Horse I, 2024

Ceramic sculpture

11 x 8 x 3 1/2 inches

Fair Market Value: $8,000

Starting Bid: $5,600

Buy It Now: $12,000

RAVEN HALFMOON is an artist and sculptor from Norman, Oklahoma. She is a citizen of the Caddo Nation and also Choctaw, Delaware, and Otoe Missouria. Working mainly in portraiture, Halfmoon hand-builds each work using a coil method. Her surfaces are expressive and show deep finger impressions and dramatic dripping glazes, a physicality that presences her as both maker and matter. She fuses Caddo pottery traditions-a history of making mostly done by women-with populist gestures, often tagging her work in a reference to Caddo tattooing.

Halfmoon holds a double bachelor's degree from the University of Arkansas, where she majored in ceramics/painting and cultural anthropology. In 2023, Halfmoon's solo exhibition, Flags of Our Mothers, was featured at The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (Ridgefield, Connecticut) and in 2024 at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. Halfmoon's next solo exhibition, Neesh & Soku (Moon & Sun), opened at Salon 94 (New York, New York) in September 2024.

Halfmoon's sculptures are in the permanent collections of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, and the Montclair Art Museum. In 2023, she was selected as an Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellow (Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana), and in 2024, she was a finalist for the international Loewe Craft Prize (Loewe Foundation, Madrid, Spain). Halfmoon is represented by Kouri+Corrao Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Ross+Kramer Gallery in New York, New York.