June 8 – 18, 2023
Special Exhibition Hall. 3rd Floor
Included with admission. Free for Gardiner Friends.

June 7
Be among the first to view and purchase the artworks at the Preview Gala.

June 9 – 10
Alongside the artworks presented in the fair, ICAF 2023 will include a symposium, Toward Future Bodies, which brings together artists, scholars, and other voices from Canada and internationally to explore the boundaries of our species and our connection to other life forms as expressed through ceramics and clay. Learn more

The International Ceramic Art Fair (ICAF) returns to the Gardiner Museum from June 8 to June 18, 2023. ICAF is a 10-day celebration of some of the most compelling recent ceramic art, featuring works by emerging and established artists from a wide range of backgrounds, as well as online and in-person programming by artists and curators.

Artists & Galleries

Crystal Morey, Courtney Leonard, David R. Harper, Ito Tadashi, Jess Riva Cooper, Judy Chartrand, Manuel Mathieu, Ramekon O’Arwisters, Sakiyama Takayuki, Stephanie Hanes, Susan Collett, Yoshikawa Masamichi, Ferrin Contemporary, Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Joan B Mirviss LTD, and Patricia Sweetow Gallery

About ICAF 2023

Many artists are reconsidering how we define ourselves as a species and how these changing definitions can alter our relationships to each other, to other animals and life forms, and to the land we inhabit. The separation of the human and non-human is increasingly understood as porous or insignificant. Clay can be seen as a mediator between the human and non-human, blurring the boundaries with its life-giving properties, its capacity to record and hold human memory, its characteristic of absorption, and its capacity to connect us to the land.

How can we re-orient our relationship to the planet through a more nuanced understanding of our connection to other forms of life? How can emerging discourses of the human shift us toward new and generative understandings of our bodies place in the world?

Join us to view the works at ICAF and participate in the accompanying programs to explore these and other questions.

With thanks to our 2023 Honorary Committee

The Hon. Hilary M. Weston, Chair / James Appleyard / David Binet / James Burn / Yvonne Fleck / Ydessa Hendeles / Victoria Jackman / Nancy Lockhart / Gay Longo / The Hon. Margaret McCain / David Mirvish / Kent Monkman / Melanie Munk / Mia Nielsen / Lynda Prince / Eleanor Shen