Kerry Kirkpatrick is a ceramic artist whose work is currently shown at the KK CONTEMPORARY gallery in Santa Fe, NM. Kerry grew up in an Apache community in the White Mountains of Arizona which had an early influence on her perspective. Her clay immersion began while she was a high school student at a private boarding school in Utah.

While attending the University of Arizona, she studied abroad in Greece.  That experience formed a foundation to her sculptural sense of aesthetic.

While pursuing her Masters Degree at New York University, she worked part-time at the Museum of Modern Art. Working in that environment as well as frequent visits to the Metropolitan Museum of Art expanded her artistic vision and creative expression.

From New York, Kerry moved to Santa Fe and worked at a bronze foundry where she was given the opportunity to create a body of work which was displayed in Santa Fe galleries.

Kerry continued her clay studies with several accomplished Santa Fe potters and sculptors including: Arlene Siegel, Debra Fritts, Matt Repsher, Joe Bova, Saddiq Khan, Mike Walsh, and Lee Akins.

Lately she has been living part-time in Mesa, Arizona, where she studies and creates at the Ceramic Department of the Mesa Arts Center.

She creates both slab and thrown clay work. Her bas reliefs, figurative sculpture and abstract forms portray mystery, humor and elements of ancient cultures.