The work of Renata Petersen (Guadalajara, MX, 1993) addresses themes of a religious and social nature, not devoid of dark humor. In the form of vignettes closely related to comics and caricature, she produces satirical revisions of topics with powerful repercussions in the popular domain, such as cults, urban legends, gender roles, contemporary sexuality, and the implicit subjectivity in "bad taste". In her pieces, there is a particular interest in intertwining referential nods to the works of artists such as Mike Kelley, Sarah Lucas, Raymond Pettibon, or Kim Gordon, with her own obsession with pornography, scatology, and hyper-consumerist trash television, through a production tied to traditionally artisanal techniques from Guadalajara, such as ceramics and blown glass.

Renata Petersen lives and works in Guadalajara. She studied for her degree in Plastic and Visual Arts at the National School of Painting, Sculpture, and Printmaking "La Esmeralda" at INBA (Mexico City, Mexico). She has exhibited individually and collectively at MUSA (Museum of Arts of the University of Guadalajara) and Ladera Oeste (Guadalajara); at Salón ACME, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Museum of the Palace of Fine Arts, and Museum of the Chancellery (Mexico City). She has done residencies at Cuadro 22 (Coira, Switzerland), Fundación Casa Wabi (Oaxaca), and Taller Los Guayabos (Guadalajara). In recent years, her work has been included in public and private collections such as Phillips/Yuyito, the collection of Marcela and José Noé Suro, and Alma Colectiva (Guadalajara), among others.