Since becoming disillusioned with the culture of silicon valley Gretchen Andrew has been using her increasingly visible career to increase popular understanding of new technologies because she believes in the power and importance of internet, financial, and web3 literacy.
Partners and Publications
Popularizing understanding of technology for more diversified technical and financial empowerment.
The Art Newspaper enjoys a reputation as the journal of record for the art world, and the bible of the art industry. Gretchen is one of only 10 writers who have their own column.
The Art Newspaper -
Art Decoded
Digital artist Gretchen Andrew explains new technology and its impact on art and the art world. Read
NFT Magazine -
Editorial Director
Through our billboard, covers, social media and article design, we celebrate the artists and people involved in creating artistic and financial value in NFTs.
The Art Newspaper -
Curator & Writer XR Panel
Gretchen Andrew curated and wrote introductions for the Art Newspaper's XR panel before taking on her own column. Read
Whitewall Magazine
Writer
The controversial but extraordinary art dealer, called to say that he would not be making the trek across congested London to visit my studio, instead suggesting, “Send me images of the work.” I was devastated. A studio visit, insofar as it communicates the process and environment, reveals the artist’s soul. I wanted to share more than digital images of my paintings. I needed a different solution. Read
Books & Peer Reviewed Resarch
Subjet of Press
More than 150 international publications including The Washington Post, CNN, LA Times, Fortune, and Fast Company have written about Gretchen and her work. We keep a running list.
Gretchen was commissioned in 2022 to write for the UBS Collector's Circle on collecting VR Artwork
Teaching
Talks
Lectures
2023 Creative Coding Institute, Luma Foundation, The NFT Gallery, Expanded Art, The Santa Monica Museum of Art
2022 Mia Foundation, Dubai Arts Club, Darwin Circle
2021 University of Chicago, Boston College, Willem de Kooning Academie, Mozilla Festival, Ars Electronica, The British Computer Society at EVA London, Falmouth University, OK Center for Contemporary Art Austria
2019 Feminism & Artificial Intelligence, Mozilla Foundation, Painting and New Media, University of East London, Hennessy & Ingalls, Los Angeles, Lecture to new MA students, Chelsea College of Arts, Digital Now Margate
2018 Wikimania, Cape Town, South Africa, Lux Gallery, London, United Kingdom
The British Computer Society
2017 Art and AI, Emmanuel College at Cambridge University, The Photographer’s Gallery, Vivid Projects
2016 Moving Image New Media, The London Film School, The International Conference on the GIF, University of Bologna, Italy
2014 Digital Utopias, The British Arts Council, The British Computer Society, University of the Arts London
2013 The British Film Institute
EDUCATION / WORK
B.S. in Information Systems (Honors), 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
2023 Unfair Milan, solo booths
Santa Monica Art Museum
2022 Growth Hacking, Galloire, Dubai UAE
Everything I Need to be Beautiful, Falko Alexander, Cologne, Germany
Vienna Contemporary, Elektrohalle Rhomberg, Salzburg, Austria
2021 Other Forms of Travel, Annka Kultys Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Trust Boundary, Francisco Carolinum, Linz, Austria (Acquired 3 works)
Router at Panke Gallery, Berlin
2020 Future News, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA (Acquired a work)
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, 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, CA
HOW TO HOW TO HOW TO draw, http://linkcabinet.eu
2016 HOW TO HOW TO HOW TO, Arebyte Gallery, 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
2023 YOU TOPIA, The NFT Gallery NYC, USA
Sentiments des femmes, Mia Art Foundation, Dubai UAE
Art and AI, Kupfer Projects, London, United Kingdom
2022 LA GRANDE BOUFFE, Elektrohalle Rhomberg, Salzburg, Austria
Crypto Art Fair, NYC, United States
2021 Painting in the Digital Age, König Galerie Berlin, Germany
Screenwalk, The Photographer’s Gallery & Fotomuseum Winterthur
No Fear in Trying, Unit Gallery, London
2020 Real-Time Constraints, Arebyte, London, United Kingdom
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
RESIDENCIES
2022 National Gallery X London
2021 Salzamt, Linz Austria
2021 A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town, SA
2021 ScreenWalk, The Photographer’s Gallery London with Fotomuseum Winterthur
2020 Gazelli Art House Gazell.io, London, UK
2019 IsThisIt, London, UK
2018 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA
2016 Whitcher Projects, Inglewood, CA
2016 Arebyte, London, UK
2014 The White Building, London, UK
Education
Work
Art World
LINKS TO SELECTED PUBLISHED WRITING
Columnist, The Art Newspaper, 2020
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/the-art-newspaper-s-xr-panel
Il Giornale dell'Arte
https://www.ilgiornaledellarte.com/articoli/ai-ancora-un-altra-bolla-dell-arte/142686.html
What if We Educated AI..., The British Computer Society, 2021
https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.54
Book: Search Engine Art, V&A Museum, 2018
https://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/museum-life/search-engine-art
Google Exacerbates the Internet's Sexism, Imperica, 2018
https://www.imperica.com/en/blogger/gretchenandrew
Search Engine Art: Internet Imperialism and the image in context, The British Computer Society, 2018
https://ewic.bcs.org/content/ConWebDoc/59622
Virtual Reality as A Platform and Medium for Artists, White Wall, 2017
https://www.whitewall.art/art/virtual-reality-as-a-platform-and-medium-for-artists
Wearable Technology and Electronic Visualisation of Artistic Process, The British Computer Society, 2014
https://ewic.bcs.org/content/ConWebDoc/53041
A Moveable Fetish: Aesthetics of Post-Internet Art, Imperica, 2015
https://www.imperica.com/en/a-moveable-fetish-aesthetics-of-post-internet-art-gretchen-andrew
Painting in the New Public, HEAD TO HEAD, Edited by Jones, N. J. & Liotchev, I., Standpoint London, 2013
http://www.standpointlondon.co.uk/gallery/2014/head-to-head/index.php