Petra Cortright

Petra Cortright is an American digital painter. Cortright was born on 1986 in Santa Barbara, CA. She studied Fine Arts at Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York, NY (2008) and the California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA (2004). Her artworks have been shown in museums and galleries around the world.

Selected exhibitions include “The Body Electric,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; “Hate Speech: Aggression and Imitation,” Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Austria; “Primary Directives,” Marlborough Contemporary, London (all 2019); “I Was Raised On the Internet,” MCA Chicago, IL (2018); Ural Industrial Biennial, Ekaterinberg, Russia (2017); “Electronic Superhighway,” Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2016); “The Metabolic Age,” MALBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2015); Frieze Film, London, UK; 12th Bienniale de Lyon, France (both 2013); the Venice Bienniale, Italy (2009). Selected permanent collections include The Péréz Museum, Miami; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; MOTI, Breda, in collaboration with Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; MCAChicago; Kadist Foundation, Paris, San Francisco; BAMPFA, Berkeley, CA, San Jose Museum of Art; and Rhizome’s Net Art Anthology, New York.

Petra Cortright, legalines terrazzo terminal 5, 2020, Archive Pigment Print on Matte Paper

Petra Cortright instlled in the Newham Hospital Outpatients staffroom