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Daniel Christopher PontorieroUnited States → MilanEst. 2000

Dapo seated at a wide studio table surrounded by unfinished clay pieces and tools — Portrait 01 / StudioMaterial in progress

Artist / Ceramicist

I make objects
that keep moving.

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01

Wheel-thrown ↗
Handbuilt ↗
Always becoming

Practice note / 001Milano

Clay begins as control. Then pressure, gravity and instinct pull it somewhere less certain.

Functional objects ↗Sculptural bodies ↗Human gestures ↗

Available / Selected

Works

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Giallo, a yellow ceramic sculpture

Giallo

Handbuilt sculpture · 2025

Ascendance, a blue ceramic bowl with climbing figures

Ascendance

Wheel-thrown stoneware · 2026

Dark Knight Diptych, a pair of dark glazed vessels

Dark Knight

Glazed diptych · 2026

Radiance, a yellow and black glazed moon jar

Radiance

Moon jar · 2025

DAPOTTERY ceramic work installed in a bright contemporary gallery — Exhibitions / Recent presentations / 2025—26

Exhibitions / Selected recent

Recent
exhibitions.

Selected presentations of DAPOTTERY work across Milan and Lombardy.

01 / Apr 9—16, 2026 Argilla Frattura Matteo Mauro Studio · Milan 02 / Jan 22, 2026 Gruppo Cosmo Milan · Group exhibition 03 / Nov 22, 2025 Castello Belgioioso Lombardy · Group exhibition

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Field notes / 2024—26

The studio
travels.

Dapo throwing a tall vessel during the Menemen pottery competition

20 minutes / one form / in public

2026Argilla FratturaMatteo Mauro Studio · Milan 2025Young Artist TracesMenemen · Türkiye 2025International CompetitionMenton · France 2026International CompetitionFaenza · Italy

Work with Dapo / Milan

Touch the
material.

01 / Experience

Private pottery

Time at the wheel or handbuilding, shaped around your pace.

€50 · Reserve ↗ 02 / Course

Eight weeks

A progressive introduction to centering, form, repetition and confidence.

€380 · Explore ↗ 03 / Collaborate

Commission

Objects, editions and one-off works for collectors, spaces and tables.

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