BIO
Claudia Bitrán (1986) is a painter, video artist and teacher who spent her formative years in Santiago, Chile and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an MFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design (2013), and a BFA from the Universidad Católica de Chile (2009).
Notable future and past solo exhibitions include Centro Cultural Matucana 100 (Santiago 2023), Signs and Symbols Gallery (NY 2022), Cristin Tierney Gallery (NY 2022), Walter Storms Galerie (Munich 2020), Practice Gallery (PA 2018), Roswell Museum and Art Center (NM 2017), Museo de Artes Visuales (Santiago 2016). She has participated in group exhibitions, screenings and performances worldwide.
Among selected grants and awards are a Visual Arts Guggenheim Fellowship (2023), a FondArt Nacional Audiovisual (2022), Emergency Grant Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2015), Jerome Foundation Grant for Emerging Filmmakers (2015),1st Prize Britney Spears Dance Challenge,1st Prize UFO McDonald’s Painting Competition,1st mention at Bienal de Artes Mediales, Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile.
Bitrán was a resident at Pioneer Works, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program, Smack Mellon Studio Program, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Outpost Projects and will be at Wassaic Projects in 2023.
She teaches in the painting departments at Pratt Institute and Sarah Lawrence College.
Claudia Bitrán (1986) is a painter, video artist and teacher who spent her formative years in Santiago, Chile and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an MFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design (2013), and a BFA from the Universidad Católica de Chile (2009).
Notable future and past solo exhibitions include Centro Cultural Matucana 100 (Santiago 2023), Signs and Symbols Gallery (NY 2022), Cristin Tierney Gallery (NY 2022), Walter Storms Galerie (Munich 2020), Practice Gallery (PA 2018), Roswell Museum and Art Center (NM 2017), Museo de Artes Visuales (Santiago 2016). She has participated in group exhibitions, screenings and performances worldwide.
Among selected grants and awards are a Visual Arts Guggenheim Fellowship (2023), a FondArt Nacional Audiovisual (2022), Emergency Grant Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2015), Jerome Foundation Grant for Emerging Filmmakers (2015),1st Prize Britney Spears Dance Challenge,1st Prize UFO McDonald’s Painting Competition,1st mention at Bienal de Artes Mediales, Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile.
Bitrán was a resident at Pioneer Works, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program, Smack Mellon Studio Program, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Outpost Projects and will be at Wassaic Projects in 2023.
She teaches in the painting departments at Pratt Institute and Sarah Lawrence College.
Claudia Bitrán
1986, United States-Chile
Eduacation
2013 MFA Painting Rhode Island School of Design, RI, United States
2009 BFA Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Residencies
August 2023 Wassaic Projects Residency, NY
April 2021-Sept 2021 Pioneer Works Artist Residency, New York
June-July 2018 Outpost Artist Resources, Cuts and Burns Residency, New York
June 2017-May 2018 Smack Mellon Artist Studio Program, New York
April 2016 - April 2017 ROSWELL Artist-in-Residence Program, New Mexico
Oct-Nov-Dec 2014 BEMIS Center for contemporary Arts, Nebraska
June-July-August 2014 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine
Grants and Awards
April 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship Fine Arts, New York, NY
January 2023 Fondart Nacional Linea Audiovisual Experimental, Chile
August 2022 Fondart Nacional Linea Artes Visuales, Chile
October 2017 The New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellowship 2017-2018
April 2016 Hammersley Grant, Roswell Artist in Residence Program
November 2015 Emergency Grant for Artists, Foundation for Contemporary Arts
October 2015 Jerome Foundation Grant for emerging Filmmakers
May 2013 GSA Grant, Rhode Island School of Design
Exhibitions and Screenings (*solo)
Upcoming
*April-May 2025 Claudia Bitran: Titanic, a deep Emotion solo exhibition at KIOSK Cultural Center, Ghent, Belgium
Past
*Sept 2024 Artist Spotlight Booth Claudia Bitran: White Shoes at Spring Break Art Show, New York, NY
April 16-21 2024 Filmfest Dresden – International Short Film Festival, Dresden, Germany.
