BIOGRAPHY
Artist, Educator, Curator and Community member
Antra Sinha began discovering the artist within her in 1994, when she joined a painting class in New Delhi. Following this passion, she earned her BFA and MFA degrees in painting from the MS University of Baroda in India in 2002. Antra then became an apprentice to Ray Meeker for ten years at Golden Bridge Pottery (GBP) in Pondicherry, India. During this time, her role evolved according to the needs of the production and artist studio. She facilitated multiple workshops by invited artists Jeff Shapiro, Jack Troy and Tim Rowan, and taught regularly, including serving as the teaching assistant to Ray for the seven-month wheel throwing course in 2006, 07, & 09. She participated in wood kiln firings of monumental sculpture and production ware. She enhanced her artistic practice with creating works in clay and wood-firing in a 25cft Downdraft kiln. She has worked with multiple types of kilns, including Downdraft, Noborigama, and Anagama. Her knowledge and experience with kilns deepened when she began to design and build kilns in and around Pondicherry. In 2007, with the Australian potter Peter Thompson, Ray Meeker and A. Iber she participated in building the first Anagama kiln in India in the studio of Golden Bridge Pottery. An award from The Japan Foundation took her to the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park in Japan for six months in 2008. Here, her eyes opened to the wider universe of ceramics. She met artists from numerous other countries and appreciated a wide range of traditional as well as contemporary Japanese ceramic art. Her visits to various museums brought her a deeper understanding of the different aspects of Japanese culture. She trained in the Urasenke Tea ceremony tradition from a Danish Tea Master in Kyoto. At the ceramic institute, she participated in Anagama, Kanayama, Itekoigama firings. Antra also completed a large-scale version of her signature sculpture, Tetrarc, which now resides in the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park Collection. This led to a commission for an even larger, five-foot Tetrarc from the Hyatt Regency in Chennai, India, in 2009. The sculpture was one of six and was installed in 2011. A trip to Australia enabled her to work at The Tin Shed Pottery in Launceston, and then assist Neil Hoffman in preparation for the pre-conference and WoodFire Tasmania conference in 2011. She experienced a Train kiln firing for the first time during the workshop. At the conference, she gave a presentation, entitled Anagama in South India, about the Golden Bridge Pottery and the first Anagama kiln in India, as well as acted as co-curator and participant in a group show with Indian artists works, called Continental Drift. Antra continued her stay in Australia for several months working at the studios Qdos and Gooseneck Pottery as assistant to Graeme Wilkie and Robert Barron, respectively. Over the course of this time, she enhanced her skills throwing larger vessels on the wheel and participated in the firing of Robert Barron’s 1000-cubic-foot Noborigama kiln. Following this, she was invited for a residency at the Gaya Ceramic Arts Center in Bali, Indonesia. In 2014 she travelled to Markus Bohm’s studio Muritz Keramik in Germany. Here she helped set up a pre-conference event conducted by Chester Nealie before the 2nd European Wood Fire Conference in Guldagergaard, Denmark. She joined the conference and gave a presentation on her own work: Tetrarc – Making a 5-Foot Sculpture in India. She also participated in Steve Harrison’s unique, Laid-Back Wood Firing at Markus Bohm’s studio. Antra was invited to continue exploring and researching in northern Europe at a residency at Zentrum fur Keramik in Berlin. She furthered her practice by building her own kiln design and opening her ceramic studio, Earth Art, in Pondicherry. This studio was on the same campus of her family’s architectural business, Ovoid Atelier (OA). She was the art curator for a landscape at a community housing called Kalpana, designed by OA, in Auroville, India. She then received a STEM scholarship to pursue another MFA in ceramics at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. At the 50th NCECA conference in Kansas, she made a presentation at Blinc 20/20 and was awarded the MultiCultural Fellowship. In 2018, she received the Graduate Student Researcher of the Year Award at the Caine College of the Arts at Utah State University. The year of 2019 took her to Dankook Univeristy in Korea, where she presented a paper entitled Ceramics in South India at the ISCAEE conference. In 2021, she received the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art Teaching Fellowship in Logan, UT. Antra is a member of three ceramic organizations: IAC, ISCAEE, and NCECA. Since the summer of 2021-23 she served as a standing committee member for NCECA’s Collaboration & Engagement Committee. She has experience in teaching ceramics, drawing, and 3D design. She currently lives with her husband in Logan, UT, and serves as Gallery Coordinator/Art Instructor at Utah State University. She regularly fires a Train kiln at USU, is interested in sustainable living, and is obsessed with weeding her garden.
