Khalil Jannah (b. 2000) is a Philadelphia-based ceramic artist working across international contexts, whose practice blurs the line between sculpture, architecture, engineering, and performance. He invented the Wetlock Method, a proprietary approach to monumental wheel-throwing built in stacked sections that enables continuous vertical construction at 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 monoliths. They are built, stressed to their limits, and sometimes pushed to failure as a form of material inquiry, with a practice shaped by Buddhist and Quaker sensibilities.

Jannah foregrounds sustainability through material responsibility: reclaiming and reprocessing clay after each action to emphasize material cycles and long-term stewardship. His work investigates how clay—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.

In 2025, he was invited to Jingdezhen’s Global Ceramic Masters program, producing a ten-foot vessel and expanding his research into architectural ceramics. In December 2025, he served as a guest artist at The Clay Studio (Philadelphia). He is scheduled to conduct Wetlock workshops across the GCC in Spring 2026. For exhibitions, residencies, and commissions, please contact via this site.