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
View As, IsThisIt, London
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
2019 Art & AI, Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue, Rüschlikon, Switzerland
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
CONFERENCES & LECTURES
2019 Hennessy & Ingalls, Los Angeles
Mozilla Foundation, London, United Kingdom
University of East London, London, United Kingdom
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
SELECTED PUBLISHED WRITING
Book: Search Engine Art, V&A Museum, 2018
Google Exacerbates the Internet's Sexism, Imperica, 2018
Search Engine Art: Internet Imperialism and the image in context, The British Computer Society, 2018
Virtual Reality as A Platform and Medium for Artists, White Wall, 2017
Wearable Technology and Electronic Visualisation of Artistic Process, The British Computer Society, 2014
A Moveable Fetish: Aesthetics of Post-Internet Art, Imperica, 2015
Painting in the New Public, HEAD TO HEAD, Edited by Jones, N. J. & Liotchev, I., Standpoint London, 2013
Experience Is Not Art, 2013
SHORT LISTS
2015 The Delfina Foundation, London, United Kingdom
2016 Ace & Tate, London United Kingdom
SELECTED PRESS
Catherine Womack. “This Artist Is Tricking the Internet into Making Her Dreams Comes True.” Los Angeles 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.” Los Angeles 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
Jacob Lomas. “The Internet As a Pallet.” Art She Says, October 30, 2019
<https://artshesays.com/the-internet-as-a-palette-an-interview-with-gretchen-andrew/>
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 >
Jody Zellen, “Searching for Different Truths.” Artillery, September 4, 2018 <https://artillerymag.com/gretchen-andrew-searching-for-different-truths/>
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 >