Lives in Los Angeles, CA
Education
| 2008 | Parsons School of Design, New York, NY Bachelors of Fine Arts |
| 2004 |
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA |
Solo Exhibitions
2024 wet sunlight Paradis “pomme de terre” 3D, The Window by CHANEL
Culture Fund, London
ULTRAMARINE UNDERWORLD HEARTBROKEN HARDCORE, Société, Berlin
2023 haunted lemon hunted spirit, 1301SW, Melbourne, Australia
micro lemon diamond realm, Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand
2022 Petra Cortright: sapphire cinnamon viper fairy, Palm Springs Art Museum,
Palm Springs, CA
Denali F1 Batwing Baby Bear Baby Boo, BRIGADE, Copenhagen, Denmark
BALEAF GYS AKADEMIKS maamgic BROKIG, SOCIETE, Berlin, Germany
ultra angel wing absolute, Foxy Production, New York, NY
2021 Spiced Diamond Pool Earn 4x Points, County, Palm Beach, FL
Predator Swamping, 1301PE, Los Angeles, CA
soft ice soft porn soft war, Carl Kostyál, Milan, Italy
icy dip fresh petals, Carl Kostyál, Stockholm, Sweden +FREE +FUCKIN +
PICS, von ammon co., Washington, D.C.
2020 borderline aurora borealis, TEAM Gallery, New York
2019 Petra Cortright, Danziger Gallery, New York, NY
Lucky Ducks Lights Out, 1301PE, Los Angeles, CA
Computer Paintings on Linen, Duarte Sequeira, Barga, Portugal
2018 Platinum Blonde Black Night, Société, Berlin, Germany
PALE COIL COLD ANGEL, Nahmad Projects, London, UK
lambergani lambirgini lamborghini lambourgini, Ever Gold [Projects],
San Francisco, CA
CAM WORLS, UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA
Petra Cortright and Marc Horowitz, Bank, Shanghai, China 2017
human sheep brain "alice in wonderland" Americana, Foxy Production,
New York, NY
RUNNING NEO-GEO GAMES UNDER MAME, City Gallery, Wellington, NZ
RUNNING NEO-GEO GAMES UNDER MAME, Tristian Koenig, Melbourne, AU
quack doctor violet "saltwater fish", 1301PE, Los Angeles, CA
"kinder surprise" sharky baba, COUNTY Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
2016 DIE ROSE, Société; Berlin, Germany
ORANGE BLOSSOM PRINCESS FUCKING BUTTERCUP,
Carl Kostyal, London, UK
Octopus 16: Antiques Roadshow, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
Zero-Day Darling, Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco, CA
2015 NIKI, LUCY, LOLA, VIOLA, Depart Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Ily, Foxy Production, New York, NY 2014 PETWELT, Société, Berlin, Germany
Tags for Likes, Commissioned by MOCAtv, MOCA, Los Angeles, LA
Petra Cortright, Carl Kostyal, Stockholm, Sweden ASMR, MAMA,
Rotterdam, The Netherlands Family State of Mind w/ Ed Fornieles,
Gallerie Chez Valentin,
Paris, France
2013 BLank BLANk bLANk . Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Bridal Shower, Commissioned by Frieze Film 2013 and EMPAC,
Broadcast by Channel 4, London, UK 2012
VICKY DEEP IN SPRING VALLEY, Club Midnight, Berlin, Germany
Void Mastery / Blank Control, The Composing Rooms:
The Green Room, London, UK
Video Syrup, curated by Maggie Lee, Spectacle Theater, Brooklyn, New York
2011 Beholder, Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
SO WET, Preteen Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico Lesbian Kiss Episode,
Planet Ummo, Project Space, Mexico City, Mexico
2010 It Takes Strength to be Gentle and Kind, GLORIAMARIA Gallery, Milan, Italy
Avatar 4D, curated by JstChillin, NOMA Gallery, San Francisco, CA
TITS VAGINA SEX NUDE BOOBS BRITNEY SPEARS PARIS
HILTON JORDAN CAPRI HONEY MOON, Preteen Gallery,
Mexico City, Mexico
2008 Show #20: Peter Barrickman + Petra Cortright, And/ Or Gallery, Dallas, TX
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film, LACMA, LA
The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970 – 2020, MCA, Chicago
PETRA CORTRIGHT: In Medias Res: Expanded, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance
Crushed Celadon Starlight 'Calafia liveforever 10,000 flowers', Luminex 3.0,
Downtown LA
2023 Art Basel Parcours, Societe and Foxy Productions, Basel, Switzerland
FOCUS GROUP 4, Von Ammon Co, Washington, DC I'll Be Your Mirror:
Art and the Digital Screen, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,
Fort Worth, TX Video Store, Foxy Production, New York, NY
Behind the screens, CODA Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2022 Color Code, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
At Land, Foxy Production, New York, NY
FOCUS GROUP 3, von ammon co, Washington, DC At Land,
Foxy Production, New York, NY
