J.D. Beltran is a conceptual artist exploring the contexts, language, and scope of portraiture.  Her work has been screened and exhibited internationally, including at the Walker Art Center, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Kitchen Gallery, New York, the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Singapore Digital Mediafest, Cite Des Ondes Video Et Art Electronique in Montreal, Canada, Sesto Senso in Bologna, Italy, Festival VIDEOFORMES in Clermont-Ferrand, France, the ISEA/ZeroOne San Jose Festival, the Ingenuity Festival in Cleveland, Ohio, the Biennale for Electronic Arts in Perth, Australia, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the San Jose Museum, the Hammond Museum, the Holter Museum, the Bellevue Art Museum, The Ulrich Museum, and The Beall Center for Art and Technology in Irvine, California.  She was awarded a San Jose Cultural Commission Grant for a public art project exhibiting in the streets of San Jose from October 2007 – Spring 2009, and an Individual Artist Commission from the city of San Francisco in 2006.  Her San Jose project, “Downtown Mirror,” was recognized as on of the most outstanding public artworks for 2009 in the United States by the Public Art Network.  She also was awarded an Artadia grant in 1999, and residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Montalvo Arts Center. Other prizes include being awarded the Silver Award for the 2002 Interactive Media Design Review, Installation Category, ID Magazine.  Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Boston Globe, as well as in Art In America, ArtNews, the New Art Examiner, and Art Papers. She is faculty in the Film, New Genres, Design & Technology, Interdisciplinary Studies, Critical Studies, and Urban Studies Programs at the San Francisco Art Institute. She lives and works in San Francisco.

RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS

2009                    Appointment to the San Francisco Arts Commission, serving on the Executive Committee and the Visual Arts Committee

2009                    Fellowship, Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program Writing Workshop

2009                    Marcus Visual Arts Fellowship and Residency, Montalvo Center for the Arts

2009                    Best in Photography, Creative Quarterly Journal of Art & Design (featured in Issue Number 17)

2009 - 2010        Artist's Pool (Pre-Qualified), San Francisco Arts Commission Central Subway Public Projects

2007                    Individual Artist Commission, San Francisco Art Commission

2007                    Graduate Faculty Award, Outstanding Graduate Faculty 2006-2007 [LOGS], San Francisco Art Institute

2007                    Nominee, Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation

2006 - 2009        Public Art Commission for "Who's on First, What's on Second" City of San Jose Public Art Project

2005 - 2007        Artist's Pool (Pre-Qualified), San Francisco Arts Commission Public Projects

2005                    Nominee, SECA Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

2004                    Nominee, Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation

2003                    Nominee, InSITE (formerly SECA) Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

2002                    Silver Award, 2002 Interactive Media Design Review, Installation Category, I.D. Magazine

2002                    Teaching Residency, The Oxbow School

2002                    Finalist, Bay Area Award Show, New Langton Arts

2002                    Nominee, SECA Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

2001                    Artist in Residence and Solo Exhibition, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington

2001                    Associate Artist, Atlantic Center for the Arts

2000                    Holter Museum of Art Annual Juried Exhibition Honorable Mention

1999                    ArtCouncil  [Now ARTADIA] Artist’s Grant Award

1998                    Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Summer Residency

1998                    David McMillan Award for Most Outstanding Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute MFA Exhibition

1998                    Judith Banks Memorial Award

EDUCATION

B.S., University of Oregon

University of California, Berkeley

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

M.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute, May 1998

TEACHING POSITIONS

2002 - present    Faculty, San Francisco Art Institute, Film, New Genres, Design & Technology, Interdisciplinary Studies, Critical Studies,

                            and Urban Studies Departments

2006 - present    Chair, Post-Baccalaureate Program, San Francisco Art Institute

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010                “Material Language,” Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, California (January - March)

2009                “San Francisco Mirror/49 Stories” (interactive installation), Public Art Installation, City of San Francisco

2007 - 2009     “Downtown Mirror” (installation), Public Art Installation, City of San Jose (Oct. 2007 through Spring 2009)

2003                “Twenty-One Secrets” (installation), Mezzanine Gallery, San Francisco, California (July)

2001 & 2002    “eleventh,” (public art installation), Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington (October-December)

2001                “The Making of a Portrait,” Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington (October - December)

