J. D. Beltran is chair of SFAI’s Post-Baccalaureate Program and teaches in the Critical Studies and Urban Studies programs in SFAI’s School of Interdisciplinary Studies as well as in the New Genres and Film departments in SFAI’s School of Studio Practice. She holds an MFA from SFAI and a JD from UC Berkeley. She is a conceptual artist, filmmaker, and writer exploring the contexts, language, and scope of portraying a subject and then mirroring it back. She received a 1999 Artadia award and was an artist-in-residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, SFMOMA, the Kitchen Gallery in New York City, the Singapore Digital Mediafest, the Biennale for Electronic Arts in Perth, the 2006 and 2008 ZeroOne San Jose New Media Biennials, and Bay Area Now 2 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. In 2009, her public art project for the city of San Jose was recognized as one of the best public artworks in the country by Public Art Network. She writes a column, “Art and Culture Fix,” for the online version of the San Francisco Chronicle. Beltran lives and works in San Francisco.