JD Beltran

JD Beltran is an artist, filmmaker, and writer/journalist whose award-winning work, executed in a multiplicity of mediums, has been screened and exhibited internationally including at the Walker Art Center, the SFMOMA, the Getty Institute, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the MIT Media Lab, and the Kitchen NYC. She has been commissioned for public art projects worldwide, including in San Francisco, St. Petersburg, Russia, and Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. In 2009, she received the Public Art Network award for one of the most outstanding public artworks in the United States. She's achieved grants from Artadia, the San Francisco Arts Commission, Stochastic Labs, ARS Electronica, and a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Fellowship, and residencies at Skowhegan, the Pilchuck School, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Stochastic Labs, and the Lucas Artists Residency at Montalvo Arts Center. Beltran founded the non-profit Center for Creative Sustainability, which cultivates and implements groundbreaking creative collaborations, projects, initiatives, and legislation towards sustainability in the arts, the environment, and our society.