Petra Cortright - Bibliography

Lives in Los Angeles, CA

Education

2008	BFA, Parsons School of Design, New York, US
2004	California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA, US

Solo exhibitions

2024	wet sunlight Paradis "pomme de terre" 3D, The Window by CHANEL
	Culture Fund, London, UK
	ULTRAMARINE UNDERWORLD HEARTBROKEN HARDCORE, Société, Berlin, DE
2023	haunted lemon hunted spirit, 1301SW, Melbourne, AU
	micro lemon diamond realm, Starkwhite, Auckland, NZ
2022	sapphire cinnamon viper fairy, Palm Springs,Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA, US
	ultra angel wing absolute, Foxy Production, New York, US
	icy dip fresh petals, Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens San Clemente, California, US
	von ammon co, Washington, DC, US
	Denali F1 Batwing Baby Bear Baby Boo, Brigade, Copenhagen, DK
	Jet fuel gelato sour cherry, L21, Barcelona, ES
2021	BALEAF GYS AKADEMIKS maamgic BROKIG, Société, Berlin, DE
	Predator Swamping, 1301 PE, Los Angeles, US
	Spiced Diamond Pool Earn 4x Points, COUNTY Gallery, Palm Beach
2020	ZUCCHETTE VETTII, L21, Mallorca, ES
	Rouge Vif d’Ètampes, Brigade, Copenhagen, DK
	borderline aurora borealis, Team Gallery, New York, US
	soft ice soft porn soft war, Carl Kostyál, Milan, IT
	icy dip fresh petals, Carl Kostyál, Stockholm, SE
	+FREE +FUCKIN +PICS, von Ammon co., Washington, US
2019	Petra Cortright, Danziger Gallery, New York, US
	Computer Paintings on Linen, Galeria Duarte Sequeira, Braga
	LUCKY DUCK LIGHTS OUT, 1301 PE, Los Angeles, US
2018	Platinum Blonde Black Knight, Société, Berlin, DE
	BEUTYFOL GIRLS XEROX DESERT ROSE, Doota Plaza, Seoul, KR
	Cultural Matter: Petra Cortright, LIMA, Amsterdam, NL
	PALE COIL COLD ANGEL, Nahmad Projects, London, UK
	Petra Cortright and Marc Horowitz, BANK Gallery, Shanghai, CN
	CAM WORLS, UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, US
	lambergani lambirgini lamborghini lambourgini, Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco, US
2017	HUMAN SHEEP BRAIN “ALICE IN WONDERLAND” AMERICANA, Foxy Production,
	New York, US
	RUNNING NEO-GEO GAMES UNDER MAME, City Gallery, Wellington, NZ
	RUNNING NEO-GEO GAMES UNDER MAME, Tristian Koenig, Melbourne, AU
	“kinder surprise” sharky baba, COUNTY Gallery, Palm Beach, US
	quack doctor violet „saltwater fish“, 1301PE, Los Angeles, US
2016	ORANGE BLOSSOM PRINCESS FUCKING BUTTERCUP, Carl Kostyál, London, UK
	DIE ROSE, Société, Berlin, DE
	ZERO-DAY DARLING, Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco, US
	Octopus 16: Antiques Roadshow, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, AU
2015	Niki, Lucy, Lola, Viola, Depart Foundation, Los Angeles, US
	Ily, Foxy Production, New York, US
2014	PETWELT, Société, Berlin, DE
	Petra Cortright, Carl Kostyal, Stockholm, SE
	ASMR, MAMA, Rotterdam, NL
	Family State of Mind, Petra Cortright & Ed Fornieles, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, FR
	Tags for Likes, Commissioned by MOCAtv, MOCA, Los Angeles, US
2013	BLank BLANk bLANk, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, US
	Bridal Shower, Commissioned by Frieze Film 2013 and EMPAC, Broadcast by Channel 4, London, UK
2012	Vicky deep in Spring Valley, Club Midnight, Berlin, DE
	Void Mastery / Blank Control, The Composing Rooms: The Green Room, London, UK
	Video Syrup, Curated by Maggie Lee, Spectacle Theater, New York, US
2011	Beholder, Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, GB-SCT
	SO WET, Preteen Gallery, Mexico City, MX
	Lesbian Kiss Episode, Planet Ummo, Project Space, Mexico City, MX
2010	It Takes Strength to be Gentle and Kind, Gloria Maria Gallery, Milan, IT
	Avatar 4D, Curated by JstChillin, NOMA Gallery, San Francisco, US
	Tits Vagina Sex Nude Boobs Britney Spears Paris Hilton Jordan Capri Honey Moon, Preteen Gallery, Mexico City, MX
2008	Show #20, Petra Cortright & Peter Barrickman, And/Or Gallery, Dallas 010, US

