Patrick Pettersson was born in the United States to a Mexican family in 1970. After graduating in Visual Arts from the University of Texas at Austin (1994), he returned to Mexico where he has developed most of his artistic career.

He has been a member of the National System of Artistic Creators of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts on two occasions (2011 – 2013 and 2019 – 2021). His work won the Acquisition Prize at the FEMSA Monterrey Biennial (2007) accompanied by a residency at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts et de Design de St. Etienne, France.

His work has been part of exhibitions in important cultural institutions in our country such as the Tamayo Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Monterrey Arts Center, the San Ildefonso Museum and the Luis Barragán House. He has a long history of exhibitions in well-known galleries in Mexico and other countries.

He currently resides and works in Valle de Bravo, Mexico