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Renata Petersen
Guadalajara, 1993
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Her work addresses themes of religious and social character, not exempt from black humor. In the form of vignettes, with a close relationship to comics and cartoons, she produces from satirical revisions to subjects with powerful repercussions in popular culture such as sects, urban legends, gender roles, contemporary sexuality, and the subjectivity implicit in "bad taste".

She has a particular interest in interweaving referential winks to works by artists such as Mike Kelley, Sarah Lucas, Raymond Pettibon, or Kim Gordon, with her own obsession with pornography, eschatology, and hyper-consumerist junk TV, through a production linked to traditional Guadalajara's artisan techniques, such as ceramics and blown glass.

Lives and works in Guadalajara.

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Renata Petersen studied a bachelor’s degree in Visual and Plastic Arts at Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado “La Esmeralda”, INBA (Mexico City), from 2013 to 2017.

She has exhibited her work at solo and group shows in MUSA (Museo de las artes de la Universidad de Guadalajara) and Ladera Oeste (Guadalajara); Salón ACME, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, and Museo de Cancillería (Mexico City).

She has been resident of Cuadro 22, Chur, Switzerland; Fundación Casa Wabi, located in Oaxaca; and Taller Los Guayabos at Guadalajara.

Petersen's work is part of public and private collections such as Phillips/Yuyito, Marcela and José Noé Suro collection, and Alma Colectiva (Guadalajara), among others.

Selection of Works
Renata Petersen
Votive Constructions II
Glazed ceramic
75 x 160 x 80 cm
2024
Renata Petersen
Raging Women
Glazed ceramic
80.5 x 142 x 5 cm
2023
Renata Petersen
Teen Girls, Virgins, Schoolgirls, Tiny Babes
Glazed ceramic
46 x 61 x 5 cm
2023
Renata Petersen
Ugly Art for Ugly People
Glazed ceramic
61 x 61 x 5 cm
2023
Renata Petersen
The Family
High temperature glazed ceramic
86 x 47 x 47 cm
2023
Renata Petersen
Goodnight sweet little motherfucker / A preacher who cant preach anymore is dead anyhow. He knew that. He knew that what he was killing was already dead
High temperature glazed ceramic
79 x 39 x 39 cm
2023
Renata Petersen
La amnesia tapatía
Glazed ceramic
73 x 30 x 30 cm
2023
Renata Petersen
MENHIR: Megalitismo 5 / MENHIR: Megalitismo 2
Pink Marble (Tepeaca, PUE)
30 x 150 x 45 cm / 138 x 50 x 50 cm
2023
Renata Petersen
Two Old Folks Kissing
Glazed ceramic
29 x 21 cm
2023
Renata Petersen
Cuca
Glazed ceramic
20 x 20 cm
2023
Renata Petersen
A-Bomb
Glazed ceramic
27 x 27 cm
2023
Renata Petersen
La venida del señor
Glazed ceramic
23 x 23 cm
2023
Renata Petersen
La fortaleza de cristal humo cromado
Blown glass and silver
14.9 x 33.4 x 22.4 in
2022
Renata Petersen
La fortaleza de cristal cromo
Blown glass and silver
80 x 53 x 28 cm
2022
Renata Petersen
Teópolis III
Glazed ceramic
125 x 100 x 360 cm
2022
Renata Petersen
Teópolis III (detalle)
Glazed ceramic
125 x 100 x 360 cm
2022
Renata Petersen
Jim Jones
Glazed ceramics
71 x 32 x 32 cm
2022
Renata Petersen
Panóptico manga
Glazed ceramics
71 x 25 x 25 cm
2022
Renata Petersen
The She-Demon
Glazed ceramic
25.59 x 11.8 inches
2022
Renata Petersen
Escaping polygamy
Glazed ceramic
21.6 x 9 x 9 inches
2022
Renata Petersen
Teópolis
Glazed ceramics
Variable dimensions
2022
Renata Petersen
Teópolis (detalles)
Glazed ceramics
Variable dimensions
2022
Renata Petersen
Daybreak Digest
Toilet roll and vegan ink
2021
Renata Petersen
Sin título (3-60)
Glazed ceramic
5.9 inches (diameter)
2021
Renata Petersen
La fortaleza de cristal (ámbar)
Blown glass and fused glass
31.5 x 20.87 x 11.02 inches
2021
Renata Petersen
La fortaleza de cristal (cobalto)
Blown and fused glass
31.5 x 20.87 x 11 inches
2021
Renata Petersen
La fortaleza de la soledad
Glazed ceramics and steel work
Variable dimensions
2020
Renata Petersen
La fortaleza de la soledad
Glazed ceramics and steel work
Variable dimensions
2020
Renata Petersen
Girls Romances
High temperature ceramic
22.04 x 27.95 x 13.38 inches
2020
Renata Petersen
Heavens Girl
High temperature ceramic
9.45 x 6.1 x 30.71 x 7.87 inches
2020
Renata Petersen
Sin título (1-4)
Glazed ceramic
11.81 inches (diameter)
2019
Renata Petersen
Sin título (1-32)
Glazed ceramic
11.81 inches (diameter)
2019
Renata Petersen
Limpieza karmática
Glazed ceramics
Variable dimensions
2019
Renata Petersen
IMPOSTOR (from the series Bad drawings for bad people)
Indian ink on cotton paper
27.56 x 35.43 inches
2016
Renata Petersen
Gods Whores (from the series Bad drawings for bad people)
Indian ink on cotton paper
35.43 x 27.56 inches
2018
Renata Petersen
S1: Topografía de una conversación
Graphite on cotton paper (polyptych)
47.24 x 47.24 inches
2016
Exhibitions at Pequod
Renata Petersen
TEOPOLIS
08/27/2022 - 10/22/2022
Related Content
1/7/2024
Renata Petersen joins the 2024 artist-in-residence program at the Hammer Museum
5/3/2024
Renata Petersen and Cristóbal Gracia are part of the exhibition Cerámica Suro: una historia de colaboración, producción y coleccionismo en el arte contemporáneo, presented at the Fundación Casa de México en España
28/11/2023
Renata Petersen and Joaquín Segura are parte of ARTISTS AGAINST THE BOMB
4/11/2023
Renata Petersen in Acapulco 62
19/4/2023
Cristóbal Gracia and Renata Petersen at Dallas Contemporary with the Cerámica Suro collection
17/4/2023
Renata Petersen on Artnet News about her collaboration with Celine
23/9/2022
Petersen at curated group show by Viviana Kuri: Oklahoma Contemporary
29/7/2022
Petersen's work highlighted by Sotheby's
26/6/2022
Petersen collaborates with Maison CELINE
19/2/2022
Petersen will be at joségarcía,mx ' s group show
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