Gretchen Andrew is a painter and hacker who manipulates systems of power through art and technology. Her unique practice stems from her background at Google and a formal painting apprenticeship with Billy Childish. Known for merging traditional oil painting with strategic information systems and emerging technologies, she works across mediums to interrogate and manipulate the structures that shape beauty, influence, and authority in the digital age. Gretchen Facetune Portraits series explore how aesthetics, AI, and algorithmic visibility collide. She first gained recognition for her internet interventions and conceptual use of search engine manipulation, but it is her unique fusion of classical painting technique with digital subversion that has earned critical and institutional acclaim. In 2025, The Whitney Museum of American Art acquired two of her Facetune Portraits into its permanent collection, with unanimous and enthusiastic support from the museum’s committee. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Francisco Carolinum (Linz), the Monterey Museum of Art, Annka Kultys Gallery (London), and was a featured exhibition at Berlin Art Week and Paris Photo. She has been an artist-in-residence at The National Gallery (London), Gazelli Art House, and the 18th Street Arts Center, with her work supported by grants from the Knight Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). As a respected thought leader, she has delivered talks and lectures at institutions including the Tate Modern, the University of Chicago, and the V&A Museum. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum, 21c Museum Hotels, and the Monterey Museum of Art, among others, and has received critical attention from publications like Artforum, Vogue, Flash Art, and CNN.