15 Facts About Petra Cortright

Petra Cortright was born on 1986 and is an American artist working in video, painting, and digital media.

Petra Cortright was born in 1986 in Santa Barbara, California.

Petra Cortright studied at California College of the Arts in San Francisco and Parsons The New School for Design in New York.

Petra Cortright first came to notice through her self-portrait videos that she uploaded to YouTube.

Petra Cortright is well known for her video works presented on YouTube and in gallery environments.

In vvebcam, Petra Cortright filmed herself while playing with the special effects features built into the webcam software used to make the video.

In 2011 Petra Cortright collaborated with Ilia Ovechkin to create Video Catalog, a work where the monetary value of her videos is determined by an algorithm based on YouTube views.

Petra Cortright was selected to participate in the 2013 Frieze Art Fair in London where she produced her self-portrait, Bridal Shower, a film where she experiments with the physical qualities of a production studio.

In 2014, Petra Cortright began a collaboration with fashion designer Stella McCartney, creating a series of videos where Petra Cortright uses glitches and video manipulation to showcase and contrast patterns on the garments designed by McCartney that she models.

In 2011 Petra Cortright had her first solo exhibition, So Wet, organized by Gerardo Contreras at Preteen Gallery in Mexico City.

Petra Cortright continued to assemble collages on the computer, layer on layer, from images found on-line, through raster image manipulations and the addition of painterly digital brushstrokes.

Each of Petra Cortright's paintings begin with a digital file that the artist refers to as a "mother file," which consists of hundreds of layers that are subsequently printed on a substrate through industrial print processes.

Nonetheless, Petra Cortright has a wide range of work that involves her playing with female stereotypes using readily available consumer software to produce "selfies".

Petra Cortright's works have been shown at the New Museum in New York, Rhizome, the Venice Biennale, the 2010 01SJ Biennial in San Jose, California, and the 12ieme Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon.

Petra Cortright's work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Perez Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum, the Moderna Museet, the MOTI in collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Kadist Foundation, BAMPFA, and the San Jose Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.