Monica Rickhoff Wilson is an American artist born in Colorado whose interdisciplinary practice explores material culture through ceramics, sculpture, and installation. She earned a Master of Fine Arts from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2026 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics and Sculpture from Eastern Michigan University in 2003. Her work has been exhibited throughout Michigan, as well as in Chicago and upstate New York. Selected exhibition venues include WSG Gallery (Ann Arbor, Michigan), Pewabic Pottery (Detroit, Michigan), the Muskegon Museum of Art (Muskegon, Michigan), the Robertson Gallery at the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center (Birmingham, Michigan), and Steidel Contemporary at SOFA Chicago. Her work is represented by WSG Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Wilson's research integrates ceramic materials, glaze chemistry, and domestic architecture to investigate how everyday objects shape cultural memory, labor, and systems of value.

Residencies and workshops include Cranbrook Academy of Art, Penland School of Craft, Penland, North Carolina; Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, Colorado; Centro de Arte Curaumilla, Valparaiso, Chile; Maker Works, Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Kripal Kumbh Pottery in Jaipur, India. Experience in glaze chemistry, photography, metal casting and fabrication, and plaster mold-making supplement her studio art practice. She works at the Potters Guild and from her home studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

"I am a ceramic sculptor and I formulate my own glazes. I bridge chemistry, geology, and art to create objects relating to comfort and desire. This current body of photography and sculpture stems from working at home during the pandemic. Close physical quarters fed the photography and the photography now feeds the ceramic sculpture. My ceramics are conglomerates of porcelain and terracotta, layers of color and pattern, and are fused with high and low temperature glazes. I use movement, weight, and the impulse to hold and keep, to build visceral sensations in both image and object.” -Monica Rickhoff Wilson, January 2023