2021 Search Engines, MoMA Collection Gallery, MoMA, New York, NY
2020 STEDELIJK BASE, Stedelijk Musuem, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Virtual Views, MoMA, New York, NY
In the Meanwhile..., Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Passing Time, curated by Neville Wakefield, www.passing-time.org
Glitch, The American University in Cairo Tahrir Cultural Center, Cairo, Egypt
Petra Cortright, Elizabeth Ibarra, and Susumu Kamijo, Aliso Editions x
The Newsstand Project, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Hate Speech: Aggression and Intimacy, Künstlerhaus, Graz, Austria
bitforms gallery LA, Bitforms Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 4th Ural Industrial Biennial Of Contemporary Art,
curated by João Ribas, Ekaterinburg, Russia
The Coverly Set, Sargent's Daughters; New York, NY Web 2.0,
Organized by Paul Slocum and Thierry Tilquin, Senne, Brussels Belgium
2016 Shift, Stretch, Expand: Everyday Transformations, Museum of
Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
Chatham Square, Foxy Production, New York, NY
Electronic Superhighway, curated by Omar Kholeif, Whitechapel
Gallery, London, UK
2015 Always-On, curated by Steffen Köhn and Matthias Krings,
Schule des Sehens, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany
Anti-Vapor Waves, DINCA VQ '15, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Full of Peril and Weirdness: Painting as Universalism,
curated by Robin Peckham and Wan Wan Lei, M WOODS, Beijing, China
The Metabolic Age, curated by Chus Martinez, MALBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Group Show, Im Inneren der Stadt. Künstlerhaus Bremen,
Bremen, Germany
Normal Reality, curated by Jason Judd, University Galleries of
Illinois State University, Normal, IL
2014 Farm to Table, Curated by Michael Bell-Smith, Foxy Production; New York, NY
Fútbol: The Beautiful Game, Los Angeles County Museum of Art;
Los Angeles, CA
Art Post-Internet, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA); Beijing, China
Material Images, Johannes Vogt; New York, NY
E Vapor 8. Site Gallery; Sheffield, UK
2013 Casting a Wide Net, Postmasters; New York, NY
D. Zwei, Drei; Berlin, Germany
Frieze Film, Curated by Nicola Lees and Victoria Brooks; Frieze London,
UK Meanwhile...Suddenly and Then, 12th Biennale de Lyon; Lyon, France
Lonely Girl, curated by Asher Penn, Martos Gallery; New York, NY
Things That Turn Your Brain to Mush, Santa Barbara Contemporary
Art Forum; Santa Barbara, CA
2012 E-Vapor-8, Curated by Francesca Gavin, 319 Scholes; Brooklyn, NY
Ex-Girlfriends in the Age of Drones, curated by Una Tittel,
Naherholung Strenchen; Berlin, Germany
2011 Banal Inferno, curated by Benjamin Fallon, CCA: The Center of
Contemporary Arts; Santa Fe, NM
Empty Orchestra, Curated by Georgie Park & Samuel Rodgers, Eastside
Projects at Birmingham Contemporary Art Forum; Birmingham, UK
Collect the WWWorld: The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age, curated by
Domenico Quaranta, Settimana dell'Arte; Brescia, Italy
2010 Multiplex, Curated by VVORK, Peer to Space Sun Galleries; Munich, Germany
Surfing Club, Espace Multimedia Gantner; Bourogne, France
The Brakhage Center Symposium; Boulder, CO Playlist,
Neoncampbase; Bologna, Italy
2009 No Hay Banda, Reference Gallery; Richmond, VA
Spun 2: art light noise new video art, Monkeytown; Brooklyn, NY
My Biennale Is Better Than Yours, Xth Biennale de Lyon; Lyon, France
SALLYS, Atelier Kreuzberg; Berlin, Germany
New Wave, The Internet Pavilion, The Venice Biennale; Venice, Italy
The New Easy, Artnews Projects; Berlin, Germany
Treasure Room (with Loshadka), Light Industry; Brooklyn, NY
Endless Pot of Gold CD-Rs (w/ Nasty Nets), Sundance International
Film Festival; Park City, UT
2008 Montage: Unmonumental Online, The New Museum; New York, NY
Build A Fire, Plexus Contemporary; Louisville, KY New York Underground
Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives; New York, NY B I T M A P: as good
as new, Leonard Pearlstein Gallery at Drexel University; Philadelphia, PA
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
BROADCASTS
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
SELECTED SCREENINGS
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
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 BIBLIOGRAPHY
2020 Bianconi, Giampaolo. "Interview - On Self-isolation, Zoom Mania, and Her
Early Webcam Works." Artforum. 20 Apr 2020. Web.
