Petra Cortright’s core practice is the creation and distribution of digital and physical images using consumer or corporate software. She became renowned for making self-portrait videos that use her computer’s webcam and default effects tools, which she would then upload to YouTube and caption with spam text. Cortright’s paintings on aluminum, linen, paper, or acrylic are created in Photoshop using painting software and appropriated images, icons, and marks. The digital files are endlessly modifiable, but at a “decisive moment” they are translated into two-dimensional objects. They become finite, yet their range of motifs and marks, and their disorienting perspectives and dimensions suggest a ​dynamic change. Cortright lives and works in Los Angeles, 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). Selected exhibitions include: Lucky Duck Lights Out at 1301PE (solo, LA, 2019); Platinum Blonde Black Knight at Société (solo, Berlin, 2018); PALE COIL COLD ANGEL at Nahmad Projects (solo, London, 2018); I Was Raised On the Internet at MCA Chicago (Chicago, 2018); CAM WORLS at UTA Artist Space (solo, Los Angeles, 2018); lambergani lambirgini lamborghini lambourgini at Ever Gold [Projects] (solo, San Francisco, 2018); RUNNING NEO-GEO GAMES UNDER MAME at City Gallery (solo, Wellington, New Zealand, 2017); human sheep brain “alice in wonderland” Americana at Foxy Production (solo, New York, 2017); Ural Industrial Biennial (Ekaterinberg, Russia, 2017); quack doctor violet "saltwater fish" at 1301PE, Los Angeles (solo, 2017); Zero-Day Darling at Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco (solo, 2016); Electronic Superhighway at Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2016); Carl Kostyál, London, UK (solo, 2016); DIE ROSE at Société (solo, Berlin, 2016); NIKI, LUCY, LOLA, VIOLA at Depart Foundation (solo, Los Angeles, 2015); Ily at Foxy Production (solo, New York, 2015); The Metabolic Age at MALBA (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2015); On YouTube. Kunst und Playlists aus 10 Jahren at Kunsthaus Langenthal (Langenthal, Switzerland, 2015); Im Inneren der Stadt at Künstlerhaus Bremen (Bremen, Germany, 2015); PETWELT at Société (solo, Berlin, 2014); Frieze Film, Frieze London, UK (2013); 12th Bienniale de Lyon, France (2013); TITS VAGINA SEX NUDE BOOBS BRITNEY PARIS HILTON JORDAN CAPRI HONEYMOON at Preteen Gallery (solo, Mexico City, 2011); and the Venice Bienniale (2009). Her works are in the permanent collections of the Péréz Museum (Miami), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), the Moderna Museet (Stockholm), the MOTI (Breda) in collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Kadist Foundation (San Francisco), the BAMPFA (Berkeley), and the San Jose Museum of Art. Cortright is included in The Body Electric, a survey exhibition of digital art opening March 30, 2019, at the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis).