Julieta Beltran is a visual artist based in Guadalajara and Chicago, currently pursuing an MFA (2025) at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She earned her BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2020. Her work has been exhibited in Mexico, Peru, the U.S., and Europe, both individually and collectively.

Julieta’s practice explores psychological and felt experiences of embodiment. Using painting, writing, textiles, and action-based practices, she records scenarios that unravel contradictions in how we perceive the body. Her manipulation of materials captures figures as they evolve, reflecting feelings of in-betweenness and uprootedness central to her nomadic approach. Julieta’s work examines tensions between desire and discomfort, pleasure and abjection, especially as they intersect with social and gender expectations in the contexts she inhabits.