Khalil Jannah (b. 2000) is a Philadelphia-based ceramic artist working at the intersection of sculpture, performance, engineering, and architecture. Through his ongoing Chasing Giants series, he develops monumental wheel-thrown ceramics as a form of “wheel-thrown architecture,” pushing clay, gravity, and the body to their limits.

He is the inventor of the Wetlock Method, a proprietary process for building architectural-scale ceramic monoliths through continuous vertical construction. Rooted in experimentation, failure, sustainability, and material risk, Jannah’s work reimagines clay as both structure and performer.

Jannah’s fired works shift from performance artifacts into sculptural objects informed by Buddhist trikāya frameworks and Quaker philosophies of observation, stillness, and inquiry. Their surfaces and atmospheric firings respond directly to the environmental conditions surrounding each construction, allowing smoke, flame, ash, gravity, and time to become active collaborators in the final work.

In 2025, Jannah was invited to Jingdezhen’s Global Ceramic Masters program, where he produced a ten-foot vessel as the youngest and only U.S.-born participating artist. His Chasing Giants films have reached international audiences, with select works licensed by Apple.