Joan Belmar is an American artist (born 1970). He is a painter who uses a three dimensional technique using painting and collage processes with both painted and untreated Mylar/paper strips in circles and curvilinear shapes variations which then produced different and changes degrees of transparency, as light and the viewer move in relation to the work. He was a

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Mayor's Art Award Finalist in 2007 as an outstanding emerging artist. The DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities has also awarded him with an Artist Fellowship Program grant in 2009, and in 2011 he was awarded an Individual Artist Grant by the Arts and Humanities Council of

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. He is a two-time recipient of the Maryland Arts Council Individual Artist Grant in

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: Painting, in 2010and 2013.

Life and work

Belmar was born in Santiago, Chile, in December, 1970. He studied art at the Fundacion DUOC in Santiago, where he graduated with a degree in Graphic Design/Technical Drawing in 1993. A year later he left Chile and moved to

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. In Spain he changed his birth name (John) to the

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version (Joan). Belmar then moved to the

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in 1999, settling in Washington, D.C. In 2003, Belmar was granted permanent residency in the U.S. based on extraordinary artistic merit, and then became an

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in 2010. Belmar's artwork is part of private and public collections, including the

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's permanent collection and the official collection of Washington, DC. More recently, in 2016 he was awarded the First Place prize, from among 2240 received artworks, for Best Original Work in the Osten Biennial of Drawing in Macedonia. Belmar has written about his recent work: ''"In my ongoing series of 3D works, paintings and

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, I have become intrigued by maps, especially as I researched exterminated ethnic groups. In the maps, I encountered symbols, colors, drawings, grids, dots, and lines. Using these, I explore the psychological and cultural divisions that affect the different ways we see the world. The different qualities of the elements---the sometimes clash and contradictions of the materials---create a dialogue."'' In 2018 Belmar moved to New York, where he currently resides. He is represented by

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an
Addison Ripley Fine Art
in the Washington, DC area. Studioshot

Exhibitions and public collections

Solo shows

2019

. Joan Belmar
"Way Stations"

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2018
Beguiled by Caravaggio
', Adah Rose Gallery,

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2018 ''Tangling Shadows,'' Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center at Northern Virginia Community College’s Alexandria Campus, Virginia 2017
Cambalache. The Washington Post
', Addison Ripley Fine Art, Washington, DC 2017 ''Émigré Artists''
Charles Krause
Reporting Fine Arts, Washington, DC 2017 Joan Belmar, Skopje, Macedonia 2014 ''CHORDS'', Addison Ripley Fine Art, Washington, DC 2013 ''Trance-Lucid'', Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC 2012 ''Hidden Treasure'', Charles Krause Reporting Fine Arts, Washington, DC ''Time, Change, and Movement: The Art of Joan Belmar'',

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2011 ''ONCE'', Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC 2008 ''Life’s Many Layers'', H&F Fine Art, Mt. Rainier, MD 2007 ''Color Transparencies'', Nevin Kelly Gallery, Washington, DC 2002 ''Illegal Alien'', George Mason University,

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2001 ''Life'', Sae Gallery,

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2000 ''Asylum'', Alex Gallery, Washington, DC

Selected group shows

2017 ''Twist – Layer – Pour: Sondra N. Arkin, Joan Belmar, and Mary Early'',

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Art Museum, Washington, DC ''The Language of Impressions'', Ernst Community Cultural Center at NOVA Annandale, Annandale, VA ''Oh Say, Can You See?'', Charles Krause Reporting Fine Art, Washington, DC ''Homage to Mango Street'', Chautauqua Institution VACI, Chautauqua, NY 2016 '' The Looking Glass: Artist Immigrants of Washington'', American University Art Museum, Washington, DC ''What's the Big Idea?: Small Paintings from the Museum Collection'',

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Museum of Art, Bangor, ME 2015 ''Espaces de lumière'',

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''Espaces de lumière'', Vilnius Town Hall,

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Art Miami New York Art Fair, Adah Rose Gallery, Pier 94,

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2014 ''Without Boundaries'', School 33, Baltimore, MD
''Washington Color Abstraction''
The Gabarron Foundation, New York, NY ''Paper Please!'', Pentimenti Gallery,

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Art Market Hamptons, Pentimenti Gallery, Hamptons, NY ''INMERSION'', Fundacion Iturria, TTTR,

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2013 ''Le Temps de l’Eau'', Wichita Falls Museum of Art,

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, TX Dallas Art Fair, Adah Rose Gallery,

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2012 ''Le Temps De L’eau'', Musee de Tapisseries,

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''First Impressions'',

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, Baltimore MD 2011 ''Water: Take me to the River'', The Art Gallery at the

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2010 ''

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CATALYST'', American University Art Museum, Washington, DC ''Cultural Crossroads: Voices of Latin America and the Caribbean'', Gateway Art Center, Brentwood, MD 2009 ''Obama: Art & Politics'', H&F Fine Art, Mt. Rainier, MD 2008 ''DCCAH Fellowship Grant Exhibition'', American University Museum, Washington, DC ''The Story of Creation II, United Creators'', New York,

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and

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2007 ''XVIII Ibero-American Art Salon'', Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington, DC 2006 ''Heart of DC'', City Hall Permanent Art Collection, The John Wilson Building, Washington, DC ''Group Exhibition'', Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY ''Mother'', Anne C. Fisher Gallery, Washington, DC

Public collections

University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor. ME Fidelity Investment Art Collection,

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The John Wilson Building, City Hall Art Collection. Washington, DC

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. Art Collection.

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Stevenson University, Stevenson, MD US Embassy in

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Capital One Art Collection. McLean, VA THE ARTERY CAPITAL GROUP,

Exelon Corporation, Baltimore, MD
Osten Art Collection

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Hogan Lovells Art Collection. Tyson, VA

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Belmar, Joan Living people 1970 births American male painters Artists from Santiago Chilean emigrants to the United States 21st-century American painters Painters from Washington, D.C. Painters from New York (state)