Claudia Bitrán Explained
Claudia Bitrán[1] (born 1986)[2] is a painter, video artist, and educator. She spent her formative years in Santiago, Chile, and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.
Early life and education
Bitrán spent her formative years in Santiago, Chile. She earned her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2013, and she completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in 2009.[2]
Life and work
Bitrán's artistic practice primarily revolves around painting and video, often employing DIY aesthetics to portray the realms of social media and pop culture. Her work encompasses a wide range of painting techniques that transform source material into rich and layered surfaces, effectively recontextualizing the content of her videos.
Bitrán has had solo exhibitions at the Centro Cultural Matucana 100 in Santiago (2023),[3] Signs and Symbols Gallery in New York (2022),[4] Cristin Tierney Gallery in New York (2022),[5] [6] Walter Storms Galerie in Munich (2020),[7] Practice Gallery in Pennsylvania (2018),[8] and the Roswell Museum and Art Center in New Mexico (2017).[9]
Bitrán is the recipient of the Visual Arts Guggenheim Fellowship in 2023,[10] the FondArt Nacional Audiovisual in 2022,[11] the Emergency Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2015,[12] and the Jerome Foundation Grant for Emerging Filmmakers in 2015.[13] She received 1st Prize in the Britney Spears Dance Challenge,[14] and a 1st Honorable Mention at the Bienal de Artes Mediales, Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago, Chile.
Bitrán has completed residencies at Pioneer Works,[15] Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture,[16] Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program,[17] Smack Mellon Studio Program,[18] Outpost Projects,[19] and the Wassaic Projects.[20] She works as an educator in the painting departments of Pratt Institute[21] and Sarah Lawrence College[22]
Films about Bitran
Notes and References
- Web site: 2021-06-22 . A 'Titanic' endeavor: Artist remakes hit film on a more intimate scale . 2023-11-02 . Dallas News . en.
- Web site: Claudia Bitrán - Overview . 2023-11-02 . Cristin Tierney . en.
- Web site: Montes . Carlos . 2016-01-07 . Exposición Individual "Profundo" de Claudia Bitrán . 2023-11-02 . El Ciudadano . es.
- Web site: Claudia Bitran - White Shoes at 89 Greene . 2023-11-02 . signs and symbols . en-US.
- Web site: 2022-03-09 . Claudia Bitrán Reflects on How We Consume Images in "Stereotypies" . 2023-11-02 . Hypebeast.
- https://www.papermag.com/claudia-bitran-britney-spears#rebelltitem9
- Web site: claudia bitran be drunk . 2023-11-02 . Walter Storms Galerie . de-DE.
- Web site: Claudia Bitran: White Shoes Practice Gallery . 2023-11-02 . practicegallery.org.
- Web site: Claudia Bitran: Titanic, A Deep Emotion Roswell, NM . 2023-11-02 . roswell-nm.gov.
- Web site: Claudia Bitrán . 2023-11-02 . John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation... . en.
- Web site: Convocatorias Fondo Audiovisual . 2023-11-02 . www.fondosdecultura.cl . es.
- Web site: Emergency Grants: Recipients . 2023-11-02 . www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org.
- Web site: Past Grantees Jerome Foundation . 2023-11-02 . www.jeromefdn.org . en.
- Web site: I impersonated Britney on TV 2011 . 2023-11-02 . CLAUDIA BITRAN . en.
- Web site: Claudia Bitran . 2023-11-02 . Claudia Bitran.
- Web site: 2014-09-27 . 2014 skowheganPERFORMS . 2023-11-02 . Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture . en-US.
- Web site: Claudia Bitran: Titanic, A Deep Emotion Roswell, NM . 2023-11-02 . roswell-nm.gov.
- Web site: 2017-03-01 . Claudia Bitran . 2023-11-02 . Smack Mellon . en-US.
- Web site: New Cuts and Burns Resident Claudia Bitran outpostartistsresources.org . 2023-11-02 . www.outpostartistsresources.org.
- Web site: Open Studios . 2023-11-02 . www.wassaicproject.org . en.
- Web site: Claudia Bitran . 2023-11-02 . Pratt Institute . en-us.
- Web site: Claudia Bitrán (Visual and Studio Arts) Faculty at Sarah Lawrence College . 2023-11-02 . www.sarahlawrence.edu . en.
- Web site: 2015-12-14 . 14 Fourth-Wave Feminist Artists Kicking A** And Showing It Too . 2023-11-02 . HuffPost UK . en.
- Web site: 2015-11-27 . Instagram is a new gallery space for these US female artists . 2023-11-02 . Dazed . en.