BIO

Lotus Bermudez (b. 1977, Webster, TX)

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Lotus Bermudez is a Southeast Texas native and multi-cultural third generation Chinese American with three decades of experience in ceramics. She is a ceramist, educator, clay community advocate and co-owns Third Coast Clay, a Houston based ceramic studio. Bermudez received her Master of Fine Arts in 2004 and was mentored by Huey Beckham and early influenced by Luis Jimenez. She is a 2025 Jones Artist Award recipient from Houston Endowment, 2025 and 2023 artist grantee from Houston Arts Alliance through the City of Houston, creator of the World’s Largest Clay Tools sculpture, sits on the board of the Texas Clay Festival, is a former Artist-in-Residence at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, worked on multiple ceramic public art installations with Houston SPARK Parks (two of which were with the Houston Museum of Fine Arts), and former chair of Empty Bowls Houston.

Lotus has exhibited at the Art Museum of South Texas (Corpus Christi), Kentucky Museum of Art (Louisville), Houston City Hall Rotunda, Dishman Art Museum (Beaumont, TX), Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Foltz Gallery (Houston, TX), Front Gallery (Houston, TX), Mixed Bag Gallery (Houston, TX), Art House at the Jones Center (Austin, TX), Blaffer Gallery (Houston, TX), Janette Kennedy Gallery (Dallas, TX),  Live Oak Art Center (Columbus, TX), Avis Frank Gallery (Galveston, TX), Coop Gallery (San Angelo, TX), The Art Studio Inc. (Beaumont, TX), and the San Antonio Art League & Museum.

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Image Credit: Nicki Evans Photo & Weingarten Art Group