Feb 7th-11th 2024 Zona Maco with Cristin Tierney Gallery, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
*Dec12th -Feb 2nd 2023-24 Claudia Bitrán: Titanic a deep emotion Exposición individual, Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Santiago Chile
*Oct 27th-Dec 2023 Claudia Bitrán: Broken over the top at marytwo gallery, Lucerne, Switzerland
June 29th-Aug 23rd 2023 Group exhibition Yours Truly at HYB4 Galerie, curated by Liam C Floyd, Prague, Czech Republic
June 28th-Aug 18th 2023 Group Exhibition Bellyache at CHART Gallery, curated by Shona McAndrew, New York
May 2023 Group Exhibition Tarde Pal Party at Hidrante Gallery, San Juan Puerto Rico
March 2nd-April 6th 2023 Group Exhibition Bliss Information, Gelman Gallery, RISD Museum, RI
Jan 26th-Feb 26th 2023 Group Exhibition Convergence at Heimbold Gallery, Sarah Lawrence College, NY
Dec 7th-Jan 18th 2023 Body Burdens Group Exhibition, at NYU Gellatin Gallery, New York, NY
Oct 18th-Dec 2022 Fine Arts Faculty/Staff Group Exhibition Part I, Curated by Kyle Staver at the Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
*Sept 7th 2022-Oct 29th 2022 Claudia Bitran: White Shoes at Signs and Symbols Gallery, Curated by Kathy Battista, NYC
Aug-Sept 2022 Group Screening Ciclo de Videoarte Chileno Bienal SACO, curated by Javier Gonzalez Pesce, Sala Licancabur, Antofagasta Chile
June- August 2022 Group Exhibition Metafiguration at Tops Gallery, Memphis, TN
May-June 2022 Group Exhibition at Pablo’s Birthday Gallery, New York, NY
May-June 2022 Group Exhibition The Shop, at Marytwo Galley, Lucerne, Switzerland
*March 11th- April 16th 2022 Solo exhibition Claudia Bitrán: Stereotypies at Cristin Tierney Gallery New York
February 2022 Group Screening The Ulterior Narrative at Gallery TickTack, Antwerp, Belgium
*Dec- Jan 2021 Solo exhibition Claudia Bitrán: soy tú at Instituto Telearte, Santiago, Chile, Opening Dec 11
June 29th-August 2021 Group Exhibition Density betrays us at The Hole, curated by Angela Dufresne, Andrew Woolbright, Melissa Ragona, New York
June 30 - August 6th 2021 Group Exhibition Play at Cindy Rucker Gallery, New York
June 14, 15, 16 the 2021 Online Group Exhibition Acción Performance, organized by One Moment Art and Matucana 100, Santiago Chile
May 26th- July 11th 2021 Online Group Exhibition Text Based at Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York
*May-June 2021 Two Video works by Claudia Bitrán at SP2 media gallery at Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, Dallas, TX
*April 24th-28th 2021 Claudia Bitrán: Titanic filming scenes and and screening at Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, Dallas, Texas
*April 14th 2021 Claudia Bitrán Online conversation with Candace Moeller and screening at Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York, NY
April 9th-April 23, 2021 Diamonds, Razors and Champagne , group show at 191 East 3rd Street, New York Curated by Lee Masterson
*Nov 26th 2020-Feb 13th 2021, Claudia Bitrán Be Drunk solo exhibition at Walter Storms Galerie, Munich Germany
Dec 15th 2020-Jan 25th 2021 PAPER, online group show at Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York, NY
April - May 2020 Virtual Group Exhibition Well now wtf at Silicon Valet organized by Faith Holland / Lorna Mills / Wade Wallertsein
March 13– April 12, 2020, Might Delete Later, group show, at Essex Flowers Gallery, New York, NY (Online only COVID19)
*March 1 – March 9, 2020, Claudia Bitrán: Frenzy, Solo booth Spring Break Art Fair, New York, NY
Feb 1 – March 7, 2020, Vicious Frames, 3-person show curated by Lauren Powell, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
Jan 28th-Feb 2020, Reshaping Landscapes, group exhibition chilean artists, with Vitrina Lab, curated by Mahara Martinez, Coral Gables, Miami, FL
Nov 22 – Dec 15, 2019, Under Time of Lampshades, curated by Jess Cannon, Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
22—25 August 2019, Oulu Music Video Festival at Cultural Center Valve, Oulu, Finland
June 22 – August 2, 2019, Trittbrettfahrer, three-person exhibition, Cindy Rucker Gallery, New York, NY
June 11th 2019, Group Screening curated by Candace Moeller, at Elsewhere, Bushwick, NY, opening reception June 11, 2019
May 9th-June 1st, 2019, Group Exhibition Vitrina Lab: Chilean Artists, organized by Vitrina Lab, Miami, FL
March 15th, 2019, Screening Memorial for Dawn Clements, organized by Angela Dufresne and Cate Giordano, Luncheonette, Brooklyn, NY
