Red Lodge Clay Center – Short-Term Resident (AIA) 2026
Jeremy Hatch is a Canadian born artist who works with porcelain to create sculpture and installations. He has exhibited widely at venues including: The Memorial Museum in Curitiba Brazil; The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery; The Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, BC; The Icheon World Ceramic Center, Icheon, Korea; the Duolun Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China; The Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids; and The Holter Museum, Helena, Montana. He has been awarded multiple international artist residencies including The Archie Bray Foundation, The European Ceramic Work Center, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, and the Art/Industry Program at Kohler. Hatch is also the founder of Ricochet Studio, a design lab that focuses on creating limited edition ceramic pieces in collaboration with artists from various disciplines. He currently lives in Bozeman, Montana and is an Associate Professor in the School of Art at Montana State University.
I am currently recasting my childhood toy collection in porcelain as part of a series titled The ReCollection. I was raised during the 1980’s, an era when television advertising was deregulated to allow marketing directly to children. This resulted in a wave of new cartoons and a ‘golden age’ of action-figures. (He-Man, G.I. Joe, Star Wars and many more). I’m curious how this phenomenon affected my generation, and I have been exploring these consequences in my studio. By remaking the hyper-masculine and often violent characters in a delicate, precious material such as porcelain I want to alter and complicate the viewer’s interpretation of the subject. This series has expanded to include remixing 18th Century decorative arts objects and notable historical ceramics with action figures, resulting in a peculiar fictional souvenir. I have become particularly interested in the connections to traditions of European porcelain figurines, how they functioned in culture and what they represented in terms of values and hierarchies.