Priyanka Rana

Priyanka
Rana

  • Wood Sculpture
  • SF Bay Area, CA
  • Practice Est. 2018

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Dream — a tall carved wood sculpture with a rust-toned surface, standing against a plain studio wall. Dream — Carved Wood ⟶
20 Works in Catalogue
2018 — Present
Redwood · Oak · Mixed Media
Public Works: Palo Alto + Dublin, CA
Dream, viewed horizontally — the carved wood form laid on its side, showing the length of its charred and rust-toned grain.
W.— Dream 10 Photographs / 07 Motion Studies View the Work ⟶

Index of Works

Twenty sculptures, each with two or more photographs. Filter the field by material, year, or availability — the index re-flows as one pool.

Material
Year
Availability

Showing 20 / 20 Works

Works still awaiting a catalogue year appear only under the full index.

Dream — carved wood sculpture, detail of its tapered upper form.
W.01

Dream

Carved Wood · Price on Request
Healing III — a charred oak sculpture with a smooth carved hollow.
W.02

Healing III

2023 · Charred Oak · $3,000

It was Time to Go — a charred redwood form.
W.03

It was Time to Go

2025 · Charred Redwood · $3,500

New Growth — a charred redwood sculpture.
W.04

New Growth

2024 · Charred Redwood · $7,000

Relic — a wood sculpture, newly photographed.
W.05

Relic

Price on Request

Wood Blocks — stacked carved wood forms.
W.06

Wood Blocks

Wood · Price on Request

Monsoon — a charred redwood sculpture set with sand.
W.07

Monsoon

2025 · Charred Redwood + Sand · $15,000

Memory Palace — a charred redwood sculpture threaded with sari fabric.
W.08

Memory Palace

2025 · Charred Redwood + Sari Threads · $15,000

Holding Hope — a charred redwood sculpture.
W.09

Holding Hope

2025 · Charred Redwood — In a Private Collection

Taming the expectations — a charred oak sculpture set with rose prickles.
W.10

Taming the expectations

2024 · Charred Oak + Rose Prickles · $3,000

Reeds — douglas fir stems with anodized aluminum.
W.11

Reeds

2023 · Douglas Fir + Anodized Aluminum · $6,000

Kos Minar — a charred oak sculpture wrapped with fabric.
W.12

Kos Minar

2023 · Charred Oak + Fabric — In a Private Collection

Dear Child, Safe Space — a partially charred oak sculpture.
W.13

Dear Child, Safe Space

2023 · Partially Charred Oak · $10,000

Two bodies healing — a partially charred oak sculpture of two joined forms.
W.14

Two bodies healing

2022 · Partially Charred Oak · $10,000

Memories — a charred oak sculpture with sari fabric.
W.15

Memories

Charred Oak + Sari Fabric · Price on Request

Destiny — Lines That Walked With Me — a charred oak sculpture with fabric.
W.16

Destiny—Lines That Walked With Me

Charred Oak + Fabric · Price on Request

Distancing — a sculpture of ceramic and wood.
W.17

Distancing

Ceramic + Wood · Price on Request

Invitation to Play — an outdoor redwood sculpture with threads.
W.18

Invitation to Play

Redwood + Threads · Outdoor · Price on Request

What's At Play — a sculpture of repurposed toys and wood.
W.19

What's At Play

Repurposed Toys + Wood · Price on Request

Born of Wood — a carved wood sculpture.
W.20

Born of Wood

Price on Request

About
Studio record — Priyanka Rana at work on a wood sculpture.

Born in India in 1980 and now based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Priyanka Rana is a sculptor whose practice engages ecology, material intelligence, and the layered temporalities held within wood. Having lived across three continents—including formative periods in India and France—she works at the intersection of cultural memory and place-based knowledge, blending scientific awareness with ancestral understandings of the natural world.

Trained in mathematics and economics, Rana brings an analytical sensibility to form and process. She established her full-time practice in 2018, developing a self-directed, immersive relationship with wood grounded in experimentation, physical labor, and sustained material attunement.

Born
1980, India
Based
SF Bay Area, CA
Practice
Full-time since 2018
2025
Work etched on nanofiche, lunar time capsule

Selected Exhibitions

Our Stories Live Underground, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA2025
Transformations, Museu de la Pell Cal Boyer, Igualada, Spain2025
Made of Memories, New Museum of Los Gatos, CA2024
A Question of Balance, Museum of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, CA2024
Echo, public artwork commissioned by the City of Dublin, CA2022
Window of Inspiration, public artwork, City of Palo Alto, CA2021