Renata Zerner

Germany  1951

Renata Zerner was born in German in 1951. Renata is a painter and printmaker whose work has been exhibited in the United States and internationally. She works in oils, watercolors, and various print media. This exhibition shows her monoprints, etchings, and non-representational collages. Born and educated in Berlin, Renata left Germany after World War II and came to Los Angeles in 1951. She studied art at the UCLA Extension Program and with the Los Angeles artist Keith Finch. She first exhibited her work in a two-man show at Keith Finch’s studio in 1968. More group and solo shows followed in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Switzerland, and Germany. She recently completed her autobiography, Bound to Witness, about her life in Nazi Germany.