Dotson, Sarah. "5 Shows by Emerging Artists You Can See Online."
Artsy. 31 Mar 2020. Web.
Szremski, Ania. "Petra Cortright." 4Columns. 13 Mar 2020. Web.
2019 Durón, Maximilíano, and Alex Greenberger. "The Most
Important Art Exhibitions of the 2010s." ARTnews. 24 Dec 2019. Web.
Knoblauch, Loring. "Petra Cortright @Danziger." Collector Daily.
07 Nov 2019. Web.
Ables, Kelsey. "Get Lost in the Strange, Dizzying Websites of
These Contemporary Artists." Artsy. 16 Apr 2019. Web.
Moioli, Ciara. "Joy of Missing Out: Petra Cortright." Mousse Magazine.
22 July 2019. Web.
2018 Tauer, Kristen. "Petra Cortright Debuts Public Art Installation at Doota Plaza
in Seoul." WWD. 01 Oct. 2018. Web.
Langmuir, Molly. "Why Should a Webcam Plus A Woman Equal Sex?"
Elle Magazine. 10 July. 2018. Web and print.
Sterling, Bruce. "The Ephemera Mine." Rhizome. 1 March 2018. Web.
Gray, Julia. "See Petra Cortright's Decade of Digital Art IRL."
PAPER Magazine. 23 Feb. 2018. Web.
Pechman, Alexandra. "Petra Cortright Blends Technology With a Brush
Stroke." V Magazine. 4 April, 2018. Web and print.
2017 Knight, Christopher. "Petra Cortright's digital paintings, a tangled web of
dots and swipes." Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2017.
Lister, Aaron. Petra Cortright: Running Neo-Geo Games Under
Mame, Wellington: City Gallery Wellington, 2017.
McKinnon, Julian. "Bring me the weird." artnews NEW ZEALAND,
Spring 2017: 82-85.
"Quack Doctor Violet 'Saltwater Fish,' Petra Cortright at 1301PE,
Los Angeles." LXAQ, 14 Feb. 27.
2016 Adams, Susan "From Ashley Graham To Lauren Conrad: 30 Under 30 In Art
and Style" Forbes, 4 Jan. 2016.
Goulder, Iona. "Petra Cortright on the Gentrification of the Internet."
Amuse, 4 Apr. 2016.
Jansen, Charlotte. "Petra Cortright Is the Monet of the 21st Century."
Artsy, 13 May 2016.
Mindlin, Valerie. "Petra Cortright." Artforum, Oct. 2016.
2015 Cornell, Lauren and Ed Halter, eds. Mass Effect: Art and the Internet
in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge and New York: MIT Press and the
New Museum, 2015. Ding, Chinnie. "Petra Cortright." Artforum, 20 Feb. 2015.
Gallant, Elise. "Petra Cortright 'ily' exhibition at Foxy Production,
New York." Purple, 10 Feb. 2015.
Jennifer, Noemie. "Digital Painting Asserts Its Place in Art History."
