Ceramic Highlights: Salon Art + Design 2026

MoCA/NY rounds up the twelve galleries that brought functional and sculptural ceramics to Salon Art + Design’s fifteenth edition, from longtime exhibitors to a few newer faces.

By: MoCA/NY

November 10, 2026

Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Ave
New York, NY 10065

Salon Art + Design marked its fifteenth year, drawing forty galleries from around the world and 3,300 visitors to its opening preview at the Park Avenue Armory on November 4. Ceramics had a more muted showing this year, though there were still standout presentations, mostly from returning galleries. Hostler Burrows again showed Kim Simonsson, alongside two newer artists: Marianne Huotari, whose painstakingly layered clay scales accrue into sculptures that evoke flora and fauna, and Jasmin Anoschkin, whose fantastical animals carry a childlike insouciance.

Onishi Gallery, which specializes in kogei (contemporary Japanese craft), presented Bizen ware in collaboration with the city of its origin, home to one of Japan’s Six Ancient Kilns. The functional works smolder: wood-fired, ash-marked, iron-rich surfaces, unglazed and weathered, with an elemental earthiness. LES Collection also returned, this time with a booth of its own, showing Gianfranco Briceño’s animated vessels, buoyant yet dense with imagery, against a backdrop of his sketches and reference photographs.

Nearby, Liz O’Brien once again featured Isobel Egan, Paul Briggs, and Nuala O’Donovan; Todd Merrill Studio presented Molly Hatch, Mindy Horn, Alice Riehl, and new works by Christopher Russell, whose painterly, collage-like geometric vessels complemented the furniture they sat atop; and Donzella LTD. showed Chris Gustinand Rosanne Sniderman. Dyne brought back Kara Chin, whose ceramic wall tableaux glittered under the lights, vying with the high jewelry in the vitrines.

There were new collaborations and fresh faces, too. Vram presented a collaboration with Peter Lane, a longtime friend of MoCA/NY and the first artist featured in our In the Studio series when we launched in 2023. His large coral-inspired wall installation and coffee table shared the booth with Shizue Imai’s undulating, coral-like lava-crater sculpture, a fitting pairing for two artists who share a studio. Dernier Cri, which opened just this year, presented the richly textured hand-built sculptures of Todd Marshard, a former New York fashion photographer whose work, fragile yet forceful, evokes the landscape of Paros, the Greek island he now calls home.

On the whole, it was a graceful fair, if a lighter one for ceramics than last year, and several galleries showed many of the same artists as before. But the logic of the business is plain enough: artists whose work sells get repeated exposure. The fair closed on November 8, but Salon’s presence continues with its second annual installation in the design department at Bergdorf Goodman, a well-established destination for luxury fashion and design.

Here are the twelve galleries whose ceramics we found most worth seeing at this year’s fair.