Robin Kozloff makes sculptural ceramic vessels that explore the forms of her cultural past and surfaces from an imagined future. Born in mid-century Chicago into a family of artists, scholars, and communists, she carries nostalgia for the modern aesthetic and is deeply influenced by her early work as an archaeologist, investigating the remnants of the Midwest’s ancient mound cultures.

Her practice is rooted in a lifelong fascination with the fragmented remains of material culture—both the functional objects of ancient peoples and the weathered, industrial surfaces of modern urban landscapes. Kozloff holds a Master’s degree in International Agricultural Development from UC Davis, and as a devoted horticulturalist, she envisions her ceramic sculptures as artifacts from a destroyed future—slowly reclaimed by tenacious plant life.

She is grateful to work in community with the wood firing teams and mentors in the ceramics program at Solano Community College, whose generosity and shared knowledge continue to shape her evolving practice.