About the Artist
Julieta Beltran is a visual artist working between Guadalajara and Chicago. Currently, she is a candidate for a Master of Fine Arts degree at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2025). In 2020, she earned her BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has been exhibited both individually and collectively within Mexico, Peru, E.E.U.U., and Europe. Currently, she is the recipient of the Higher Education Scholarship from the Jumex Art Foundation (2023-25).
“My artistic practice delves into psychological and embodied experiences, using my body, memories, fantasies and somatic expressions as a starting point. I think through the tensions between the body’s physicality and the ideologies —gender, culture, racial constructs—that shape it. I am fascinated by the cyclical nature of self-construction, its myriad outcomes and contradictions. In the studio, I aim to weave a narrative of selfhood that resonates with others, searching for the friction between desire and discomfort, pleasure and abjection, and conformity and disruption.”
“My artistic practice delves into psychological and embodied experiences, using my body, memories, fantasies and somatic expressions as a starting point. I think through the tensions between the body’s physicality and the ideologies —gender, culture, racial constructs—that shape it. I am fascinated by the cyclical nature of self-construction, its myriad outcomes and contradictions. In the studio, I aim to weave a narrative of selfhood that resonates with others, searching for the friction between desire and discomfort, pleasure and abjection, and conformity and disruption.”