Feb 2019- Axxon N: A collective commentary on David Lynch’s INLAND EMPIRE Organized by Jonathan Ehrenberg and Sean McCarthy, Essex Flowers, NY
Feb 2019 - Group Screening at Fjord Gallery, PA
Jan 2019 Group Screening at The Echo Park Film Center , curated by Anna Garner, Los Angeles, CA
* Nov 2018-Jan 2019 Solo exhibition Filters and Dolphin Sounds by Claudia Bitran at Martin Art Gallery at Muhlenberg College, PA
Nov 8-10 2018, Video Art & Experimental Film Festival, Tribeca Film Center and DCTV, New York
October-November 2018 Group exhibition Juventud at Galería Nemesio Antúnez, Santiago, Chile
Sept-Oct 2018 Online Group exhibition Slow Deep Breath at Far x Wide curated by Jess Cannon, NY
* August 2018 Solo exhibition White Shoes by Claudia Bitran at Practice Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
July 21st-July 29th 2018 Group Exhibition Este puede ser el lugar at Carmen 36, Santiago, Chile
April 13th-20th 2018 Before Binge Watching Screening Series at Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taiwan
Jan 12th-Feb 14th 2018 Group exhibition LOVE: 2018 Purple Hearts at Columbia University, curated by Rachel Stern, NY
* December 10th, 2017-Feb 28th 2018, Solo exhibition Earth Line, Claudia Bitran at Brooklyn Bridge Park, NY
November 2017 Replacing Place at Anytime Dept, curated by Curated by MK Guth and Candace Moeller, (screening on Nov 10th), Cincinnati, Ohio
November 2017 NURTUREart’s 20th Anniversary Celebration and Silent Auction, EFA Project Space, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NY
October 31st, 2017 Group show and screening LIC Fear, Long Island City, NY
Sepember 28-October 1st 2017 TIMESHARE: REFRAMED Video screening series, IMAX theater Hadid Space, New York
Sepember 23-24, 2017 Smack Mellon Open Studios, Opening reception Sept 23rd 6-8pm, NY
April-May 2017 2nd Changjiang International Photography and Video Biennale, Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China
* Feb-March 2017 Solo exhibition A deep emotion Claudia Bitran, Roswell Museum and Art Center, New Mexico
March 5th 2017 CH-CH-CH-CHANGES (turn and face the strange) screening, presented by EVBG at Spektrum, Berlin
October 20th 2016, LGBT Milwaukee Film/Video Festival , UWM Union Cinema, Milwaukee, WI
Nov 3-Dec 10, 2016 Online Exhibition #35: Julie spoke softly under her long, skinny nose, Field Projects Gallery, NY
* January-March 2016 Solo exhibition Profundo, Museum of Visual Arts - Museo de Artes Visuales, MAVI, Santiago, Chile
Oct 2015, Bienal de Artes Mediales, XII Concurso a la Creación y Autoría Juan Downey, Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
Sept 2015, Group Exhibition No Irony Here, at The Parlour Bushwick, curated by Rachel Phillips, Brooklyn
* Sept 20th, 2015, Solo Screening Offscreen::: (4) Credits, Clips, Trailers, at the Chinese American Arts Council, curated by David Xu Borgonjon, NY
June 2015, Group Exhibition Unapproachable America, at Gallery Projekt 722, curated by Jeremy Jacob Shlangen, Brooklyn
May 14th, 2015, Screening The Impossible, at The Skowhegan Alliance, curated by Jesus Benavente, Alan Calpe, Rachel Frank, Noah Klersfield, NY
March 27th-29th, 2015, 485 Lorimer St Pop-Up Show, organized by mattia Casalegno, Lilian Kreutzberger and Luka Rayski, Brooklyn
* March 2015 Solo exhibition A deep emotion, at This Friday or Next Friday Gallery, Brooklyn
November 2014 Click Click Click Screening at Hannah Macclure Centre, University of Dundee for NEoN Digital Arts Festival, Scotland
September 2014 Filmideo Screening at Index Art Center, curated by Amanda Thackray and Karl Erickson, Newark, New Jersey
September 2014 Skowhegan PERFORMS, installation/performance Disaster at Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
September 2014 Click Click Click Screening at Whitebox Art Center, Curated by Faith Holland and Nora O Murchu, New York
April 2014 Bad Film Fest screening, Cloud City Brooklyn
March 2014 Sacred Nipples screening at The Last Brucennial, curated by Anne Sherwood and Go! Push Pops, 837 Washington St, NY
March 2014 Group show Forgive me I love you, with Filip Olzewsky & Michelle Rawlings, Gallery Projekt 722, curated by Hilary Doyle & Reid Hitt, NY
* Feb 2014 Solo exhibition The Zone at Pleasant Library Art Gallery, Pleasentville, New York
Feb 2014 Two person exhibition From a distance, with Alejandra Wolff, Jewett Art Gallery, Wellesley College, MA
October 2013 screening Popular Unknown at SIMULTAN art festival, Romania
August 2013 Screening Videoholica Video Art Festival, Varna, Bulgaria.
