Biography

Grace Sachi Troxell is Assistant Professor of Ceramics in the Expanded Field at the University of Florida. Troxell comes from a lineage of Japanese and Pennsylvania Dutch ceramicists. She uses clay, steel, and found objects to explore entanglements between organic and inorganic materials, form and deformity, and digestion. By combining handbuilding and casts of her family and vegetables, she is constructing a speculative archaeology. 

Troxell received a BS in Studio Art from Skidmore College, a Post-Graduate certificate in painting from the Glasgow School of Art, and an MFA from Cornell University. She has been artist in residence at Skowhegan, Sharpe - Walentas, MacDowell, Yaddo, Sculpture Space, the Studios at MASSMoCa, Woodstock Byrdcliffe, Willapa Bay AiR, The Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, China, Dumfries House, Scotland, and Daugavpils Rothko Center, Latvia. Troxell’s work has been included in exhibitions in New York City at Swivel Gallery, Hesse Flatow, Wave Hill, Bridget Donahue, Jack Hanley, 125 Maiden Lane, and Alison Bradley Projects. She has also been included in exhibitions at the The Johnson Museum of Art, Neighbors, String Gallery, Cohen Gallery, Haw Contemporary, shedshows, and the Hartnett Gallery, among others.