Nicole Ponsart is a ceramic sculptor from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She earned her Master of Fine Arts Degree in Visual Arts from Arizona State University and her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Her current work and research utilize both the desert landscape and the vast geologic history of the Southwest as subject and material through her ecologically focused experimental ceramic work.

She is the recipient of numerous grants and scholarships through the British Columbia Arts Council, the Government of British Columbia and Arizona State University. She was awarded one of the International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement Awards for 2025 and graduated as a top Graduate student for the Herberger Institute of Art and Design at Arizona State University. She was selected as an Artist in Residence for the City of Tempe, Arizona, where she participated as a featured artist in their Fence Art program and was selected as an Emerging Artist for 2023 through the Arizona Artists Guild.

Her current research in collected soil, rock and mineral samples investigates the profound relationship makers have with the spaces which they inhabit. Utilizing ceramics practices, watercolour painting and multimedia installation, her current body of work explores what it means to make place, inhabit space and find home while grappling with the complex histories embedded in the land we inhabit.