Gretchen Andrew
Born in Los Angeles, United States, 1988
Lives and works in Los Angeles
EDUCATION / WORK
B.S. in Information Systems, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, 2010
Intuit, software engineer, 2006 - 2009
Google, people technology manager, 2010 - 2012
Billy Childish Studio Apprenticeship, 2013 - 2017
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 NOT NOT THE TURNER PRIZE, Chelsea Cookhouse, London, United Kingdom
Whitney Biennial 2019...Vision Board, LACDA, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Roughly Translated As: Ubuntu, A4 Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2017 Internet Imperialism: Bow, NH, 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, CA
HOW TO HOW TO HOW TO draw,
2016 Interior, Whitcher Projects, Inglewood, CA
HOW TO HOW TO HOW TO, Arebyte Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Crossed Lines, Ace Hotel, London, United Kingdom
2015 Virtual Reality, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Pigment As Pixel, Hoxton Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2014 Painting As Interface, The White Building, London United Kingdom
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Search Engine Art, V&A Museum, London, United Kingdom (book)
2018 Mozfest Open Web, Mozilla Foundation, London, United Kingdom
2014 Digital Futures, V&A Museum, London, United Kingdom
2013 De Re Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
CONFERENCES & LECTURES
2018
Wikimania, Cape Town, South Africa
Lux Gallery, London, United Kingdom
The British Computer Society, London, United Kingdom
2017
Emmanuel College at Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
The Photographer’s Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Vivid Projects, Birmingham, United Kingdom
2016
The London Film School, London, United Kingdom
The International Conference on the GIF, Bologna, Italy
2014
Digital Utopias, The British Arts Council, Hull, United Kingdom
The British Computer Society, London, United Kingdom
2013
The British Film Institute, London, United Kingdom
SHORT LISTS
2015 The Delfina Foundation, London, United Kingdom
2016 Ace & Tate, London United Kingdom
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Catherine Womack. “This Artist Is Tricking the Internet into Making Her Dreams Comes True.” LA Magazine, May 15, 2019
<https://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/gretchen-andrew-search-engine-art/>
Catherine Womack. “Hack the Frieze Los Angeles art fair? This painter says she's done it.” LA Times, February 14, 2019
<https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-frieze-gretchen-andrew-20190214-htmlstory.html>
Matt Stromberg. “A Net Artist Takes Over the Google Image Search of “Frieze Los Angeles.” HyperAllergic, February 13, 2019 <https://hyperallergic.com/484599/a-net-artist-takes-over-the-google-image-search-of-frieze-los-angeles/ >
Liz Ohanesian. “I’m taking a power gap and closing it with an information gap.” We Present, July 2019
<https://wepresent.wetransfer.com/story/gretchen-andrew/>
Gunseli Yalcinkaya. “The artist who trolled Google into making her win the Turner Prize.” Dazed, September 27, 2019
Caroline Goldstein, “How One ‘Search Engine Artist’ Hacked Her Paintings Into Frieze Los Angeles’s Google Results.” ArtNet, February 12, 2019
<https://news.artnet.com/market/frieze-los-angeles-gretchen-andrew-1462594 >
Gareth Harris. “Pioneer of Virtual Reality Art.” Financial Times, September 21, 2016. <https://www.ft.com/content/89bdcff0-7fe0-11e6-8e50-8ec15fb462f4>
Liz Ohanesian. “At This Gallery Show, the Art Isn't on the Walls — It's in Virtual Reality.” LA Weekly, February 11, 2015. <http://www.laweekly.com/arts/at-this-gallery-show-the-art-isnt-on-the-walls-its-in-virtual-reality-5376015>
Amira, Dhalla. “This Artist’s Paintings Are Making the Internet More Open and Equal.” The Mozilla Foundation, May 21, 2018. <https://medium.com/read-write-participate/this-artists-paintings-are-making-the-internet-more-open-and-equal-2c9b4340f08c >
Neal, Stimler. “Making New Art Inspired by the Met's Collections with Google Glass.’ The Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 6, 2014. <https://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/digital-underground/2014/making-new-art >