Kiran Sahgal

Instagram: @yay_kiku

Bio: Kiran Sahgal is a ceramic artist living in Oakland, California. Sahgal spent his formative years in Ojai, California. There he apprenticed under the guise of Mark Churchill. It was when he transferred to California College of the Arts that he began building sculpture. Sahgal received his BFA in ceramics from CCA in 2022. He now manages the sculpture and ceramics studios for the college. His work has been shown in galleries around the Bay, Los Angeles, Tokyo and Kyoto. You can find his sculptures hidden around here and there.

Statement: I am seeking comprehension through materials and temperature. Approaching sculpture with a background in traditional pottery I am interested in the lines that inform an object’s purpose. Understanding which fundamental qualities can be shifted and repurposed, I am attempting to blur the line of functionality. I stubbornly cling to function as a means to give my work a reason to be. This piece is from the school of form with no function. A place that I don’t typically tread. A sculpture contains many good and bad days. I’m left wondering what this object will do now that it exists. What will it see when I am long gone?