Bio

For over 20 years as a professional artist, René Cigler bestowed her dynamic creations upon the world, sharing enlightenment on various modes of fashion with handmade jewelry and body adornment, sculptures, sketches, and paintings.

Her artwork has been featured in features films such as Tank Girl and Demolition Man, videos, and galleries, during stage performances including the 1992 Lollapalooza tour on stage performances with Ministry, and as products sold in stores. She has been featured in numerous magazines such as Boing Boing, Heavy Metal, Gothic Beauty and the graphic novel Bone Saw.

Many of her sculptures are fused in twists and turns of molded metal, shaped into astonishing objects that are virtually beyond description. Whether it is a vintage car emblem, an antique baby doll head, the bones or skulls of animals, or even a light switch cover from the 1920s, René had a knack for creating the unimaginable out of what most people see as ordinary.

Her creativity extended from the fine art world into the toy industry with her work as a senior designer for such companies as American Greetings, Mattel, Equity Marketing and Hasbro.