July 2013 Negative Joy Screening curated by Angela Dufresne, Roxbury Abbey, NY
July 2013 Group Show Well Gallery Project 722, Brooklyn, New York
July 2013 Group Show Thirteen Twenty Three, curated by Tamara Johnson and Lee Johnson, 964 Dean Street, Brooklyn, New York
June 2013 Selected Works from Graduate Thesis Exhibition, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island
May-June 2013 RISD Graduate Thesis Exhibition, Convention Center, Providence, Rhode Island
May 2013 Group Show Too many cooks above the Kitchen 77 Eddy st, Providence, Rhode Island
Feb 2013 Group Show Transmediation, curated by Micol Hebron, Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York
Jan 2013 Group Show More And More More is More, Gelman Gallery, RISD, Rhode Island
2012 Group Show NOW! vol 2, Oliver Francis Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2012 Group Show Too big to fail, Sol Koffler Gallery, RISD, Rhode Island, Unided States
2012 Group Show From this point forward, Gelman Gallery, RISD Museum, Rhode Island, United States
2012 Group Show Show me your glands, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, New York, United States
2012 Group Show Two become one Wayfarers Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, United States
2011 Group Show Concurso Universitario Balmaceda Arte Joven, MAC, Museum of Contemporary Art, Quinta Normal, Santiago, Chile.
2011 Two person Show Con objeto de acabar con el planeta, collaboration with artist Paz Ortuzar, YONO Gallery, Santiago, Chile
2011 Group Show Cifra, Silencio e Imagen, Coorporacion Cultural de Las Condes, Santiago, Chile
2011/2012 Itinerant Group Show Concurso de Acuarela Hardy Witsuba 2011, five regions, Chile
2010/01 Group show Perspectivas, Art Hall, Itaú Bank, Santiago,Chile
2009/12 Group show Sin Título, Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile
2009/12 Exhibition/Prize. Cabeza de Ratón, MAVI, Visual Arts Museum, Santiago, Chile
2009/07 group show Realismo y no tanto, Salón Tudor, Santiago, Chile
2008/09 Group show Segunda mano, MUCHA Museum, Mendoza, Argentina
2008/08-2008/09 Group show Miradas sobre el lienzo, Ana Cortés Gallery,UMCE, Santiago, Chile
2008/07-2008/08 Group show Guardapolvo, Balmaceda 1215 Gallery, Santiago, Chile
2008/06 Group show Sampling, Moto Gallery, Santiago, Chile
* 2008/01-2008/02 Solo exhibition Receso de una actitud, Caucobú Gallery, La Serena, Chile
2007 & 2006 Group show Salón Oficial Espacio Vilches, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Group show Escuela Abierta Campus Oriente P.U.C.
