EventsThe New Social Environment#1331

Claudia Bitrán: Titanic, A Deep Emotion

Featuring Bitrán and Gaby Collins-Fernandez

Tuesday, March 17, 2026 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Artist Claudia Bitrán joins Rail contributor Gaby Collins-Fernandez for a conversation on Zoom. 

In this Talk

Visit Titanic, A Deep Emotion on view at Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York through March 28, 2026 →

Claudia Bitrán

A photo of Claudia Bitrán on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

Photo by Sebastián Utreras

Claudia Bitrán (b. 1986, US–Chile) is a painter, video artist, and educator whose work bridges painting, performance, and moving image. She reconstructs mass media and celebrity culture by hand, foregrounding labor and emotional nuance. Her decade-long, shot-for-shot remake of Titanic exemplifies her DIY aesthetic and investment in repetition, spectacle, and community engagement. Projects centered on Britney Spears, as well as her Viral Epic Fails and White Shoes series, further reframe pop imagery through empathy and critique. She holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, teaches at Pratt Institute and Lehman College, and is a Guggenheim Fellow. She lives and works in Brooklyn.

Gaby Collins-Fernandez

A photo of Gaby Collins-Fernandez on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Photo by Michael Marcelle
Gaby Collins-Fernandez is an artist living and working in New York City. She holds degrees from Dartmouth College (BA) and the Yale School of Art (MFA, Painting/Printmaking). Her work has been shown in the US and internationally, including at Peter Freeman, Inc., the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama and El Museo del Barrio, NY. Her work has been discussed in publications such as the Brooklyn Rail and artcritical, and on the video interview series, Gorky’s Granddaughter. She is a recipient of residencies at Yaddo (Saratoga Springs, NY), The Marble House Project (Dorset, VT), and a 2013 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Art Award. She is a founder and publisher of the annual magazine Precog, and a co-director of the artist-run art and music initiative BombPop!Up.

We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨

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