Group exhibitions

2024	Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film,
	LACMA, LA, US
	The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970 – 2020, MCA, Chicago, US
	PETRA CORTRIGHT: In Medias Res: Expanded, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance Crushed Celadon Starlight 'Calafia liveforever 10,000 flowers', Luminex 3.0, Downtown LA, US
2023	A Leap into the Void. Art beyond Matter, GAMeC, Bergamo, IT
	Refreshing the Loop, Museum of the Moving Image, NYC, US
	Behind the screens, CODA, Apeldoorn, NL
2022	Color Code, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts,
	San Francisco, US
	Winter Group Exhibition, Danziger Gallery, New York, US
	Summer Edition, 1201PE, Los Angeles, US
2021	Search Engines, MoMA Collection gallery, New York, US
	Summer Group Exhibition, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, US
	Spatial Affairs, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, HU
	The Light Between Us, Kadist Video Library Online Video Exhibition, kadist.org Body Snatchers (The Church), Church of San Giuseppe, Polignano A Mare Studio Visit, The Centre d’Art Contemporain Genéve, Geneva, CH
	In bed with a mosquito, Galeria Duarte Sequeira, PT
2020	Slippery Painting, Starkwhite, NZ
	The Body Electric, Museum of Art and Design, Miami, US
	Dade College, traveling exhibition, Walker Art Center, Miami, US
	MoMA Virtual Views: Video Lives, MoMA, New York, US
	PAINT, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, US
	In the Meanwhile…Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, US
	Glitch, The American University in Cairo, Tahrir Cultural Center, Cairo, EG
	Permanent Collection display, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
	Petra Cortright, Elizabeth ibarra and Susumu Kamijo, Aliso Editions x The Newsstand Project, Los Angeles, US
2019	Plugged-in Paintings, SITE131, Dallas, US
	HATE SPEECH – AGGRESSION UND INTIMITÄT, Künstlerhaus, KM – Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, AT
	Now Playing: Video 1999-2019, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, US
	The Body Electric, traveling exhibition, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
	Yerba Buena, Center for the Arts, San Francisco, US
	Dirty Protest: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
	Primary Directives, Marlborough Contemporary, London, UK
	Midnight Moment, Times Square Arts, New York, US
	ACE / art on sports, promise, and selfhood, University Art Museum, University at Albany, Albany, US
	PINK_PARA_1STCHOICE, Times Square’s Electronic Billboards, New York, US
	Flora, Brintz Gallery, Palm Beach, US
2018	Par amour du jeu, Magasins généraux, Pantin, FR
	I Was Raised on the Internet, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
	Without Nature, Nicoletti Contemporary, London, UK
	Ten by Ten, CFHILL, Stockholm, SE
2017	4th Ural Industrial Biennial Of Contemporary Art, Curated by João Ribas, Ekaterinburg and other cities of the Ural region, RU
	Wave, County, Palm Beach, US
	The Coverly Set, Sargent’s Daughters, New York, US
	Web 2.0., Organized by Paul Slocum and Thierry Tilquin, Senne, DE
	Discoveries, Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong, CN
2016	Shift, Stretch, Expand: Everyday Transformations, Museum of
	Contemporary Art Santa Barbra, Santa Barbara, US
	Chatham Square, Foxy Production, New York, US
	Electronic Superhighway, Curated by Omar Kholeif, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2015	Always-On, Curated by Steffen Köhn and Prof. Matthias Krings,
	Schule des Sehens, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, DE
	Full of Peril and Weirdness: Painting as Universalism, Curated by Robin Peckham and Wan Wan Lei, M WOODS, Beijing, CN
	Normal Reality, Curated by Jason Judd, University Galleries of Illinois State University, Illinois, US
	Young Americans, Franz-Josef-Kai 3, Vienna, AT
	Catfish, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, US
	The Metabolic Age, Curated by Chus Martinez, MALBA, Buenos Aires, AR
	On YouTube. Kunst und Playlists aus 10 Jahren, Kunsthaus Langenthal, Langenthal, CH
	First Look: Brushes, New Museum, New York, US
	L’art et le numérique en résonance 1/3 : Convergence, La Maison Populaire de Montreuil, Montreuil, FR
	Im Inneren der Stadt, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen, DE
	Anto-Vaport Waves, DINCA VQ '15, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
2014	Farm to Table, Foxy Production, New York, US
	Fútbol: The Beautiful Game, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, US
	Too Soon, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, US
	Liquid Crystal Palace: Recent Works with J. Blake,Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, US
	The Undulation of Something Faintly Familiar, Anat Egbi, Los Angeles, US
	Art Post-Internet, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, CN
	Material Images, Johannes Vogt, New York, US
	Full Screen, XPO, Paris, FR
	You Might Be a Dog, Lab for Emerging Arts and Performance, Berlin, DE
	E Vaport 8, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK
2013	Casting a Wide Net, Postmasters, New York, US
	Paddles On!, Curated by L. Howard, Philips, New York, US
	„D“, ZweiDrei, Berlin, DE
	Frieze Film, Curated by N. Lees and Victoria Brooks, Frieze London, London, UK
	Meanwhile…Suddenly and Then,12th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, FR
	Lonely Girl, Curated by A., Martos Gallery, New York, US
	Sneakererotics: Further Material for a Theory of the Young-Girl, Curated by R. Peckham, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong, CN
	Art Baja Tijuana, Casa GS, Tijuana, MX
	Things That Turn Your Brain to Mush, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, US
	Zonamaco, Steve Turner Contemporary, Mexico City, MX
2012	E-Vapor-8, Curated by F. Gavin, 319 Scholes, New York, US

