At Design Miami, twelve galleries reveal ceramics shedding their humble origins and emerging monumental, otherworldly, and impossibly precise.
By: Abbey Chase, Emily Carroll & Irene Sperber
December 11, 2025
Convention Center Drive & 19th Street Miami Beach, US
Ceramics are increasingly elevated from the column of crafts to the status of fine art. Design Miami reflects the move into a more august realm. Running from December 2 to 7, the twentieth-anniversary exhibition, a sister fair to Art Basel Miami Beach, is located in its usual glamping tent nearby. 70 galleries exhibited, including 25 first-time exhibitors injecting dynamism and innovation. 43 countries and territories rounded out the 2025 fair, themed “Make. Believe.”
The gorgeous London-based Charles Burnand Gallery won Best in Show (installation). Artist Peter Lane’s glazed ceramic stoneware walls are a stunner and look more like rough wood or lava. When discussing his architectural facades, words like “monumental” and “brutalism” are bandied about. The gallery also exhibited Yaerin Pyun’s stoneware, porcelain, stains, rock components, and glaze, melded into unique organic forms with intricate details. The decorative surface sculptures evoke an ancient botanic aura that lures you into its recesses. They must be experienced to fully comprehend the artistry.
Adrian Sassoon Gallery transports viewers with artist Hitomi Hosono's unimaginable precision in her porcelain vessels, carved with delicate botanical motifs. The Moderne Gallery had a profound, ceramic floor-vase piece by Yuji Ueda, who employs unique firing techniques, using whole blocks of feldspar or creating irregular clay surfaces fired in anagama kilns. You cannot ignore Ueda. Peeling, molting, and dripping are all incorporated.
Superb control and understanding of material is the standout in this fair. Ceramics have opened a new door in an ever-expanding universe of ideas.
Here are twelve galleries that showcased ceramics at this year’s Design Miami.
Kate Malone | Hitomi Hosono | Andrew Wicks | Pippin Drysdale | Ashraf Hanna | Felicity Aylieff
Adrian Sassoon Installation at Design Miami 2025 | Photo courtesy: Adrian Sassoon
Adrian Sassoon Installation at Design Miami 2025 | Photo courtesy: Adrian Sassoon
Kate Malone | Mega Magma | 2025 | crystalline-glazed stoneware | 29.875 x 24 x 22.875 in | Photo courtesy: Adrian Sassoon
Kate Malone | An Atomic Magma Bowl | 2024 | crystalline-glazed stoneware | 8.625 x 16.5 x 16.875 in | Photo courtesy: Adrian Sassoon
Hitomi Hosono | A Large Dew Drop and English Daisy Bowl | 2025 | moulded, carved and hand-built porcelain with an interior of dancing sprigs | 9.25 x 14.625 ø in | Photo courtesy: Adrian Sassoon
Andrew Wicks | Still Life of Three Calyx Vases | 2024 | Thrown and carved porcelain | 12.625 x 17.375 x 11.75 ø in | Photo courtesy: Adrian Sassoon
Pippin Drysdale | Salmon Cove: Rainbow Coast WA | 2024 | porcelain vessel | 8.625 x 8.25 ø in | Photo courtesy: Adrian Sassoon
Ashraf Hanna | Purple Undulating Vessel | 2025 | slab-built earthenware | 18.125 x 15.75 x 14.75 ø in | Photo courtesy: Adrian Sassoon
Bouke de Vries | Ceramic Carrier II | 2025 | Han Dynasty Chinese earthenware figure with Song Dynasty Chinese porcelain shards on a marble base | 31.875 x 7.875 x 8.875 ø in | Photo courtesy: Adrian Sassoon
Felicity Aylieff | Blue: Lantern I | 2023 | thrown and glazed porcelain, painted with cobalt blue oxide and colloidal gold | 77.5 x 37.375 ø in | Photo courtesy: Adrian Sassoon
R & Company Installation at Design Miami 2025 | Photo courtesy: R & Company
Roberto Lugo | What Had Happened Was: Jackie Robinson, from the Orange and Black Series | 2024 | glazed stoneware | 30.25 x 16.5 x 14 in | Photo courtesy: R & Company
Roberto Lugo | What Had Happened Was: The Path, from the Orange and Black series| 2024 | glazed stoneware | 23.25 x 17 x 15 in | Photo courtesy: R & Company
Francesca Dimattio | Black Lattice Mirror | 2025 | glaze and luster on porcelain | 67 x 48 x 8 in | Photo courtesy: R & Company
Francesca Dimattio | Mille Fleur Sconce | 2025 | glaze and luster on porcelain | 18.5 x 17 x 15 in | Photo courtesy: R & Company
Mindy Horn | Molly Hatch | Christopher Russell | Alice Riehl | Teemu Salonen
Todd Merrill Studio Installation at Design Miami 2025 | Photo courtesy: Todd Merrill Studio | Photography: Stephane Aboudaram
