Ani Lacy (b. 1983) is an American artist, curator, and art historian based in England. Her practice works across ceramics, digital collage, print, and installation to explore migration, cultural memory, and diasporic continuity, with a particular focus on Black Atlantic histories and material culture.

Lacy’s ceramic work centers on wild clay, terracotta, and low-fired processes, including hand-building, burnishing, and pit firing. These slow, embodied methods allow clay to function as both material and archive, holding traces of landscape, labor, and inherited knowledge. Her vessels and sculptural forms draw on historical ceramic traditions shaped by displacement and adaptation, while remaining grounded in contemporary questions of place, ecology, and belonging.

Alongside her ceramic practice, Lacy produces digital collages and prints using archival family photographs, layered imagery, and gestural mark-making. These works reframe histories of Black domestic life, care, and labor, situating women and families within imagined spaces of agency and possibility. Through transparency and repetition, her image-based work extends the same concerns present in her ceramics: how memory is carried and reactivated across generations.

Lacy completed a Master of Fine Arts at Bath Spa University in 2021 and has exhibited her artwork in Bath, London, New York, Seoul, Athens, and Japan. She has undertaken residencies in the United Kingdom, Europe, and Japan, including with the BEPPU Project in Kyushu, where she engaged deeply with local clay and community-based making. Her work has been featured in exhibitions, publications, and public talks that foreground material practice as a form of research.

She is currently completing a PhD in the History of Art at the University of Bristol, where her research focuses on Black Atlantic ceramics using practice-based methodologies. Across all aspects of her work, Lacy is interested in how materials, images, and processes become sites of continuance, offering ways to think through loss, survival, reemergence, and the ongoing making of home.