	Ex-Girlfriends in the Age of Drones, Curated by U. Tittel, Naherholung Strenchen, Berlin, DE
2011	December, De Joode & Kamutzki Winter Auction, Berlin, DE
	LikeArtBasel, Miami Art Basel, Curated by R. Ripps, Sponsored by Artspace, Miami, US
	Notes on a New Nature, Curated by N. O’Brien, 319 Scholes, New York, US
	PDF, Curated by P. Gantert, Allegra LaViola Gallery, New York, US
	Empty Orchestra, Curated by G. Park and S. Rodgers, Eastside Projects, Birmingham Contemporary Art Forum, Birmingham, UK
	Collect the WWWorld: The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age, Curated by D. Quaranta, Settimana dell’Arte, Brescia, IT
	Life on the Screen, Curated by P. Bard, RE/Mixed Media Festival, New York, US
	Keepin’it real, Curated by R. Juan, HungryMan Gallery, Chicago, US
	3 Screenings: Eruption, Curated by E. Fleischauser and J. McLean, Backspace Collective, Peoria, US
	Video Village 2011: New Media Expeditions, Curated by N. Collier and S. Szerlip, Index Art Center, Newark, US
	Life on the Screen, Curated by P. Bard, Joyce Yahouda Gallery, Montreal, CA
	Graphics Interchange Format, Curated by P. Johnson, Mulberry Gallery, Denison University, Granville, CA
	Getting Closer, Fe Arts Gallery, Pittsburgh, US
	Internet Livre, SESC Ribeirao Preto, Sao Paulo, BR
2010	BYOB LA, Gayle & Ed Roski MFA Gallery, University of
	Southern California, Los Angeles, US
	Sister Sister City, Curated by Lindsay Lawson, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Cottage Home, Los Angeles, US
	Domain: Webkam, Live Performance in collaboration with Rhizome.org, SJ01 Biennial, San Jose, US
	Do I Know You, Inman Gallery, Houston, US
	Today and Tomorrow’s 5th Birthday Speed Show, or@nin net Internet cafe, Berlin, DE
	Made in Internet, Curated by M. Ramocki, Artbook Festival, Krakow, PL
	VHS AIDS, Preteen Gallery, Hermosillo, MX
	Multiplex, Curated by VVORK, Peer to Space Sun Galleries, Munich, DE
	Surfing Club, Plug.in Gallery, Basel, CH

