Claudia Bitrán
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Claudia Bitrán is a painter, video artist, and teacher who lives in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an MFA in Painting RISD (2013) and a BFA from PUC de Chile (2009). Solo exhibitions include Cristin Tierney Gallery (2026), KIOSK, Gent (2025) Centro Cultural Matucana 100 (2024), Signs and Symbols (2023), Cristin Tierney Gallery (2022), and Walter Storms Galerie (2021), among others. Awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship (2023), FondArt Nacional Audiovisual (2022), and grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and Jerome Foundation. She has held residencies at Pioneer Works, Skowhegan, and Bemis Center among others.
BE DRUNK, 2021
Painting animation on CRT tv, 2 min loop.
Be Drunk is a 2-minute stop-motion painting animation inspired by viral videos of young drunk teenagers and animals acting erratically. Bitrán loops these animations on a CRT TV to evoke a sense of entrapment, the monitor acting as a physical cage in which these chaotic characters fall and fail again and again. Key frames and underpaintings clash and abstract the images with visceral, urgent speed.
Exhibitions
Over & Under by Claudia Bitrán