Hong Zhangliang is a contemporary artist and researcher whose practice is rooted in Jiao Tai (marbled clay / agateware), a ceramic technique that emerged in Tang–Song China.

Over the past decade, he has pursued a research-driven practice tracing Jiao Tai’s shifting trajectories across China, the UK, the US, and Japan. He approaches the technique as both a material system and a cultural index—marked by circulation, interruption, and return. Working with material and process as method, he draws on geological and material-science models (including mineral crystallization sequences and weathering–deposition processes) and translates them into studio protocols. By introducing mineral powders, metal oxides, and fluxes into clay, and firing across different temperatures and kiln atmospheres, he develops hybrid materials that sit between clay, glaze, and glass. Through layering, slicing, assembling, and forming, pattern becomes structural rather than decorative.

Recent projects move beyond the vessel into installations that combine ceramics and moving image, producing forms that test the threshold between inorganic matter and organic morphology. His work has been featured in Wallpaper*, DAZED, ELLE DECORATION, IDEAT, LEAP, and Life Magazine, and profiled in Chinese Handicraft.