	Surfing Club, Espace Multimedia Gantner, Bourogne, FR
	MiArt Art Now!, Milan Art Fair, Gloria Maria Gallery, Milan, IT
	The Brakhage Center Symposium, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, US
	Playlist, Neoncampbase, Bologna, IT
	CIRCA PR, Art Fair with Preteen Gallery, San Juan, PR
	Don't Worry, Be Happy, Showroom Mama, Rotterdam, NL
2009	No Hay Banda, Reference Galllery, Richmond, US
	Funny Games, Curated by J. James, Load of Fun Gallery, Baltimore, US
	Spun 2: art light noise new video art, Monkeytown, New York, US
	The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths, Rapture Heap, Liberty Corner, Dublin, IE
	My Biennale Is Better Than Yours, Xth Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, FR
	Screen Grab, The Nightingale Theatre, Chicago, US
	Speed Conference Call Dating, Envoy Enterprises, New York, US
	SALLYS, Atelier Kreuzberg, Berlin, DE
	PROMO Billboard Np3, Groningen, NL
	New Wave, The Internet Pavilion, The Venice Biennale, Venice, IT
	The New Easy, Artnews Projects, Berlin, DE
	VVork Show, Munich, DE
	Treasure Room, Organised by Loshadka, Light Industry, New York, US
	IRL presented by iheartphotograph, Organised by Loshadka, Capricious space, New York, US
	Get Fucked, Alogon Gallery, Chicago, US
	Endless Pot of Gold CD-Rs (with Nasty Nets), Sundance International Film Festival, Parck City, US
2008	This is a Magazine: Episode 26, Curated by C. Agnello,
	Documentation Center For Visual Arts, Milan, IT
	The New Easy, Amsterdam, NL
	Netmares, Netdreams V 3.0, Current Gallery, Baltimore, US
	Young Curators, New Ideas, Bond Street Gallery, New York, US
	This is a Magazine: Video Object 23, Milan, IT
	Build A Fire, Plexus Contemporary, Louisville, US

	Lizard Gear, Organised by Loshadka, MTAA’s OTO, New York, US
	New York Underground Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, New York, US
	B I T M A P : as good as new, Leonard Pearlsteing Gallery at Drexel University, Philadelphia, US
2007	B I T M A P: as good as new, vertexList, New York, US
	The Sims: In the Hands of Artists, Chelsea at Museum, New York, US
	Nasty Nets Event, Telic Arts Exchange, Los Angeles, US

Public projects and commissions

2019 Webcam still life with flowers: blue, green, and red, Commissioned by Art on

the Mart, Merchandise Mart, Chicago

The Grand, Commissioned by Frank Gehry Partners,

LLP, Downtown Los Angeles, CA

2018 Beutyfol Girls Xerox Desert Rose, Commissioned by

SketchedSpace, Doota Plaza, Seoul, South Korea

2016 Google Pixel Campaign
2014-19 Video collaborations with Stella McCartney

Awards

2014 Tags for Likes, Commissioned by MOCAtv, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA

2013 Bridal Shower, Commissioned by Frieze Film 2013 and EMPAC, Broadcast

by Channel 4, London, UK

2011 Live from Frieze Art Fair this is Lucky

PDFTV, Commissioned by Frieze Projects, Frieze Art Fair, London, UK

Artist publications

2021 Cortright, Petra. Petra Cortright. Italy: Skira Editore, 2021.

2015 Cortright, Petra. Niki Lucy Lola Viola. Los Angeles: The Depart Foundation, 2015.

2012 Cortright, Petra. HELL_TREE. New York: Badlands Unlimited Editions,

E- book, 2012.

2011 Cortright, Petra and Franklin Collao. "RED WEB INTERNET."

CAVIAR IZQUIERDA No. 4, 2011.

2009 Cortright, Petra. "IMG MGMT: gRAdleNtBOW-2-your- masters."

Art F City Aug. 2009. Web.

Selected public collections

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Booth Business School Collection, University of Chicago

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Hammer Museum
KADIST, San Francisco
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) MCA Chicago

Moderna Museet
MoMA
MOTI, Breda, in collaboration with Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Museum

of Contemporary Art
Perez Art Museum
San Jose Museum of Art

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Petra Cortright US, b. 1986