Julio Figueroa-Beltrán (b. 1984, Havana, Cuba) is a contemporary visual artist whose paintings explore the psychological terrain where dream states merge with the visual culture of modern life. Trained at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro (1999–2003) and the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA, 2004–2007), he has lived and worked in Miami since completing his studies. At the heart of Figueroa-Beltrán’s practice lies an inquiry into the unstable boundaries between waking reality and subconscious experience. His paintings function as visual thresholds, spaces where memory, archetype, and metaphor collide. Guided more by intuition than logic, his compositions draw from surrealist traditions while remaining grounded in contemporary imagery, yielding works that are rich in symbolic weight and emotional ambiguity. Each painting offers a meditative journey through fragmented landscapes of the mind, where time dissolves and causality is suspended. Figures and motifs emerge and recede in a rhythm that resists narrative closure, inviting the viewer into a world that is at once deeply personal and universally resonant. Figueroa-Beltrán’s work has been presented in diverse solo and group exhibitions across multiple cultural contexts, and is held in distinguished institutional and private collections. These milestones underscore an expanding international presence and position his practice as an increasingly significant contribution to contemporary art discourse.