
lives and works at Durham, NC, United States
Beatriz E. Balanta (PhD, Duke University) is a writer and cultural producer based in Cali, Colombia. Balanta is interested in the intersection of visual culture, politics, and identity. She has published articles about orgasm and psychoanalysis, political speech, racism and classism in academia, and photography and the construction of Black identity. Balanta is the executive director and founder of BlackGround Creative Studios, a cultural production company based in Cali, focused on contemporary art of the African diaspora.
Balanta participated in ‘Cosmovisions on Land and Entangled Futures’ em 2023.