The 10ᵗʰ InternationalModern Teapot Art Biennale

Chinese ceramic artist

For more than thirty years Ge Jun has devoted himself to the research, development and design of Yixing zisha clay. His original colour-decoration technique (色饰法) carried zisha art from tradition into a contemporary language.

His commissions range from the zisha door surround “Abundant Harvest” for the Great Hall of the People to teapots marking the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and successive national anniversaries. His work has taken more than forty national gold awards and over four hundred design patents, and is held by the Palace Museum, the National Art Museum of China and the Ziguang Pavilion at Zhongnanhai. He lectures and supervises graduate students at universities in China and abroad.

Japanese ceramic artist

Mami Kato studied the fundamentals of ceramics at the Tokoname Municipal Ceramic Art Institute. She first made practical ceramics rooted in tradition, and later developed her work into abstract expression in the form of vessels.

Her original glazes and singular worldview have brought her work into museum collections in Japan and abroad. She has twice taken the Grand Prix at the Mino Tea Bowl Exhibition — a distinction no other woman has achieved — and teaches, exchanges and leads workshops internationally.

Ceramic artist and painter

Karen Gunderman is an artist living and working in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. After a long career teaching art and design at university level in Wisconsin, Ohio and Michigan, she is now a full-time studio artist.

Her work in ceramics and painting draws on her experience of the natural world: form, colour, texture and design. She has exhibited widely at international level in China, Korea, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, Portugal, Spain, Peru and the United States.

Peruvian-born ceramic artist

Christopher Davis-Benavides is a Peruvian-born artist who works in ceramics from his studio in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is an Emeritus Professor of Art at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where he taught ceramics from 1998 to 2019.

He has exhibited across Europe and the Americas, including the international ceramics biennales of Manises and Aveiro and the CICA competition at l'Alcora. His work is held in museum and corporate collections in Spain, Hungary, Portugal, China, Peru and the United States.

Italian ceramic artist

Mirta Morigi works from La Bottega Morigi, in the historic centre of Faenza. Modelled on the Renaissance workshop, it has become a place of meeting and exchange, open to artists, architects and designers.

Her ceramics are pop and unmistakable, their glazes dense and vibrant; her sculptural forms draw on a naturalistic bestiary of lizards, chameleons and tree frogs that become handles and grips. She has taken part in exchanges in ceramic cities from Australia to China, Korea, Japan and India, and has been a member of the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC) in Geneva since 2011.