J.D. Beltran
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Bio:
J.D. Beltran received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1998. In 2002 her work was selected for the Silver Award by I.D. magazine in the Installation category, and in 1999 her work was chosen for The Millennium Exhibition at the Alternative Museum in New York as well as the Bay Area Now 2 exhibition at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Her artwork has been reviewed in the New York Times, Wired, the Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner, and the Boston Globe, as well as in ArtNews, the New Art Examiner, and Art Papers.
J.D.’s work investigates the vocabulary of portraiture; she explores the concept of portraiture in video, paint, photography, text, sculpture, sound, and a host of other media. Last summer the MIT Media Lab commissioned her to create an interactive self-portrait for the exhibition “ID/Entity: Portraits of the Twenty-First Century” based on telephone machine messages and video, which piece was exhibited at the MIT media lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and at the Kitchen Gallery in New York City. Last fall Ms. Beltran also was featured in a solo exhibition of video, painted and multi-media portraits she created based on personal ads at the Bellevue Art Museum near Seattle, Washington. Her work has been screened and exhibited internationally, including venues such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Champ Libre International Video and Electronic Art Film Festival and Exhibition in Montreal, Canada, Sesto Senso in Bologna, Italy, and at other museums and galleries across the world. She is represented by Haines Gallery in San Francisco and lives and works in San Francisco.
Filmography/Awards Info:
2003 Telephone Story: A Portrait (Interactive DVD) (video, digital media, sound); "Twenty-One Secrets," (Three screen video installation, video, sound); "I wish to remain anonymous," short film
2002 Telephone Story: A Portrait (Short Version Film) (video, digital media, sound); The One? (video, digital media, found footage)
2001 Telephone Story: A Portrait (video, digital media, sound; interactive self-portrait commissioned by the MIT Media Lab); a sonatina (video, digital media, collaboration with Josh Carr); Blue Muse (video, digital media); Blue (portrait of my father) (video, digital media)
Blue & Black (portrait of my mother) (video, digital media)
2000 Bluer (These are a few of my favorite things) (video, digital media); Portraits, Blue Series (video, digital media); Blue Whim (Self-Portrait) (video, digital media)
1999 Details Series (video, digital media)
1998-99 Mastercopies Series (video, digital media)
1997 Portrait: Moments in an Art School (slide narrative with sound track);Is Beauty Where You Find It? (internet interactive digital media site)
1996 Dirty Laundry (digital media animation)
2002 Silver Award, 2002 Interactive Media Design Review, Installation Category, I.D. Magazine; Finalist, Bay Area Award Show, New Langton Arts; Nomination for the IN/SITE Award (formerly the SECA Award), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2001 Artist in Residence, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington; Associate Artist, Atlantic Center for the Arts
2000 Holter Museum of Art Annual Juried Exhibition Honorable Mention
1999 ArtCouncil Artist’s Grant
1998 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Summer Residency; David McMillan Award for Most Outstanding Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute Master of Fine Arts Exhibition; Judith Banks Memorial Award
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Bluer (These Are a Few of My Favorite Things)
directed by J.D. Beltran
USA, Experimental,
2003,
DV,
Color,
Silent,
00:07:11
A video self-portrait.... more info
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Telephone Story: A Portrait (2003)
directed by J.D. Beltran
USA, Documentary,
2003,
DV,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:19:00
A view of the artist's world through the telephone answering machine.... more info
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Telephone Story: A Portrait, Message #1
directed by J.D. Beltran
USA, Documentary,
2001,
DV,
Color,
00:02:00
A portrait of relationships, and life, as told through telephone messages saved on my answering machine.... more info
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Telephone Story: A Portrait, Message #2
directed by J.D. Beltran
USA, Documentary,
2001,
DV,
Color,
00:03:00
A portrait of relationships, and life, as told through telephone messages saved on my answering machine.... more info
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Telephone Story: A Portrait, Message #3
directed by J.D. Beltran
USA, Documentary,
2001,
DV,
Color,
00:02:00
A portrait of relationships, and life, as told through telephone messages saved on my answering machine.... more info
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Twenty-One Secrets, Parts A, B, C
directed by J.D. Beltran
USA, Experimental,
2003,
DV,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:14:30
Do you have a secret? "Twenty-One Secrets" is a suite of filmic portraits
by San Francisco visual artist J.D. Beltran based on secrets sent to her
anonymously from all over the country.
Ms. Beltran, who... more info
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