Julieta Beltrán Lazo

Julieta Beltrán Lazo (she/her) is an artist working between Guadalajara and Chicago. She received a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the Rhode Island School of Design (2020), and completed her MFA in PTDW at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2025). Beltrán was the recipient of the Higher Education Scholarship from the Jumex Art Foundation (2023-25). Her work has been exhibited in Mexico, Peru, the United States, and Europe.

Using memory and somatic expressions as entry points, Beltrán's artistic practice explores the psychology of embodiment, untangling the tensions between the body’s physicality and the social constructs that attempt to affix it to a hegemonic standard. Working primarily in painting but incorporating writing, fibers, and performance, Beltrán’s material exploration seeks the points of tension between desire and discomfort, creating layers or “second skins” that simultaneously protect and efface the figure, allowing the artist's subconscious to emerge.