Claudia Bitrán


Claudia Bitrán is a painter, video artist, and educator. She spent her formative years in Santiago, Chile, and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.
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Early life and education

Bitrán spent her formative years in Santiago, Chile, and obtained her French Baccalauréat in literature at Lycée Saint-Exupéry, minoring in cinéma, while taking singing courses at La Escuela Moderna de Música de Chile. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in 2009 and earned her Master of Fine Arts in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2013.

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 maintains an active artistic career both in painting and in video, and shows internationally.
She is known primarily for her shot for shot remake of the film Titanic (1997), called Titanic, a deep emotion,
her Britney Spears Impersonations
and visual works, her painting animations that depict viral epic fails, and her white shoe teen installations.
Bitrán has had solo exhibitions at the KIOSK Cultural Center, in Ghent, Belgium, the Centro Cultural Matucana 100 in Santiago,
marytwo Gallery in Lucerne, Switzerland,
Signs and Symbols Gallery in New York, Cristin Tierney Gallery in New York, Walter Storms Galerie in Munich, Practice Gallery in Pennsylvania, and the Roswell Museum and Art Center in New Mexico.
Bitrán exhibited work at the art fair Spring/Break Art Show, New York, NY in a solo Artist Spotlight Booth Claudia Bitran: White Shoes, as well as at Filmfest Dresden International Short Film Festival, in Dresden, Germany,
and at Zona Maco with Cristin Tierney Gallery, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
Bitrán is the recipient of the Visual Arts Guggenheim Fellowship in 2023, the FondArt Nacional Audiovisual in 2022, the Emergency Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2015, and the Jerome Foundation Grant for Emerging Filmmakers in 2015. She received 1st Prize in the Britney Spears Dance Challenge, 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, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program, Smack Mellon Studio Program, Outpost Projects, and the Wassaic Projects. She works as an educator in the painting department of Pratt Institute.

Films about Bitran