Petra Cortright b. 1986 in Santa Barbara, California where she lives and works.
Solo Show
2012
VICKY DEEP IN SPRING VALLEY, Club Midnight, Berlin
Void Mastery / Blank Control 27th January - 4th March. The Composing Rooms: The Green Room, London, England.
"Video Syrup" Spectacle Theater. curated by Maggie Lee. Brooklyn, New York.
2011
"Beholder" Talbot Rice Gallery. University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
""SO WET" Preteen Gallery. Mexico City, Mexico.
2010
"It Takes Strength to be Gentle and Kind" GLORIAMARIAgallery. Milan, Italy.
"Avatar 4D" NOMA Gallery. San Francisco, California. curated by JstChillin.
Group Show
2012
E-Vapor-8 Curated by Francesca Gavin. 319 Scholes, Brooklyn NYC.
"Ex-Girlfriends in the Age of Drones" curated by Una Tittel. Naherholung Sternchen. Berlin, Germany
2011
"Banal Inferno" CCA: The Centre for Contemporary Arts curated by Benjamin Fallon. Glasgow, Scotland.
December "De Joode & Kamutzki Winter Auction 2011" Berlin, Germany.
"SPAMM (SuPer Art Modern Museum )" http://spamm.fr/ curated by Thomas Cheneseau. "LikeArtBasel" Miami Art Basel @ Workshop Collective. sponsored by Artspace, organized by OKFocus, HORENSTEIN+ and Daniel Leyva curated by Ryder Ripps December.
"Notes on a New Nature" curated by Nicholas O'Brien. 319 Scholes, Brooklyn, NYC. November. "LESBIAN KISS EPISODE" Petra Cortright at PLANET UMMO PROJECT SPACE. Mexico City, Mexico. "LuckyPDFTV" curated by LuckyPDF. Frieze Art Fair. London, England.
"LAFIAC.com 2011" 38th edition of the FIAC (Foire Internationale Contemporary Art) www.lafiac.com / Paris, France.
"PDF" Curated by Patrick Gantert. Allegra LaViola Gallery. NYC, New York.
"Empty Orchestra" curated by Georgie Park & Samuel Rodgers. Eastside Projects at Birmingham Contemporary Art Forum. Birmingham, United Kingdom.
"Collect the WWWorld. The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age" curated by Domenico Quaranta. Settimana dell'Arte. Brescia, Italy.
"Life on the Screen" curated by Perry Bard, RE/Mixed Media Festival. NYC, New York.
"La imagen transitada, arte y nuevos medios" curated by Andy Davies. Espai Cultural Caja Madrid. Barcelona, Spain.
CAVIAR IZQUIERDA No. 4 "RED WEB INTERNET" collaboration with Franklin Collao.
"KEEPIN' IT REAL" Curated by Robin Juan. HungryMan Gallery. Chicago
"3 Screenings: Eruption" curated by Eric Fleischauer and Jesse McLean. Backspace Collective. Peoria, Illinois.
"Petra Cortright by Roberto Sanchez" photography by Alvaro Nates. Nylon Mexico.
"VIDEO VILLAGE 2011: New Media Expeditions" Curated by Noah Collier and Stephanie Szerlip. INDEX ART CENTER. Newark, New Jersey.
"Life on the Screen" curated by Perry Bard, Joyce Yahouda Gallery, Montréal, Canada.
"Internet Livre - Free Internet" curated by Renan Araujo. SESC Ribeirão Preto. São Paulo, Brazil. "Minimize BOCA #1" BOZEAU ORTEGA CONTEMPORARY ARTS. http://www.bocagallery.com/.
"Graphics Interchange Format" curated by Paddy Johnson. Mulberry Gallery. Denison University, Ohio "Getting Closer" Fe Arts Gallery. Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
"Internet Livre" SESC Ribeirão Preto. São Paulo, Brazil.
2010
"BYOB LA" Gayle & Ed Roski MFA Gallery at University of Southern California. Los Angeles, California. "Sister Sister City" Curated by Lindsay Lawson. Thomas Solomon Gallery @ Cottage Home. Los Angeles, California.
"Domain: Webkam Performance" Live Performance in collaboration with Rhizome.org. SJ01 Biennial. San Jose, California. September 18.
"Do I Know You" Inman Gallery. Houston, Texas.