2000                “Portraits,” Blue, Byron C. Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri (September- November)

1999                “Details”, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California (November-December)

1999                “Portraits,” San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, California (August)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010                “Unexpected Reflections,” Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, California (January)

2009                “The Best of New York, Part 1,” Broadway Gallery, New York, New York (September)

2009                “Cantocore” Mission 17 Gallery, San Francisco, California (February-April)

2009                "The Ingenuity Festival," Cleveland, Ohio (July)

2008                “The Geography of Conflict,” Swell Gallery, San Francisco, California (December)

2008                “Girls On Film,” The Garage, San Francisco, California (November)

2008                “DMFest 2008,” Singapore Digital Media Festival 2008, Singapore, (October)

2008                “Intimacy,” [also co-curator and co-producer], Litquake, San Francisco, California (October)

2008                “Cantocore:  Export,” Ping Pong Gallery, Guangzou, China (September)

2008                “The Unconvention,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota (August- September)

2008                “Downtown Mirror [Airplanes],” 01SJ Biennial, San Jose, California (temporary public art installation for the City of San Jose, June 4-9)

2008                “Reconciling America:  Miraculous Encounters with the Mundane,” San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, January – March, San Francisco,

2008                 California

2007                “Plant Lives,” Garage Biennale, San Francisco, California (curatorial project) (November-December)

2007                “Mastercopies,” Colorline, Oslo, Norway [permanent installation] (June – present)

2007                "The Ingenuity Festival," July 19-22, Cleveland, Ohio (July)

2007                “SFAI Now,” Market Street Gallery, San Francisco, California (May)

2007                "Driving Obsession," Mezzanine Gallery, February, San Francisco, California (video screening, February 2007)

2006                “San Francisco Camerawork,” [Annual Auction], San Francisco, CA (December)

2006                “Stanlee's Brain”, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Annual Artist Ball and Auction, San Francisco, CA (October)

2006                “ISEA/ZeroOne Festival”, C4F3, San Jose Museum of Art, ISEA 2006- Zero One San Jose Festival, San Jose, California (August)

2006                “Bedtime Stories,” Limn Gallery, San Francisco, CA (August)

2006                “Alien Presence H - [handmade echo]”, First Draft Gallery, in conjunction with the Sydney Biennale, Australia (June)

2006                “Momentum”, Southern Exposure Auction and Exhibition, San Francisco, CA  (May)

2006                “Peer Pleasure 1,” (reading), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California (February)

2005                “Mayhem,” juried show, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA (November-December)

2005                “Mayhem,” juried film and video screening, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA  (December)

2005                “Black Market Auction,” Independent School of Art, Hayes Valley Market, San Francisco, CA  (September)

2005                ”New Langton Arts Auction and Benefit 2005,” New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA  (December)

2005                “San Francisco Camerawork Auction,” San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA  (December)

2005                “Commission 05,” San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, CA (Oct.)

2005                ”Losing It,” Grotto Nights at the Koret Theater (video screening), Main Public Library, CA (June)

2005                “San Francisco Art Institute Art Auction 2005”, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California (March)

2005                ”{self}_representation,” Le Musee Di-Visioniste, Ongoing Online Project, NewMediaArtProjectNetwork

2004                “Biennale for Electronic Arts,” Perth, Australia (September-November)

2004                “San Francisco Arts Commission Exhibition and Benefit 2004,” San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA (Oct.)

2004                “Creature Comforts,” New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA  (December)

2004                “Festival VIDEOFORMES,” AuctionVideoteque Ephemere, Clermont-Ferrand, France, (March)

2004                “San Francisco Art Institute Art Auction 2004”, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California (March)

2004                “Love and Other Difficulties,” Axiom Theatre (Independent Exposure Series), Houston, TX (Feb)

2004                “Main Street Microcinema,” Houston Downtown Entertainment Development Association Screening, Houston, TX (Feb)

2003                “Images of Desire 3,” Artwalk Amsterdam, Platvorm Jonas Snijder, Amsterdam,

2008                The Netherlands, (June-August)

2003                “Single Channel:  Collaborating with the Moving Image,” The Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston (April)

2003                “ID/Entity:  Portraits in the 21st Century,” interactive self-portrait installation commissioned by the MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA and The Kitchen,

