Renée Lotenero

Born in Cleveland in 1977, Renée Lotenero lives and works in Los Angeles and Lisbon, Portugal she earned a BFA from Art Center College of Design in 2002 and an MFA in Sculpture from UCLA in 2004.  Lotenero has had solo exhibitions at McClain Gallery, Houston, raw & co Gallery, Cleveland and Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles. In the fall of 2008 she had her first solo museum exhibition at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan. Her work has been featured in various group shows including THING: New Sculpture from Los Angeles, Hammer Museum.  Almost 30, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita. Interstitial, Pasadena Museum of Contemporary Art.  Photo and Phantasy, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard and Supercalifragilistic (Mistaken Landscape), La Ville Matte, Sardinia,Italy.  She was also a visiting artist at the America Academy in Rome in 2005, an ARC grant recipient in 2008. Lotenero has spent over a decade between Europe and the U.S creating work that investigates architecture in a state of flux. From temporary installations to small scale sculptures and drawings each piece explores the opposing idea of deconstruction and construction.  The work appears to be simultaneously frozen in a state of growth and collapse, conjuring notions of architectural entropy, the unfinished, and decay.

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