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Bio:

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Austin Coudriet is a ceramic artist, designer, and educator, currently based out of Indianapolis Indiana. Born and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska, He earned his BFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2019. Coudriet has completed three long term Resident Artist programs, most recently he was a resident at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT (2023-25). Coudriet was a long term resident at The Clay Studio of Missoula (2021-23) as well as at the Clay Art Center in Portchester, New York (2019-21). He has completed short term residencies at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (2021) and The LUX Center for the Arts (2020).
 

Over the past decade, Coudriet’s work has been showcased in prominent ceramic exhibitions across the country, including solo shows in New York, California, New Mexico, Utah, Montana and Nebraska. His work has been featured in international publications, most notably in Vogue Magazine’s article - ‘Burned out. Hot design straight from the stove’.
 

Coudriet is a 2025 NCECA Emerging Artist and a 2024 Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artist award recipient. Currently he travels the United States and internationally teaching his Ceramic Furniture Workshop. In the past two years Coudriet has taught over 20 workshops in eight different countries.

In 2026 Coudriet and his partner, Sarah Anderson are opening a ceramic studio in Indianapolis, IN called, Dusty Pants Studio. Their studio is equal parts community studio, residency and art therapy center. for more information visit www.dustypantsstudio.com

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Statement:

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"My studio practice is an ongoing tactile conversation between soft amorphous forms and rigid linear components. Rejecting the binary conception that an object is either functional or sculptural I largely create dysfunctional vessels and functional sculptures. As a child I would draw with my father, an architect. I was fascinated by the way he built with lines, they exceeded their boundaries yet were contained by the image they formed, loose but intentional. My visual horizon was flooded by blueprints, modern design, and furniture. As I began my own art making practice, my drawings developed Into the exploration of three dimensional fabrication. Through the material of clay lines translated into coils, and those coils into sculpture. my lines find edges and shapes form volume. 
 

Originally I collected inspiration from mid-century modern furniture, scaffolding and the Deconstructivist architecture movement. The more I create, the more I collect inspiration from everything around me. I draw constantly, often working in multiple sketchbooks at a time. I cut out and collect images from anything I can get my hands on, magazines, books, postcards, even grocery store ads. These clippings manifest themselves into books of collaged inspiration. Currently, these collages intermix with my daily visual experiences and are re-contextualized through the lens of design, into nonrepresentational sculpture and furniture. As I progress in my career I will continue to pursue large scale works of sculpture and press into the design world with my functional ceramic furniture."

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