"Today and Tomorrow's 5th Birthday SPEED SHOW" or@nien net Internet cafe. Berlin, Germany. "Made in Internet" curated by Marcin Ramocki. ARTBOOK Festival. Krakow, Poland. June.
"VHS AIDS" Preteen Gallery. Hermosillo, Mexico.
"Multiplex" curated by VVORK. Peer to Space Sun Galleries. Munich, Germany.
"TITS VAGINA SEX NUDE BOOBS BRITNEY SPEARS PARIS HILTON JORDAN CAPRI HONEYMOON" PRETEEN GALLERY. Mexico City, Mexico.
"Remember 2010?" The Gallery Space. www.thegalleryspace.info
"Surfing Club" plug.in gallery. Basel, Switzerland.
"Surfing Club" Espace Multimédia Gantner. Bourogne, France.
"MiArt Art Now!" Milan Art Fair. Gloria Maria Gallery Booth.
"Brakhage Symposium" Boulder, Colorado.
"Playlist" Neoncampobase. Bologna, Italy.
PRETEEN GALLERY @ CIRCA LABS. Puerto Rico.
"Don't Worry, Be Happy" Showroom Mama. Rotterdam, Netherlands.
2009
"No Hay Banda" Reference Gallery. Richmond, Virginia.
"Funny Games" Load of Fun. Baltimore, Maryland.
"Spun 2: art light noise new video art" Monkeytown, Brooklyn, New York.
"The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths", Rapture Heap, Liberty Corner, Dublin, Ireland.
"My Biennale Is Better Than Yours" Xth Biennale de Lyon, France.
"Screen Grab" The Nightingale Theatre. Chicago, Illinois.
"IMG MGMT" essay for artfagcity.com
"Speed Conference Call Dating". Envoy Enterprises. New York, York.
"SALLYS" Atelier Kreuzberg. Berlin, Germany.
"PROMO Billboard" Np3. Groningen, Holland.
"New Wave" The Internet Pavilion. The Venice Biennale. Venice, Italy.
"The New Easy" Artnews Projects. Berlin, Germany.
"Secret Life" Version Festival. Chicago, Illinois.
"Hors les murs" Fette's Gallery. Berlin, Germany.
"VVork Show" Munich, Germany.
"Are You Sure You Are You?" Spencer Brownstone Gallery. New York, New York.
"Forms of Melancholy" Sego Art Center. Provo, Utah.
"Treasure Room" (Loshadka) Light Industry. Brooklyn, New York.
"IRL presented by iheartphotograph" (Loshadka) Capricious Space. Brooklyn, New York.
"Rhizome's The Long Gallery" 7 x 7 Series. Why + Wherefore. whyandwherefore.com.
"Women Get Fucked" Alogon Gallery. Chicago, Illinois.
"Neen Cover Page" Neen.org. February. "Endless Pot of Gold CD-Rs" (Nasty Nets) Sundance International Film Festival.
2008
"Show #20:Peter Barrickman + Petra Cortright" And/Or Gallery. Dallas, Texas.
"This is a Magazine: Episode 26" (Loshadka). Milan, Italy.
"The New Easy" Amsterdam, Netherlands.
"Club Internet" "K.I.S.S." http://www.clubinternet.org/ August. "NETMARES/NETDREAMS V 3.0" Current Gallery. Baltimore, Maryland.
"Young Curators, New Ideas" Bond Street Gallery. Brooklyn, New York.
"This is a Magazine: Video Object 23" Milan, Italy.
"Build A Fire" Plexus Contemporary. Louisville, Kentucky.
"Lizard Gear" Loshadka at MTAA's OTO. Brooklyn, New York.
"Club Internet" "FIRST SELECTION http://www.clubinternet.org/
"New York Underground Film Festival" Anthology Film Archives. New York. New York.
"B I T M A P: as good as new" Leonard Pearlstein Gallery at Drexel University. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
"Montage: Unmonumental Online" The New Museum. New York, New York.
2007
"B I T M A P: as good as new" vertexList. Brooklyn, New York.
"The Sims: In the Hands of Artists" Chelsea Art Museum. New York, New York.
"Nasty Nets Event" Telic Arts Exchange. Los Angeles, California.
Publication
HELL_TREE, IBook, Badlands Unlimited Editions, 2012