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.
Renata Petersen holds a degree in Visual Arts from “ La Esmeralda” Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado (INBA, Mexico City, Mexico).
She has exhibited individually and collectively at Ladera Oeste (Guadalajara); Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes and Museo de Cancillería (Mexico City).
She has been part of the artist-in-residence programs at the Hammer Museum (California, USA), Cuadro 22 (Coira, Switzerland), Fundación Casa Wabi (Oaxaca, Mexico) and Taller Los Guayabos (Guadalajara, Mexico).
In recent years her work has been included in public and private collections such as Phillips/Yuyito, the Marcela and José Noé Suro Collection, and Alma Colectiva Collection, among others.
