Petra Cortright

Petra Cortright (Born 1986, Santa Barbara, CA) 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: Electronic Superhighway, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2016); The Metabolic Age, MALBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina; On YouTube. Kunst und Playlists aus 10 Jahren, Kunsthaus Langenthal, Switzerland; Im Inneren der Stadt, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Germany; Ural Industrial Biennial, Ekaterinberg, Russia (2017); I Was Raised On the Internet, MCA Chicago (2018); and The Body Electric, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2019). Her works are in the permanent collections of The Péréz Museum, Miami; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; MOTI, Breda in collaboration with Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; MCA Chicago; the San Jose Museum of Art; and MOCA Los Angeles.