Zipporah Camile Thompson

Zipporah Camille Thompson (she.her.hers) is a ceramicist, weaver, sculptor, and activist residing upon dispossessed land of the Muskogee in Atlanta, GA. With deep Carolina roots, Thompson explores alchemical transformations through clay + textiles, uplifting marginalized bodies and eliciting social change through her work. Her craft-based practice acknowledges the displacement and sustained oppression of BIPOC folx. Sculpted shapeshifters and landscapes investigate hybridity – taking cues from mythology, the otherworldly, and “make-do” culture, weaving together something from nothing.

Zipporah Camille Thompson earned her MFA from the University of Georgia and her BFA from the University of North Carolina Charlotte.  Her exploratory, unconventional work calls upon craft traditions and with intercultural impact has been featured in digital and physical spaces, both nationally and internationally.

Thompson has accomplished residencies at ACRE Projects, Ox-Bow School of Art, Mass MOCA, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, and POCOAPOCO, MX, amongst others. She is a recipient of a variety of accolades, including most recently, a 2021 MOCA GA Working Artist Project Fellowship recipient and a 2020 Artadia Atlanta Awardee. Zipporah Camille Thompson is represented by Whitespace Gallery (Atlanta, GA). She is a history addict, roller-skater, and lover of unicorns, zombies, the moon, tarot, and all things fantasy.