Petra Cortright's core practice is the creation and distribution of digital and physical images using consumer or corporate software. She became renowned for making self-portrait videos that use her computer's webcam and default effects tools. Cortright's paintings on aluminum, linen and paper are created in Photoshop. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), The Péréz Museum (Miami), The Bass Museum (Miami), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Moderna Museet (Stockholm), the San Jose Museum of Art (San Jose, CA), Rhizome's Net Art Anthology, and MOCA Los Angeles.