Antra Sinha antrasinha@gmail.com www.antrasinha.com Gallery Coordinator & Art Instructor at Caine College of the Arts, Utah State University. Member of International Academy of Ceramics. Education 2015 - 2018 MFA Ceramics Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA 2000 - 2002 MFA Mural Design Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, Gujarat, India 1996 - 2000 BFA Painting Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, Gujarat, India Solo/Two persons Exhibition 2025 Shimmering Sunlight, UVU MoA, Orem, Utah USA The Elements: Fire, Earth, Water. तत्वों : अग्नि, भूमि, जल। UMOCA, SLC, Utah USA 2024 Anubhooti अनुभूति BDAC, Bountiful, Utah USA 2022 Marks in Time/Through Time Gallery Latitude 28, New Delhi India 2021 Waves & Fibonacci Interpretation Projects Gallery, USU, Logan, Utah USA 2019 Perspective Projects Gallery, USU, Logan Utah USA 2018 Luminous Tippetts & Eccles Galleries, USU, Logan, Utah USA 2016 Perceptions Projects Gallery USU, Logan, Utah USA 2015 Unsaid Words Zentrum fur Keramik, Berlin Germany Objects of Contemplation II Tasmai, Pondicherry & Citadine, Auroville India 2014 Conscious Clay Tasmai, Pondicherry India 2013 Objects of Contemplation Gaya Fusion, Ubud, Bali Indonesia 2008 The Experience Togei no Mori, Shigaraki Japan Work in Progress Gallery 91, Canteen Street, Pondicherry India 2005 Churnings Gallery no.2, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai India Selected Exhibitions 2026 Wish All Sketches Were Real, Kimball Art Center, Park City, Utah USA Biennial Faculty Exhibition, Tippetts & Eccles Galleries, Logan, Utah USA 2025 Sangha, NCECA Concurrent, City Home Collective, SLC, Utah USA Clay Arts Utah Exhibition, SLC, Utah USA OUAC Presenters Exhibition, Canaanville Art Center, Athens, Ohio USA Sustain, Starworks, Star, North Carolina USA Rising Voices Vanishing Waters, Mestizo, SLC, Utah USA 2024 IAC Members Exhibition AZULEJO Caldas da Rainha Cultural and Congress Center Portugal 38th Annual Spiritual & Religious Art of Utah, Springville, Utah USA The Art of Change, MICA, The Gateway, Salt Lake City, Utah USA 100th Spring Salon Springville Museum of Art, Springville, Utah USA Postcard Homage to K G Subramanyan Tasmai, Pondicherry India 37th Annual UT Sears Art Invitational Sears Art Museum, St. George, Utah USA Maati HUB show, FFA, MSU, Baroda, Gujarat India Curator’s Choice Modern West Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah USA In-transit IAC-ICT, Gallery Navya, New Delhi India Feral & Functional Ology Gallery, Georgia USA 2023 The Earth We Share Alembic, Vadodara, Gujarat India Wintertide Modern West, Salt Lake City, Utah USA ROOTS OF RESISTANCE Mestizo Art Auction, MICA, Salt Lake City, Utah USA Biennial Faculty Exhibition Logan, Utah USA Clay National XVII: The Autobiography of the Object Carbondale, Colorado USA The Modern West Modern West, Salt Lake City, Utah USA RAAKH – A RIVER OF CONSCIOUSNESS QCC, Cincinnati, Ohio USA NCECA MCFE 57th Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio USA 2022 Platters NWWFC, Newberg, Oregon USA Making Matters Peters Valley School of Craft, New Jersey USA Women of the West Wild fire Ceramic Studio, Missoula, Montana USA NCECA MCFE 56th Conference, Sacramento, California USA Clay Carrots – The Modernist Vanguard Stories 079, Ahmedabad India 2021 Biennial Faculty Exhibition Logan, Utah USA The Things We Carry Eutectic Gallery, Portland, Oregon USA Inspiring Plants Botanical Garden, Taipei City, (virtual) Taiwan NCECA MCFE 55th Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio USA 2020 New Member Exhibition IAC GuoZhong Ceramic Art Museum, Beijing China 2019 Delegates show Suk Joo-sun Museum Dankook University Korea 2018 Punter Show Cultural Confluence, Helena, Montana USA Clay National XIII- Out of the Mold, Carbondale, Colorado USA Breaking Ground Indian Ceramic Triennale, Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur India Animal Planet Gallery Art & Soul, Worli, Mumbai India 2017 Paper & Clay Tippetts Gallery, USU, Logan Utah USA 2016 Sculpture Graduate Show Projects Gallery, USU, Logan, Utah USA Ceramic Graduate Show Readymade Gallery, USU, Logan, Utah USA 2015 Open Studio and Presentation Zentrum fur Keramik, Berlin Germany Digging Time Art Positive, New Delhi India 2014 Bridges The Stainless, New Delhi India Presenters Exhibition 2nd European Wood Fire Conference Denmark Mrittika 2 Invited Show, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh India 2013 Traditions Evolving Spring Street Studio, NCECA, Houston USA Thirteen Pondicherrians Tasmai, Pondicherry India 2012 People for Animal Platter Show Lalit Hotel, New Delhi India 2011 Continental Drift Woodfire Tasmania, Deloraine Creative Studios Australia Delegates Exhibition Wood fire Tasmania, Deloraine Australia Firebox No 1 Shanti Road Gallery, Bangalore India 2010 Shilpataru DakshinChitra, Chennai, Tamil Nadu India India Art Summit represented by Gallery Grasshopper, New Delhi India Shilpataru Art Event Intach Heritage House, Pondicherry India 2009 Another Way of Tea Kala Kendra, Auroville India Pashion ash-glazed ceramics from GBP Sarjan Art Gallery, Vadodara India New Friends, Art and Adventure Japan Foundation Gallery, Sydney Australia Teapot Show Prakrit Art Gallery, Chennai India Maati Invitational Visual Art Gallery and Palm Court, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi India 2008 The Mad Hatter’s Pots Icia Shop, Icia House, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai India Harmony Show Invitational show Nehru Centre, Mumbai India Shilpataru Art Event INTACH Heritage House, Pondicherry India 2007 Peter Thompson and Friends The Attic, New Delhi India Shilpataru Art Event 13 MMK Street, Pondicherry India Delhi Blue Pottery Exhibition India Habitat Center, New Delhi India 2006 Unfolding Grace Lanxess ABS Gallery, Baroda India 2005 Three Artist Show Kaleidoscope, Baroda India Sense ‘n’ Blend Kaleidoscope, Baroda India Maa Show Travelling show India Harmony Show World Trade Centre, Mumbai India 2003 Potters Platters Forum Art Gallery, Chennai India Awards 2024 Honorable mention, 37th Annual UT Sears Art Invitational, St. George, Utah USA 2021 NEHMA Teaching Fellowship, Logan, Utah USA 2018 Local’s Choice Award, Carbondale Clay Art Centre, Colorado USA Master’s Student Researcher of the year CCA, USU, Logan Utah USA 2017 Art Department Scholarship, Logan Utah USA 2016 NCECA Multicultural Fellowship Kansas City, Kansas USA Noni E Harrison Scholarship, Logan Utah USA Carol Laub Scholarship, Logan