Claudia Bitrán

Claudia Bitrán (born 1986) is a painter, video artist, and educator. She spent her formative years in Santiago, Chile, and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

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 (BFA) at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in 2009 and earned her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2013. 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 (2025), the Centro Cultural Matucana 100 in Santiago (2023), marytwo Gallery in Lucerne, Switzerland (2023), Signs and Symbols Gallery in New York (2022), Cristin Tierney Gallery in New York (2022), Walter Storms Galerie in Munich (2020), Practice Gallery in Pennsylvania (2018), and the Roswell Museum and Art Center in New Mexico (2017).

Bitrán exhibited work at the art fair Spring/Break Art Show, New York, NY (2024) in a solo Artist Spotlight Booth Claudia Bitran: White Shoes, as well as at Filmfest Dresden International Short Film Festival, in Dresden, Germany, (2024) and at Zona Maco with Cristin Tierney Gallery, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico (2024)

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. 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 The F Word (2015) – directed by Robert Adanto; about various fourth-wave feminist artists