Isys Hennigar is a North Carolina based artist working primarily in ceramics, as well as metal and wood. Her work invokes real and reimagined ecological encounters, exploring the ways in which the natural world is constructed, interpreted, and mythologized. Referencing stories and land use histories, often in the southeastern US, her work takes the form of site-oriented research and sculpture. Her work considers the production and embodiment of place in dialogue with clay’s metaphorical relationship to the body, as well as with histories of metal adornment and objects of protection.
Hennigar received her MFA from the University of Georgia and her BFA from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Exhibitions of her work include Signature Contemporary Craft (Atlanta, GA), Sow & Tailor Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), The American Museum of Ceramics (Pomona, CA), and the North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh, NC). She is the 2024 recipient of the South Arts North Carolina State Fellowship and 2025 recipient of the Brightwork Fellowship. She currently teaches at the University of Georgia.
