“Palayok,” 2025, earthenware, net. 84 × 86 × 80 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Summer Escaño Aquino
Windgate-Lamar Fellowship
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2026
Summer Escaño Aquino is a transdisciplinary artist from the Philippines, currently based in Alfred, New York. Their work has been published by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Nasher Sculpture Center magazine, Picnic Curatorial Projects, and Mortadella, among others. They’ve exhibited at venues such as Kunsthaus Salzwedel in Germany, the Power Station in Dallas, and Turner Gallery in Alfred, New York. They are the recipient of a 2023 Dallas Museum of Art Kimbrough Artist Award; a 2024 Fellowship Award at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine; and a 2026 National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts Regina Brown Fellowship.
Summer’s work encircles the reconciliation between the infinite and the subtleties of personal sensation. Craft allows them to ground these poetic connections down to something tangible. With clay, they explore the development of ideas through touch that have led to functional ceramic objects, performances, public art, and site-responsive installations. At the core of their practice is experimentation and integration of concept with material.
Selected works
“Palayok” (detail), 2025, earthenware, net. 84 × 86 × 80 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Moon Dust,” 2020–ongoing, ceramic material simulating lunar geochemistry, dimensions variable. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“FRUITBODY,” 2024 public art installation using wood-fired ceramic inoculated with lion’s mane mycelium, organic matter, glass, steel, thermometer, vaporizer, timer, incubation log. Vitrine: 35 × 20 × 20 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“FRUITBODY” (detail), 2024, public art installation using wood-fired ceramic inoculated with lion’s mane mycelium, organic matter, glass, steel, thermometer, vaporizer, timer, incubation log. Vitrine: 35 × 20 × 20 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Ghost Pipes,” 2024, ceramic, 10 × 11 × 8 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Pouring and pouring and,” 2024, ceramic, 9 × 10.5 × 3.5 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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