Utah USA 2015 All India Bronze Award for Ceramics Prafulla Dahanukar Art Foundation, Mumbai India Carol Laub Scholarship, Logan Utah USA Arthur and Diana Norris Scholarship, Logan Utah USA STEM Fellowship USU, Logan Utah USA 2008 Japan-East Asia Network of Exchange for Students and Youths invitation JF Delhi India 2002 UGC Junior Research Fellowship MSU, Baroda Gujarat India Collections Salt Lake City County, Salt Lake City, Utah USA Utah Division of Arts & Museum, Salt Lake City, Utah USA SCCP Museum, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park Japan Gelato, Gaya Fusion, Jalan Sayan, Ubud, Bali Indonesia Kalpana Housing, Auroville, Tamil Nadu India Hyatt Regency, Teyampet, Mount Road, Chennai India Dr. Raj & Asha Kubba, Hauz Khas, New Delhi India Uttarayan, ABS Lanxess, Old Padra Road, Baroda India Private collections in Australia, England & USA. Publications 2026 Merging of Influences, The Studio Potter USA 2024 Tribute to Deborah Smith, NCECA Journal COALESENCE USA 2023 Exploring Cultures: Clay Cooking Vessels, NCECA Journal CURRENT USA Nature/Nurture: Community, Self & Others, NCECA Journal CURRENT USA 2019 Centre of Gravity by Antra Sinha, The Log Book Issue #79 Ireland Ceramics in South India, ISCAEE catalogue Korea 2014 7minute short film by Sita Spada, www.puduart.com Pondicherry India 2009 The experience an overseas report JENESYS program Japan 2005 Antra: personal expressions in clay by Brinda Gill India Presentations 2026 Artists Talk, Kimball Art Center, Park City, Utah USA 2025 Artists Talk, UVU MoA, Orem, Utah USA Grammer of Throwing, Iron Desert Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah USA Journey with clay, OUAC, Athens, Ohio USA 2023 Baatein with Antra Sinha, NID, Ahmedabad, Gujarat India Antra Sinha on her Art Practice, FFA, MSU, Vadodara, Gujarat India Exploring Cultures: Clay Cooking Vessels, panel NCECA at Cincinnati, Ohio USA Nature/Nurture: Community, Self & Others, panel NCECA at Cincinnati, Ohio USA 2022 Artist’s Journey-Antra Sinha, PVSC, Layton, New Jersey USA Five Foot Wood fire Sculpture, NWWFC, Newberg, Oregon USA Kiln Talk, ICAF India, Online India 2020 Trail Talk, CCDIES Mumbai, Online India 2019 Idea to form, Sculpture making in clay, Image Animation, Pondicherry India Ceramics in South India, Dankook University, Seoul Korea 2016 Eight months in Utah at Tasmai, Pondicherry India Connection between Life and Work Blinc20/20, NCECA, Kansas City USA 2014 Tetrarc – Making a 5-foot Sculpture in India at 2nd European Wood Fire Conference Denmark Experiments in Clay Industrial Design Centre, IIT Powai, Mumbai India 2011 Anagama in South India at Woodfire Tasmania, Deloraine, Tasmania Australia Journey in Clay Gaya CAC, Ubud Indonesia 2009 Firing Anagama in Pondicherry at Sarjan Art Gallery, Baroda India Member Organizations 2024 onwards ARTAXIS BOARD 2023-25 NCECA BOARD 2022 onwards UTAHCLAYARTS member 2021 – 23 NCECA C&E Standing Committee member 2021 onwards ICAF India Ceramic Art Foundation member 2019 onwards AIC-IAC International Academy of Ceramics ISCAEE International Society of Ceramic Art Education & Exchange 2018 onwards ARTAXIS an evolving independent network of artists 2013 onwards NCECA National Council on Education for the Ceramic Art member