Isissa Komada-John (b. 1988, New York, NY) is a mixed, Afro-Caribbean artist and designer, raised in Brooklyn and Queens. Working primarily in clay and on paper, her work explores hybridity and the in-between. Her functional and sculptural ritual vessels serve to encourage contemplative practice and support personal and collective liberation.

Isissa is a recipient of fellowships from the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (Multicultural Fellowship), Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (Windgate University Fellowship), and The Color Network. Her work has been exhibited nationally at the Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati, OH), Shaw Center for the Arts (Baton Rouge, LA), Benedicta Arts Center (St. Joseph, MN), and The Leonardo (Salt Lake City, UT), among other galleries. She has been awarded grants and scholarships from Artists’ Literacies Institute and the Penland School of Craft. She was a 2022 artist-in-residence at Township 10.

In the past, Isissa served as the Exhibitions Manager and Designer for the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, and as the Exhibitions Director of the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts in Brooklyn. She holds an A.B. in Africana Studies from Brown University.

Isissa enjoys practices that support presence and healing, and has been a student of Buddhism for over ten years. She currently makes art and home on unceded Cherokee land in the mountains of Western North Carolina.