Khalil Jannah (b. 2000) is an international ceramic artist whose practice blurs the line of sculpture, architecture, engineering, and performance art. Based in Philadelphia, he invented the Wetlock Method, a groundbreaking approach to monumental wheel-throwing that enables continuous clay forms to reach architectural scale through precision, structural logic, and design. His ongoing series Chasing Giants explores ambition, survival, detachment, and the structural language of vessels as vertical monuments built, stressed to their limits, and often destroyed in public-while also exploring sustainability through reclaiming and reprocessing clay after each action to foreground material cycles and material responsibility.

 

Jannah has delivered international talks on the cross section of ceramics, architecture, engineering, and performance art, translating studio innovation into broader conversations about structure, risk, and contemporary craft. His published essays have appeared in Studio Potter. In 2025, he was the youngest global artist, and one of only nine worldwide, invited to Jingdezhen's prestigious Global Ceramic Masters program, where he produced a ten-foot vessel and expanded his research into architectural ceramics. In December 2025, he was a guest artist at The Clay Studio (Philadelphia).

 

Looking ahead, Jannah is scheduled to conduct Wetlock workshops at prominent studios across the GCC in Spring 2026, continuing to work at unprecedented scale while pushing boundaries in contemporary art through new forms, installations, and large-scale public actions. He is also preparing a world-record attempt for the tallest wheel-thrown vase at the end of 2026.

His practice investigates how clay, when scaled beyond its traditional limits-can operate as both structure and performer, proposing new possibilities for contemporary art at the intersection of material intelligence, engineering, and public action.