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Performance
March 2021 Cena y Almuerzo de Primera Clase colaboración with Los Contadores Auditores
Sept 26 2018 My heart will go Performance by Claudia Bitran for Leonardo Gonzalez's play No llegó la Sangre al Río, Brooklyn NY
Sept 15 2018 Performance of La Britney Chilena at La Fonda York, Brooklyn New York
July 2015 There's truth but no logic performance/shoot at Y Gallery, curated by Florencia San Martin, New York, NY
Nov 2014 I'm Flying! kiss stand installation and performance at BarterTown, curated by Heather Hart, Omaha, NE
Nov 2014 Performed as the Goddess of Fire for Circuit of the Senses by Artist Emilie Baltz at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, NE
Sept 2014 SkowheganPERFORMS, installation/performance Disaster at Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
May 2014 Approval comes from within performance in collaboration with artist Tamara Johnson, at Gallery Projekt 722, Brooklyn
Dec 2013 DIOSATROPICAL live Performance El Duelo at Taller el Leon, Santiago, Chile
Dec 2013 Marry Christmas like Oops performance at Zona Rosa Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York
2013 Acting in Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler's video collaboration River of Fundament, NY
2012 Performace Fuck you I'm Sorry collaboration with artists Anna Hummer and Quintin Rivera-Toro, Show me your glands exhibition, curator Tamara Johnson, Nars Foundation, Brooklyn, New York, United States
2012 Performance Tropical dance, in activity Plebian Fiasco, Boston, MA
2011 Dancer for Shaolin Dragon's Music video VIP en el Club
2011 Britney Spears Impersonator in Chilean reality TV show Mi nombre es (acting, singing, dancing), Santiago, Chile
2011 Britney Spears Impersonator in private events.
2006-2013 Member of DIOSATROPICAL collective. Performance and video. Actress, art director, scriptwriter and editor, Santiago, Chile
2010 Actress and singer in the musical film Si maduras te mato (If you grow up I’ll kill you), directed by Nicolás Oyarce, Santiago Chile
Teaching
Spring 2023 Senior Painting Thesis, Pratt Institute , NY, United States
Spring 2023 Introduction to Painting Sarah Lawrence College
Fall 2022 Senior Painting Thesis, Pratt Institute , NY, United States
Fall 2022 Painting Pop Sarah Lawrence College
Fall 2022 Introduction to Painting Sarah Lawrence College
Spring 2022 Senior Painting Thesis, Pratt Institute , NY, United States
Spring 2022 From Paint to Film and Back RISD
Fall 2021 Experiments in Drawing RISD
Fall 2022 Senior Painting Thesis, Pratt Institute , NY, United States
Spring 2021 From Paint to Film and Back RISD
Spring 2021 Senior Painting Thesis, Pratt Institute , NY, United States
Winter 2020-2021 Experimental Painting Intensive RISD
Fall 2020 Painting Workshop Pratt Institute
Fall 2020 Experiments in Drawing Seniors RISD
Summer 2020 BA and MA Workshop, SIA, Beijing, China
Summer 2020 Painting Under Contemporary Influence, Pratt Institute, NY
Spring 2020 Senior Painting Thesis, Rhode Island School of Design, RI
Spring 2020 Senior Painting Thesis, Pratt Institute , NY, United States
Winter 2020 Painting Marathon, Rhode Island School of Design, RI
Fall 2019 Painting Workshop, Rhode Island School of Design, RI, United States
Fall 2019 Painting I, Pratt Institute, NY, United States
Spring 2018-Fall 2019 NYC Crit Club Instructor, NY, United States
Curated Exhibitions
Sept 2019-ongoing, Public Mural for NYC Crit Club students at The Bushwick Starr Theater, organized by Claudia Bitran and Noel Allain, Bushwick, NY
July 11th, 2019, Under the Magnifying Glass, Exhibition of NYC Crit Club Students, curated by NYC Crit Club Instructor Claudia Bitran, Gallery Cubed, NY
Jan 5th 2017, NO HORIZON, Interplanetary video screening organized by Claudia Bitran, Felipe Muhr and Paz Ortuzar. Took place simultaneously at the Roswell Planetarium and at the Santiago de Chile Planetarium.
May 11th 2015, Sun Screening Vol. II, at Videology 308 Bedford Ave, curated by Claudia Bitran
April 19th, 2015, Karaoke Spring Soiree, at Humboldt & Jackson, curated by Claudia Bitran and Angela Dufresne, Special Guests Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble.