The Creators Project, 30 Sep. 2015.
McGarry, Kevin. "Petra Cortright's Desktop Dolls." New York Times
Style Magazine, 9 July 2015.
Michael, Connor. "New Digital Paintings by Petra Cortright."
Rhizome, 15 Sep. 2015.
Piejko, Jennifer. "petra cortright's digital exotic fantasyland." i-D Magazine,
10 July 2015.
Riefe, Jordan. The Guardian, 22 July 2015. leeperhold #2. Antwerp:
Sleeperhold Publications, 2015.
Wagley, Catherine. LAweekly, 8 July 2015.
Wyma, Chloe. "Offline: The Inscrutable Cheeriness of Petra Cortright."
ARTinfo, 12 Feb. 2015.
Zhong, Fan. "Art 2.0." W Magazine, May 2015.
2014 Hyvonen, Joni. "Digital Remains: Petra Cortright." Kunstkritikk, 2 May 2014.
Takako, Danna. "MOCAtv presents Petra Cortright's Tags for Likes."
Dazed, 7 June. 2014.
2013 Galperina, Marina. "Frieze Art Film's Petra Cortright Experiment: Fall in
Love Here." Animal New York, 21 Oct. 2013.
Maloney, Jennifer. "Auction House Phillips Enters the Digitial Age." Wall
Street Journal, Sept. 2013
Moulon, Dominique. "Lyon Biennial and Then." MediaArtDesign.net, Nov. 2013.
Schildhause, Chloe. "A Demonstration in Artistic Onus." Flaunt Magazine,
25 Oct. 2013.
Sulcas, Roslyn. "Frieze London Makes Way for the Unexpected."
The New York Times, 16 Oct. 2013.
Ugelvig, Jeppe. "Frieze London | Interview with Petra Cortright." dis magazine,
22 Oct. 2013.
Williams, Maxwell. "For Petra Cortright the Web is the Ultimate Canvas."
The New York Times Style Magazine, 8 Nov. 2013.
2012 Cortright, Petra. "PETRA CORTRIGHT: VOID MASTERY /
BLANK CONTROL." Dazed Digital Arts & Culture, Jan. 2012.
Sterling, Bruce. "Data Mine." Artforum, Sept. 2013: 492-93. "Super Art
Modern Museum (SPAMM) Is Mecca Of Online Art." Huffington Post, Jan. 2012.
2011 "Artist Profile: Petra Cortright." Rhizome, Sep. 2011.
Chayka, Kyle. "An Xiao, Man Bartlett and Petra Cortright Make Avatars the
New Self Portraits." LA WEEKLY, Oct. 2011.
Chayka, Kyle. "Five L.A. Internet Artists You Need to Know" LA WEEKLY,
Dec. 2011.
Cortright, Petra. "Culture Club: Q&A." Nylon Magazine, Mar. 2011.
Fino-Radin, Ben. "YouTube Censors Petra Cortright, But 'VVEBCAM' Lives on
in the Rhizome ArtBase." Rhizome, Dec. 2011.
Sanchez, Roberto. "Petra Cortright by Roberto Sanchez." Photography
by Alvaro Nates. Nylon Mexico, May 2011.
Pinheiro, David Silva. "O Youtube Super Louco Da Petra."
Vice Portugal, Nov. 2011.
"YouTube Art Project 'VVEBCAM' Censored Because Of Its Tags."
Huffington Post, Dec. 2011.
2010 Chan, Paul. "Artist Favourites." Spike Art Quarterly, Winter 2010.
Droitcour, Brian. "Members Only: Loshadka Surfs the Web." Art In America,
Mar. 2010.
Quaranta, Domenico. "Vernacular Video. Art responding to Youtube."
Flash Art, July 2010.
2009 Capps, Kriston. "New-media artist Petra Cortright explores digital artwork
in Dallas exhibit." Dallas Morning News, 20 Jan. 2009.
Cortright, Petra. "Internet Artists Questionnaire." Flaunt Magazine, May 2009.
2007 Montage: Unmonumental Online Catalogue. New York: The New Museum,
Fall
Ng, David. "Messaging Is the Medium." ARTnews, Summer 2007: 186.
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