Art has always had a presence in Jonna Pedersen's life - in some way or another.

When Pedersen was 20 years old she stayed one year in Paris. Here she visited every single art museum - many times, and learned a great deal from the great masters. There was one museum in particual that she always returned to. That was the Picasso Museum in the Marais district. Here she really felt at home.

It was not until Pedersen was older that she fully understood that she had to choose to make art full time. When she let fall the parades and took art seriously life made sense to her.

After that the artistic insights and the artistic recognition appeared quickly. In 2005 Pedersen had two art works admitted at the nationally juried Charlottenborg's Spring Exhibition and the art critic Ole Lindboe wrote the book "The breadth of reality. Jonna Pedersen and Painting". In 2006 Pedersen had art works admitted to all the nationally juried exhibitions and exhibited at two group shows in New York at Heidi Cho Gallery and Monkdogz Urban Art Gallery. The same year she was awarded a large working grant from Hielmstierne-Rosencroneske Foundation as well as travel grants from the Toyota Foundation and the Oticon Foundation.

During the past 6 years her art works have been admitted at 9 juried exhibitions in Denmark and she has received 2 Honorable Awards at juried exhibitions abroad. In 2008 Pedersen created a frieze consisting of 5 paintings showing motives from Christianshavn in Copenhagen. The paintings form part of a decoration of The Foundation of Finance headquartered in Christianshavn. Same year Pedersen received a travel grant from The Danish Arts Foundation and exhibited for the third time in New York. In 2009 she ended a decoration of the company Cobi Rehab and was portrayed by art critic Ole Lindboe in the television broadcast "Kunst-i-øjet" at Channel DK4. Along the way she has exhibited in galleries and art halls in Berlin, Barcelona and throughout Denmark.

In 2003 Pedersen was educated at Bjørn Ignatius Øckenholts School of Visual Arts Copenhagen; Ealing Art College in London and she has been taught by the artist Håkan Nyström. In addition, she holds an MA in International Business from University of Southern Denmark.

It is important for Jonna Pedersen to constantly work with her art and to challenge herself. She feels that her life and her art are connected. The things and the themes that she deals with in her art are either rooted in her past or appear from her every day life.

Jonna Pedersen's artistic ambition is to tell something essential about what is generally valid and create art works to which people can relate.

As a child Pedersen had a playhouse where she played a lot and where her imagination had free rein. The studio that she shares with her boy friend the artist Bjørn Eriksen is named after her old playhouse and is simply called "the playHOUSE". This is where she works and lives next door.