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Joan BelmarJoan Belmar is an American artist (born 1970[1][2]). 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.[2] He was a Washington, DC 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 Montgomery County, MD.[3] He is a two-time recipient of the Maryland Arts Council Individual Artist Grant in Visual Arts: Painting, in 2010[4][3]and 2013.[4][3]
Life and workBelmar was born in Santiago, Chile, in December, 1970.[2] He studied art at the Fundacion DUOC in Santiago, where he graduated with a degree in Graphic Design/Technical Drawing in 1993.[5] A year later he left Chile and moved to Spain. In Spain he changed his birth name (John) to the Catalan version (Joan).[1] Belmar then moved to the United States in 1999,[1] 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 American citizen in 2010.[1] Belmar's artwork is part of private and public collections, including the University of Maine Museum of Art'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.[3] Belmar has written about his recent work: "In my ongoing series of 3D works, paintings and drawings, 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."[6] In 2018 Belmar moved to Poughkeepsie, New York, where he currently resides. He is represented by Adah Rose Gallery and Addison Ripley Fine Art in the Washington, DC area.
 Exhibitions and public collectionsSolo shows2019 University of Maine Museum of Art. Joan Belmar: "Way Stations". Bangor, ME 2018 Beguiled by Caravaggio, Adah Rose Gallery, Chevy Chase, MD[7] 2018 Tangling Shadows, Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center at Northern Virginia Community College’s Alexandria Campus, Virginia[8] 2017 Cambalache. The Washington Post, Addison Ripley Fine Art, Washington, DC[9][10][11] 2017 Émigré Artists, Charles Krause Reporting Fine Arts, Washington, DC[12] 2017 Joan Belmar, Skopje, Macedonia 2014 CHORDS, Addison Ripley Fine Art, Washington, DC[13] 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, Capital One, McLean, VA 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, Fairfax, VA 2001 Life, Sae Gallery, Seoul, South Korea 2000 Asylum, Alex Gallery, Washington, DC Selected group shows2017 Twist – Layer – Pour: Sondra N. Arkin, Joan Belmar, and Mary Early, American University Art Museum, Washington, DC The Language of Impressions, Ernst Community Cultural Center at NOVA Annandale, Annandale, VA[14] 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[15] What's the Big Idea?: Small Paintings from the Museum Collection, University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME 2015 Espaces de lumière, UNESCO, Paris, France Espaces de lumière, Vilnius Town Hall, Vilnius, Lithuania Art Miami New York Art Fair, Adah Rose Gallery, Pier 94, New York, NY 2014 Without Boundaries, School 33, Baltimore, MD Washington Color Abstraction, The Gabarron Foundation, New York, NY Paper Please!, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Art Market Hamptons, Pentimenti Gallery, Hamptons, NY INMERSION, Fundacion Iturria, TTTR, Montevideo, Uruguay 2013 Le Temps de l’Eau, Wichita Falls Museum of Art, Wichita Falls, TX Dallas Art Fair, Adah Rose Gallery, Dallas, TX Bethesda Painting Award, Finalists Exhibition, Bethesda, MD 2012 Le Temps De L’eau, Musee de Tapisseries, Aix-en-Provence, France First Impressions, Stevenson University, Baltimore MD 2011 Water: Take me to the River, The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD 2010 WPA 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, Munich, Frankfurt and Istanbul 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 collectionsUniversity of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME[16] Fidelity Investment Art Collection, Boston, MA The John A. Wilson Building, City Hall Art Collection. Washington, DC Microsoft Corporation Art Collection, Redmond, WA Stevenson University, Stevenson, MD US Embassy Manila, The Philippines Capital One Art Collection, McLean, VA THE ARTERY CAPITAL GROUP, Chevy Chase, MD Exelon Corporation, Baltimore, MD Osten Art Collection. North Macedonia Hogan Lovells Art Collection, Tysons, VA US Embassy, Guatemala City, Guatemala (Chief of Mission residence) References
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