Sandra Khalifa is a first-generation Southern Californian and the daughter of Egyptian immigrants. Her handbuilding clay practice, which begun in 2023, investigates identity and what is lost, found, or transmuted across generations. Working primarily in large sculptures and vessels, she draws on the details — both striking and harsh — of the landscapes she has called home, especially in her own backyard of Los Angeles. Her work reflects on memory and its shifting forms over time, using clay as a space to hold, reshape, and reimagine the stories we inherit.

Sandra is currently an Ellsworth Resident at ArtShare LA and also practices at Sooki Studio in Frogtown, Los Angeles. She has attended workshops at the Infinite School (Los Angeles, CA) and Penland School of Craft (Bakersville, NC). She holds a B.A. in History from the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied race and immigration in urban 20th-century America.

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