May 19th, 2014, Sun Screening Vol. I, at Videology 308 Bedford Ave, curated by Claudia Bitran
May 2014, Group show Gravity, at Galery Projekt 722, curated by Claudia Bitran and Bayne Peterson
March 2021 Cena y Almuerzo de Primera Clase colaboración with Los Contadores Auditores
Sept 26 2018 My heart will go Performance by Claudia Bitran for Leonardo Gonzalez's play No llegó la Sangre al Río, Brooklyn NY
Sept 15 2018 Performance of La Britney Chilena at La Fonda York, Brooklyn New York
July 2015 There's truth but no logic performance/shoot at Y Gallery, curated by Florencia San Martin, New York, NY
Nov 2014 I'm Flying! kiss stand installation and performance at BarterTown, curated by Heather Hart, Omaha, NE
Nov 2014 Performed as the Goddess of Fire for Circuit of the Senses by Artist Emilie Baltz at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, NE
Sept 2014 SkowheganPERFORMS, installation/performance Disaster at Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
May 2014 Approval comes from within performance in collaboration with artist Tamara Johnson, at Gallery Projekt 722, Brooklyn
Dec 2013 DIOSATROPICAL live Performance El Duelo at Taller el Leon, Santiago, Chile
Dec 2013 Marry Christmas like Oops performance at Zona Rosa Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York
2013 Acting in Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler's video collaboration River of Fundament, NY
2012 Performace Fuck you I'm Sorry collaboration with artists Anna Hummer and Quintin Rivera-Toro, Show me your glands exhibition, curator Tamara Johnson, Nars Foundation, Brooklyn, New York, United States
2012 Performance Tropical dance, in activity Plebian Fiasco, Boston, MA
2011 Dancer for Shaolin Dragon's Music video VIP en el Club
2011 Britney Spears Impersonator in Chilean reality TV show Mi nombre es (acting, singing, dancing), Santiago, Chile
2011 Britney Spears Impersonator in private events.
2006-2013 Member of DIOSATROPICAL collective. Performance and video. Actress, art director, scriptwriter and editor, Santiago, Chile
2010 Actress and singer in the musical film Si maduras te mato (If you grow up I’ll kill you), directed by Nicolás Oyarce, Santiago Chile
Teaching
Spring 2023 Senior Painting Thesis, Pratt Institute , NY, United States
Spring 2023 Introduction to Painting Sarah Lawrence College
Fall 2022 Senior Painting Thesis, Pratt Institute , NY, United States
Fall 2022 Painting Pop Sarah Lawrence College
Fall 2022 Introduction to Painting Sarah Lawrence College
Spring 2022 Senior Painting Thesis, Pratt Institute , NY, United States
Spring 2022 From Paint to Film and Back RISD
Fall 2021 Experiments in Drawing RISD
Fall 2022 Senior Painting Thesis, Pratt Institute , NY, United States
Spring 2021 From Paint to Film and Back RISD
Spring 2021 Senior Painting Thesis, Pratt Institute , NY, United States
Winter 2020-2021 Experimental Painting Intensive RISD
Fall 2020 Painting Workshop Pratt Institute
Fall 2020 Experiments in Drawing Seniors RISD
Summer 2020 BA and MA Workshop, SIA, Beijing, China
Summer 2020 Painting Under Contemporary Influence, Pratt Institute, NY
Spring 2020 Senior Painting Thesis, Rhode Island School of Design, RI
Spring 2020 Senior Painting Thesis, Pratt Institute , NY, United States
Winter 2020 Painting Marathon, Rhode Island School of Design, RI
Fall 2019 Painting Workshop, Rhode Island School of Design, RI, United States
Fall 2019 Painting I, Pratt Institute, NY, United States
Spring 2018-Fall 2019 NYC Crit Club Instructor, NY, United States
Curated Exhibitions
Sept 2019-ongoing, Public Mural for NYC Crit Club students at The Bushwick Starr Theater, organized by Claudia Bitran and Noel Allain, Bushwick, NY
July 11th, 2019, Under the Magnifying Glass, Exhibition of NYC Crit Club Students, curated by NYC Crit Club Instructor Claudia Bitran, Gallery Cubed, NY
Jan 5th 2017, NO HORIZON, Interplanetary video screening organized by Claudia Bitran, Felipe Muhr and Paz Ortuzar. Took place simultaneously at the Roswell Planetarium and at the Santiago de Chile Planetarium.
