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Cortright has exhibited at institutions including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing, Lab for Emerging Arts and Performance (LEAP), Berlin, CCA: The Center of Contemporary Arts, Sante Fe, New Mexico, Espai Cultural Caja Madrid, Barcelona, and the Chelsea Art Museum, New York, Museum de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Argentina, Kunsthaus Langenthal, Switzerland, Kunstlerhaus Bremen, Germany, MCA Chicago, Illinois, Walker Art Center, Minnesota, among many other international gallery exhibitions. She has released several publications and has participated in online exhibitions including televised broadcasts for MOCA, Los Angeles, and Frieze Art Fair, London. Cortright participated in the 10th Biennale de Lyon and the Venice Biennale’s Internet Pavilion in 2009, and The New York Underground Film Festival in New York in 2008. In 2015 she was awarded Rhizome’s Future-Proof award with Paul Chan & Badlands Unlimited.
RUNNING NEO-GEO GAMES UNDER MAME
Petra Cortright
Published on the occasion of the City Gallery Wellington presentation of the exhibition Petra Cortright: RUNNING NEO-GEO GAMES UNDER MAME.
Published by City Gallery Wellington, in association with Tristian Koenig, 2017
Softcover, 32 pages
Petra Cortright
E-Girl
"This book is a collection of webcam screenshots from videos that were too fucked up to be released as the cluster b energy was dangerous and unprecedented + some classic bangers of more well known videos peppered in for fun." —Petra Cortright
Published by Hesse Press
ISBN: 978-1-948434-10-2
Softcover, 64 pages
Petra Cortright
Known for her video works available on YouTube and in galleries, and for her leading role in the creation of “Net art,” Los Angeles-based artist Petra Cortright (born 1986) experiments with the imagery of physical bodies in digital spaces, exploiting the main formal properties of video software. Her videos have at times proved controversial (such as her works with strippers in VirtuaGirl), at times heralded and lauded.
Cortright is also known for her paintings created with digital software, mixing concrete and abstract elements and printed on a wide variety of material. Such works are the product of an experimentation with Photoshop layers on a so-called “mother file,” enriched with the use of digital tools and then manipulated through industrial printing techniques.
This first monograph on her work includes writings on Cortright by fellow artists Martine Syms and Paul Chan, and by MoMA curatorial assistant Giampaolo Bianconi. Published by SKIRA.
152 pgs / 100 color, Hardcover
ISBN 978-88-5724-33-13