2008                NewYork, NY (curated by Christina Yang and Judith Donath) shown as an interactive DVD at The Beall Center for Art and Technology, University of

2008                California, Irvine, and San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA (January to March)

2003                “Self/Projected:  The Moving Image As Self Portrait” (video screening), San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA  (March)

2003                “Shifting Perspectives: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Collection,” Ulrich Museum, Wichita State University  (March- present)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2010                “ Destination Art:  Taking Off,” (author), cover feature for Public Art Review, fall/winter 2009 edition, published January 2010

2009                Creative Arts Quarterly Issue number 17, Photography Merit award

2009                “Art and Culture Fix,” ongoing blog column for the online edition of the San Francisco Chronicle,

                        at http://www.sfgate.com/citybrights/authors/

2008                “Cantocore Import/Export,” Lu Fang and Jon Phillips, ArtMap, December 2008

2008                “Viewpoint,” Terri Cohn, Artweek, November 2008

2008                “Reconciling America:  Miraculous Encounters With The Mundane at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery,” Valerie Imus, Shotgun,

                        March 2, 2008

2008                “Charles Guice and JD Beltran,” Interview by Zefrey Throwell, Frank Prattle, February 2, 2008

2008                “Reconciling America:  Art Gets Personal,” Reyhan Harmanci, San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 21, 2008

2007                “Who’s On First?” The Wave Magazine, Volume 7, Issue 19, November 2007

2007                “San Jose Debuts Major Temporary Public Art Initiative,” Sys-Con Media, October 25, 2007

2007                “Digital Images Dominate – But With a Down Side,” Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle, June 23, 2007

2007                “Adding Cool Technology to the Ingenuity Fest,” Karen Sandstrom, The Plain Dealer, April 19, 2007

2007                “JD Beltran and Michael Arcega,” Interview by Zefrey Throwell, Frank Prattle, March 10, 2007

2007                “'Secrets Series' goes 4-wheelin," Susie Gerhard, SF360, February 6, 2007

2006                "ZeroOne/ISEA ////Entre nous," Susie Gerhard, SF360, August 9, 2006

2006                "ZeroOne Exhibits Get An Early Start," Jaweed Kallem, San Jose Mercury News, August 8, 2006

2006                "Attualita," Donato Ramani, D Magazine, July 2006

2006                "Ten Astonishing Reasons to Find Your Way to San Jose This Summer," Marketwire, June 22, 2006

2006                “San Jose, On the Bleeding Edge,” Janos Gereben, San Francisco Classical Voice, June 13, 2006

2005                “Artist Goes to Bat for Local Musicians,” Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, December 13, 2005 "Losing It," Christina Ducklow, SF Gate, Culture

2008                Blog, June 23, 2005

2004                “The Oxbow School,” Spark, KQED Television, first aired June 2004

2003                “Buzz Town,” Beth Lisick, SF Gate, July 9, 2003

2003                "Hooked on Classics:  New Tech Art is No Longer Just About Technology" Glen Helfand, San Francisco Chronicle, SF Gate, February 27, 2003

2003                "Id/Entity” Images,” Mark Mardon, Bay Area Reporter, February 13, 2003

2003                “Face Forward,” Alison Bing, SFGate, February, 2003

2003                "The Message is Medium-Small," Rebecca Schoenkopf, Orange County Weekly, January 17-23, 2003 "ID/Entity Challenges Portraiture Concepts,"

2008                Michael Rydzynski, Irvine World News, online edition, January 9, 2003

BOARDS, PANELS, AND JURIES

San Francisco Arts Commission, October 2009 to present

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,, Board of Directors, May 2007 to present

Murphy & Cadogan Award, Judge and Panelist, June 2007

Bay Area Art Alliance, Founding Member, January 2006 to 2007

San Francisco Camerawork, Board of Directors, April 2003 – December 2007

San Francisco Media Arts Council (SMAC), Board of Directors, July 2002 to 2006

San Francisco Writers’ Grotto, member, April 2002 to present

Murphy Cadoghan Award, juror, selection committee, May 2007

San Francisco Photo Alliance, panelist, “Are We All Photographers Now?”  May 2007

San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, Individual Artist Grant Panel, July 2005

San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, Board of Directors, Exhibition Committee Chair, Sept. 2000 - June 2003