Ryana Lawson is a ceramic artist whose practice centers on handbuilt objects of existential curiosity and whimsy. Each piece is adorned in the flora and fauna from her dreams in a subtle narrative applying magic to the mundane.

Ryana currently resides in Seattle, WA. She recently completed an Artist in Residence at Pottery Northwest from 2023-2019. Ryana received her MFA from Pennsylvania State University in 2019. In 2017, she was an Artist in Residence at Flower City Arts back in Rochester, and received a post-baccalaureate education from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2016. She graduated with a BFA from The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2015.  She has exhibited her work nationally.