Petra Cortright (USA, 1986) is a contemporary artist whose multifaceted artistic practice stems from creating and manipulating digital files. She first gained attention for webcam self-portrait videos altered by animated gifs that she would post to her YouTube account and caption with spam text. This famously resulted in her work VVEBCAM (2007) - which is now in the collection of MOMA - being removed from YouTube in 2010. Cortright's digital paintings have earned her the title "Monet of the 21st Century" - she laboriously crafts digital paintings by creating layer upon layer of manipulated images in Photoshop constructing impactful gestural landscapes that have informed the legacy of Post Internet painting.
Solo exhibitions include: Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara; Société, Berlin; Doota Plaza, Seoul; LIMA, Amsterdam; 1301PE, Los Angeles; Foxy Production, NY; UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles; and University of Edinburgh. Group exhibitions include: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; MoCA, Los Angeles; KM -Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Kunsthaus Langenthal, Langenthal; New Museum, New York; and the 12th Biennale de Lyon.