers – “scrunched” vessels
William Staite Muray – pottery, simple glazing
20th Century European
Josep Llorens Artigas, Spain – pottery, graceful forms
Arne Ase, Norway – intricate surfaces
Mac Chagall, France – painting style on platters and vessels
Antoni Gaudi, Spain – mosaics with architecture
Josep Maria Jujol, Spain – mosaics with architecture
Pierre Caille, Belgium – pottery, tiles, Dada (Miro-like)
Lisa Larson, Sweden – cat pottery
Joan Miro, Spain – painting style on vessels
Pablo Picasso, Spain – altered jugs, with painting style (BIO)
Gilbert Portanier, France – abstract glazing
Georges and Suzanne Ramie, France – 1950s pottery
Georges Rouault, France – painting style on pottery
Axel Salto, Denmark – vessels with rich texture! (BIO)
Lilo Schrammel, Hungary – abstract sculptures, minimal
Alev Siesbye, Denmark – bowls, turquoise glazing
Heidi van Veen-Kiehne, Netherlands – minimalist porcelain
Carlo Zauli, Italy – abstract, organic sculptures
20th Century Japanese
Toyozo Arakawa – rustic tea bowls
Shoji Hamada – tea bowls and vessels (slab)
Toyo Kaneshige – pit fired pottery
Shinobu Kawase – altered pottery, celadon glazes
Kosei Matsui – coil built vessels, glaze patterning
Kimpei Nakamura – abstract sculptures, eccentric
Shiro Otani – coil-wheel combo, large-scale vessels
Kitaoji Rosanjin – tea bowls, rustic fires
Kazuhiko Sato – organic vessels
Muneyoshi Yanagi – rustic pottery
Contemporary Ceramists
Stephen Benwell – vessels and figures with erratic glazes
Emma Clegg – white vessels with added flowers
Jose Drouin – eclectic sculptures and rustic colors
Tammy Garcia – Maria Martinez-ish, but carved
Christine Giffiths – animal pottery
Lisa Larson – simplified animals
Carol Long – vessels, high detail and complexity
Nick Mackman – detailed animal sculptures
Ricky Maldonado – stippled texture (BIO)
Randy O’Brien – bright colors, crackled surfaces
Magdalene Odundo – asymmetrical coil and wheel pottery, matt black glaze (BIO)
Gustavo Perez – vessels, altered and sliced
Susan Phillips – simple, abstract pottery and sculptures
Rimas Visgirda – underglazes, details