2025 | Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary: Gretchen Andrew

Gretchen Andrew is known for her unique combination of traditional artistic mediums such as photography and oil paint with advanced technologies such as robotics, algorithm and artificial intelligence. She first became known starting in 2019 with her hacks on major art world and political institutions.

In Gretchen's new Facetune Portrait series the artist uses custom robotics to physically apply popular "beautifying" Al algorithms into oil paintings. She trained in London with the artist Billy Childish from 2012-2017. In 2018 the V&A Museum released her book Search Engine Art. Gretchen's work has been exhibited in solo museum exhibitions with The Monterey Museum of Art and the FC Linz as well as with The Photographer's Gallery London, Photo Museum Winterthur, Paris Photo, Untitled Miami and The National Endowment for The Arts. She has been the Artist in Residence with The National Gallery X London and is the winner of the 2024 21C Acquisition prize.  Her work is widely covered including recent articles in Artforum, Fast Company, Flash Art, The Washington Post, Fortune Magazine, Monopol, Wirtschaftswoche, The Los Angeles Times, Forbes, and The Financial Times.