ROB KING

The high desert terrain serves as both inspiration and supply chain for most of the work produced by Robert King. Robert, a practicing physician and member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, is a self-taught potter who continuously seeks new ways to express himself, utilizing the natural resources found in the surrounding landscape. Respectfully collaborating with the wild clay, rocks, minerals, sand and trees surrounding his Galisteo home and studio, he attempts to craft pottery that expresses the organic and natural environment where these materials have rested for centuries. He describes his body of work as “a love letter to the high desert”.

In 2023, Robert won first place for abstract sculpture at Santa Fe Indian Market. In 2024, he was awarded Emerging Artist Fellowship Recipient from the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts. He has exhibited across New Mexico and at the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, in Virginia, and at the American Museum of Ceramic Art, in Pomona, California.

His work is available at his Duende Gallery, housed in northern New Mexico’s oldest dance hall, La Sala de San José in Galisteo, an enchanting space that dates back to the 1890s.