Patricia Currie Wren is a multidisciplinary artist of Scottish descent working in San Francisco, California. Urban scavenger and explorer, she notices the imprints of people on the urban environment and celebrates those impressions through collage, post/mail art, mixed media (watercolor and ink), printing (collography and monotype) and pottery. She enjoys the overlap of different media when responding to city streets, much as the fabric of cities are created in the intersection of contrasts.

Wren grew up in New Jersey in the post-punk 80s and received her B.A. in Art History and English Literature at Rutgers University.  She participated in workshops on street photography and artist books at the Tate Modern while living in London 2002 – 2006. Since moving to California in 2006, she has studied photography, pottery, and paper-related disciplines: folding, artistamp perforating, paper making, printmaking, bookmaking, and participated in a workshop with the renowned Creativity Explored with whom she collaborates on an ongoing mail art program.

Her creative practices interpret the urban experience and sense of place through texture and layers, humor, collection and construction, and photographic images. She sees her work as the creation of artifacts of noticeable moments.

Wren is a member of the Society of Scottish Artists (and has dual dual-citizenship with the United Kingdom, courtesy of her Glaswegian father), has participated in Brooklyn Art Library Sketchbook projects, and volunteers at SF Center for the Book and the SF SPCA. She is a show-runner for the SF Correspondence Co-op and participates in international mail art exchanges through the International Union of Mail Artists.  Her work appears in the book Folklore of the Upper Nithsdale: Stories of Witches, Ghosts & Other Spirits from Sanquhar Scotland Interpreted by 21st Century Collage Artists (2023) and has been in exhibits in Sanquhar, Scotland, the Knoxville Museum of Art, Creativity Explored’s Mail Art 2.0 exhibit at the Minnesota Street Project, and in the group exhibition EIGHT at the Kenton Post Office in Portand, Oregon. Her first solo exhibit is in collaboration with artist and gallery owner, David Reposar, at his Venus & Victory Studio gallery in December 2023 in San Francisco.