Robert King

Robert King (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) is a ceramic artist and physician whose work engages clay as a site of memory, transformation, and kinship. Working extensively with locally sourced materials, King creates vessels that foreground restraint, balance, and depth. His minimalist aesthetic, grounded in deep material knowledge, reflects a conceptual approach that resists categorical definition. Blending abstraction, cultural reference, and philosophical inquiry, his hand-built forms seem to emerge as much from geological time as from human intention.

King’s practice moves through and beyond pottery traditions, positioning clay as collaborator, witness, and teacher. His work explores the layered relationships between body and land, between creation and destruction, and between past and presence. King's pieces, recognized for their quiet strength and contemplative depth, have been exhibited and collected widely including by the American Museum of Ceramic Art, the Denver Art Museum, the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA), the Center for Contemporary Arts (CCA Santa Fe), Phillips Gallery, Trotta-Bono Contemporary, Wasserman Projects and the TiA Collection.