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 (2023-24).
Her work investigates psychological and felt experiences contending with embodiment. Through paintings, writing, textile art, and action-based practices, she records scenarios that untangle the contradictions in the perception of what it means to have a body, specifically within the idea of the body as an object vs. the body as an agent. Through manipulating material, she is interested in depicting figures as they evolve and take shape. This is a formal question that engages feelings of in-betweenness and uprootedness that are part of her nomadic practice. With her work, she looks for the points of tension between desire and discomfort, pleasure, and abjection as they relate to social and gender expectations in the contexts she inhabits.
Her work investigates psychological and felt experiences contending with embodiment. Through paintings, writing, textile art, and action-based practices, she records scenarios that untangle the contradictions in the perception of what it means to have a body, specifically within the idea of the body as an object vs. the body as an agent. Through manipulating material, she is interested in depicting figures as they evolve and take shape. This is a formal question that engages feelings of in-betweenness and uprootedness that are part of her nomadic practice. With her work, she looks for the points of tension between desire and discomfort, pleasure, and abjection as they relate to social and gender expectations in the contexts she inhabits.