May 11th 2015, Sun Screening Vol. II, at Videology 308 Bedford Ave, curated by Claudia Bitran
April 19th, 2015, Karaoke Spring Soiree, at Humboldt & Jackson, curated by Claudia Bitran and Angela Dufresne, Special Guests Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble.
May 19th, 2014, Sun Screening Vol. I, at Videology 308 Bedford Ave, curated by Claudia Bitran
May 2014, Group show Gravity, at Galery Projekt 722, curated by Claudia Bitran and Bayne Peterson
Visiting Artist and Talks
(Needs update)
April, 2019, Visiting Artist and Talk for Painting Department, Rhode Island School of Design April, Visiting Critic for Junior Sculpture, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY October 2018, Visiting Artist at Stamps School of Art, University of Michigan August 2018 Talk and screening for El Salon, Curated by Eva Mayabal Davis and New Women Space, Brooklyn NY August 2018 Visiting Critic for New York Crit Club, Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn June 2018 Moderator for Meg Mondays by Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble, Abrons Art Center, NY May 2018 Talk for BFA Senior class, MassArt Painting, Boston, MA Mach 2018 Talk for MFA Student University of Florida, NY. Nov 2017 Talk for BFA Senior class, MassArt Painting, Boston, MA Oct 2017 Visiting artist for Girl Stories, Children's Museum, NY Oct 2017 Talk for MFA program University of Michigan February 10th, 2017, artist talk at the Roswell Museum and Art Center Auditorium, Roswell, New Mexico October 20th 2016, artist talk at the "Titanic Artifact Exhibition", Western Heritage Museum, Hobbs, New Mexico February 2016, artist talk for Circuitos del Arte I , facultad de Arte, Diseño y Comunicación AIEP December 3rd 2016, Screening and Artist Talk at Rutgers University May 2015 Panelist for MEGMONDAYS, Meg Ryan conversations, at the Luv Pavilion pop-up space, hosted by Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble, NY May 2015 Guest Artist BFA students Purchase College, NY |
April 2015 Storytelling for Pause the Tape, talks about dance movies, hosted by Bonnie and Maude, Videology, Brooklyn,
Oct 2014 Artist Talk for Senior Seminar Painting and Drawing Dept, Purchase College, NY Feb 2014 Artist Talk at The Jewett Art Gallery, Wellesley College, MA December 2013 Guest critic for Open Media class, Film and Animation Department, Rhode Island School of Design, RI November 2013 Artist talk and guest critic for Digital Media Department, Rhode Island School of Design, RI October 2013 Artist talk for MBA Program, Columbia University, NY |
Writing
-The Contemporaries: Travels in the 21st Century Art World, Roger White, p23-5, Bloomsbury, 2015
-The World Herald, Monday December 8th, 2014, Artist in Omaha making a shot-by-shot remake of James Cameron's 'Titanic' written by Casey Logan
-VIDEOHOLICA Retrospective Catalog: Videoholica Special Selections 2008 - 2013 and Videoholica 2014
-Emergency Index Vol.2, Ugly Duckling Press, 2012
-Pintura Chilena Contemporánea; práctica y desplazamientos disciplinares desde Escuela de Arte UC, Pintura Chilena Hoy, Carlos Ampuero, Patricia Novoa, Francisco Schwember, 2013
-Introducing: Claudia Bitran by Rick Macello on Kaiotic Music, 2013
-Caixalote Revista de arte, Claudia Bitran by Regianne Ishii http://caixalote.com/claudia-bitran/
-The Contemporaries: Travels in the 21st Century Art World, Roger White, p23-5, Bloomsbury, 2015
-The World Herald, Monday December 8th, 2014, Artist in Omaha making a shot-by-shot remake of James Cameron's 'Titanic' written by Casey Logan
-VIDEOHOLICA Retrospective Catalog: Videoholica Special Selections 2008 - 2013 and Videoholica 2014
-Emergency Index Vol.2, Ugly Duckling Press, 2012
-Pintura Chilena Contemporánea; práctica y desplazamientos disciplinares desde Escuela de Arte UC, Pintura Chilena Hoy, Carlos Ampuero, Patricia Novoa, Francisco Schwember, 2013
-Introducing: Claudia Bitran by Rick Macello on Kaiotic Music, 2013
-Caixalote Revista de arte, Claudia Bitran by Regianne Ishii http://caixalote.com/claudia-bitran/