Mindy Horn | Reflection | 2020 | Porcelain, Glaze, Mounted to Painted Panel | 40.5” H x 40.5” W x 3” D | Photo courtesy: Todd Merrill Studio
Todd Merrill Studio Installation at Design Miami 2025 | Photo courtesy: Todd Merrill Studio | Photography: Stephane Aboudaram
Todd Merrill Studio Installation at Design Miami 2025 | Photo courtesy: Todd Merrill Studio | Photography: Stephane Aboudaram
Todd Merrill Studio Installation at Design Miami 2025 | Photo courtesy: Todd Merrill Studio | Photography: Stephane Aboudaram
Molly Hatch | Truth, Beauty, Power | 2025 | Earthenware Plates with Underglaze, Glaze and 22K Gold Luster | Photo courtesy: Todd Merrill Studio
Christopher Russell | Landscape Geo Light | 2025 | Glazed Ceramic, LED, Brass frame | 19.75h x 17.50w x 3d in | Photo courtesy: Todd Merrill Studio
Detail shot of Landscape Geo Light | Photo courtesy: Todd Merrill Studio
Alice Riehl | Timidité | 2025 | Porcelain | 69h x 108w in | Photo courtesy: Todd Merrill Studio
Teemu Salonen |Chinese Restaurant No. 21| 2024 | Ceramic, Paint, LED | 19.69h in | Photo courtesy: Todd Merrill Studio
Teemu Salonen | Cabbage Garden No. 3 | 2022 | fiberglass, ceramic, blown glass, paint, LED | 35.50h x 23w x 9d in | Photo courtesy: Todd Merrill Studio
Les Ateliers Courbet Installation at Design Miami | Photo Courtesy: Les Ateliers Courbet
Les Ateliers Courbet Installation at Design Miami | Photo Courtesy: Les Ateliers Courbet
Valéria Nascimento| Black Blossom Triptych | 2024 | Hand Formed Porcelain Mounted onto Charred Wood Panels | W 70 7/8 x H 31 1/2 in | Photo courtesy: Les Ateliers Courbet
Emelie Abrahamsson | Curve 01 | 2024 | Hand-Formed and Coiled Stoneware Ceramic | 18 1/8 x H 12 5/8 in | Photo courtesy: Les Ateliers Courbet
Katherine Glenday | KG-250419 | 2025 | Porcelain | 10 x H 9 in | Photo courtesy: Les Ateliers Courbet
Peter Speliopoulos | Chasma 23 | 2024 | Wheel Thrown Black Stoneware Ceramic | 9 x H 29 in | Photo courtesy: Les Ateliers Courbet
Peter Speliopoulos | Chasma 21 | 2024 | Wheel Thrown Black Stoneware Ceramic | 9 x H 26 in | Photo courtesy: Les Ateliers Courbet
Nicole Cherubini | diagram of love: the first | 2025 | white earthenware, terracotta, sculpture clay, glaze | 84 x 26 x 26 in | Photo courtesy: Friedman Benda & Nicole Cherubini
Detail shot of diagram of love: the first | Photo courtesy: Friedman Benda & Nicole Cherubini
Carmen D'Apollonio | Asparagus Man | 2025 | ceramic, porcelain shade | 25 x 10 x 8.5 in | Photo courtesy of Friedman Benda & Carmen D’Apollonio
Misha Kahn | Azimuth 90 (Melon, Finance Bro Porsche, The Void, Fior di Latte , Painters Tape) | 2025 | Ceramic, glass, enamel, mirror | 35 x 28 x 4 in | Photo courtesy: Friedman Benda & Misha Kahn
Kim Simonsson | Sleeping Little Moss Girl | 2025 | ceramics, nylon fibre, epoxy resin, 3D print, artificial plants, and feathers | 35.25 x 15.25 x 17.5 in | Photo courtesy: Hostler Burrows
Maren Kloppman | Blooming I | 2025 | glazed porcelain, 28 elements | 64 x 93 in | Photo courtesy: Hostler Burrows
Yukiya Izumita | Sekisoh 積層 (Layered Form) | 2025 | ceramic | 12.625 x 24 x 11 in | Photo courtesy: Ippodo Gallery
Agnes Husz | Rainbow Tomeishi A | 2025 | ceramic | 13.75 x 11 x 10.25 in | Photo courtesy: Ippodo Gallery
Masahiro Maeda | Overglaze Enamel Flower Vase 色絵洋彩花入 | 2024 | ceramic | 10.125 x 9 x 9 in | Photo courtesy: Ippodo Gallery
Nobuo Nishida | Blue Jar 碧の壺 | 2024 | ceramic | 12.875 x 14.125 x 14.125 in | Photo courtesy: Ippodo Gallery
Mitsukuni Misaki | Color-Glazed Mud Vessel 彩泥器 | 2025 | ceramic | 12 x 15 x 5.5 in | Photo courtesy: Ippodo Gallery
CONTRIBUTORS
Emily Carroll studied art and design at distinguished universities such as Rhode Island School of Design, School of Visual Arts and Parsons School of Design in New York where she earned her BFA degree in 1993. Since then, she has been utilizing her design skills for prominent publications, ad agencies and design firms working in New York and Miami.
Irene Sperber has been a freelance art reviewer in Miami, Florida for almost twenty years. Previously, Sperber had a career in photographic imagery and documentation. Currently, she is completing her travel memoir and participating in anthologies focusing on Florida’s unique quirks.
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