Facetune Portraits Joins the Whitney Museum Collection

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The rise of Facetune Portraits marks a defining moment in the intersection of technology, feminism, and contemporary art.

Gretchen Andrew’s acclaimed Facetune Portraits series continues its global impact — now with two works acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art.

The series — which examines how AI, filters, and digital beauty tools reshape identity — has gained international recognition over the past year. After winning the Acquisition Award at Untitled Art Miami Beach, and exhibiting at Hope 93 Gallery in London and Heft Gallery in New York, the momentum has culminated in a landmark institutional milestone: two works from the series have been officially acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art.

The Whitney acquisition cements Facetune Portraits as both a cultural critique and an aesthetic statement — one that captures our era’s obsession with algorithmic beauty and the loss of visual diversity.

Each portrait in the series reveals the quiet violence of perfection — where the individual is softened, brightened, and reshaped until difference disappears. Through painterly contradiction and digital layering, Gretchen Andrew exposes what it means to look human in a world obsessed with optimization.