ADAM BELT

BIOGRAPHY 1997 B.F.A., University of San Diego, San Diego, CA 2001 M.F.A., Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA PROFESSIONAL AND VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE 2005-present Adjunct Professor, Mira Costa College, Oceanside, CA Drawing and Composition 2005-04 Adjunct Professor, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL Studio Experience Painting and Two-Dimensional Design Adjunct Professor, Harold Washington City College, Chicago, IL Fundamentals of Oil Painting 2004-02 Adjunct Professor, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA Painting (beginning, intermediate and advanced) and Beginning Drawing 2004-03 Adjunct Professor, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA Two-Dimensional Design, Beginning Drawing and Figure Drawing 2002 Adjunct Professor, Cerritos Community College, Norwalk, CA Freehand Drawing 2002-01 Instructor, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA Children Investigate the Environment, Walk to Art, New Visions and Studio Art After School Program 2001 Graduate Assistantship, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA Installation Art Class under instructor Michael Rathbun, assisted in the installation and fabrication of instructor and student art work. FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 2011 San Diego Art Prize, Emerging Artist (chosen by Jay Johnson) 2001 Claremont Graduate University President’s Award, Claremont, CA 2000-01 Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA 1999-00 Howard P. Mills and Winifred Vandorn Mills Fellowship, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2013 LONGVIEW, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA 2012 THROUGH THE RABBIT HOLE, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY 2008 CONVERGENCE, The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA 2007 CONDENSATION, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA

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2004 GLINT, Greenleaf Gallery, Whittier College, Whittier, CA 2002 STASIS, Wignall Museum/Gallery, Alta Loma, CA (catalogue) 2001 VOLUMNE, White Room Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA FLOE, Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2017-2018 LIGHT, Kaneko, Omaha, NE 2017 TEXTURE/PATTERN, Quint Gallery, San Diego, CA WONDERSPACES, Pop-Up Exhibition, San Diego, CA SO MOVED: THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MOTION, Fleet Science Center, San Diego, CA 2016 SPECTRUM, Peters Projects, Santa Fe, NM; in association with The New Mexico

Spatiotemporal Modeling Center (STMC) and Los Alamos National Laboratories 2015 RAINMAKER, San Diego Central Public Library, San Diego, CA 2014 STATE OF THE ART: DISCOVERING AMERICAN ART NOW, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AK 2013 MIAMI PROJECT, with Quint Contemporary Art, Miami, FL INVISIBLE REALMS: ENCOUNTERING THE SACRED, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA 2012 ART LOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY, with Quint Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA MIAMI PROJECT, with Quint Contemporary Art, Miami, FL 2011 SAN DIEGO ART PRIZE RECIPIENTS: JAY JOHNSON, ADAM BELT, RUBEN ORTIZ-TORRES, TRISTAN SHONE, Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA ART LOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY, with Quint Contemporary Art 2011 ART PLATFORM | LOS ANGELES, with Quint Contemporary Art ART SAN DIEGO 2011, with San Diego Visual Art Network for the San Diego Art Prize 2010 HERE NOT THERE: SAN DIEGO ART NOW, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA 2009 QUINT: THREE DECADES OF CONTEMPORARY ART, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA HOMING IN: AN EXHIBITION OF 50 SAN DIEGO ARTISTS, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA SEVENTH BIENNIAL ARTISTS' BOOKS JURIED EXHIBITION, The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA 2006 FROM THE VAULTS: RECENT ACQUISITIONS, Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA 2004 H20, Sam Francis Gallery, Crossroads School, Santa Monica, CA 2003 MOISTURE II, Mojave Desert, CA 2002 MOISTURE, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Desert Research Station, Hinkley, CA TAKEN FROM THE SEA, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA INSTALLATION ART IN VETERANS PARK, LA Mission College, Sylmar, CA TRACES, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA 2000 STUFFED, Progress Space, Pomona, CA ALTARS AND INSTALLATIONS, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA INLAND SPECIFIC, Wignall Museum/Gallery, Alta Loma, CA (catalogue) NEW PAINTINGS, Progress Space, Pomona, CA GROUP PAINTING EXHIBITION, DC Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA VISITING ARTIST LECTURES 2004 GLINT, Whittier College, Whittier, CA H20, Crossroads School, Santa Monica, CA Statis, Chaffey College, Alta Loma, CA (catalogue)

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Inland Specific, Exhibition Catalogue, Wignall Museum/Gallery, Alta Loma, CA BIBLIOGRAPHY 2014 Morlan, Kinsee. “Adam Belt Returns to his Roots as a Landscape Painter,” San Diego City Beat, December 17, 2014. 2013 Chute, James. “Adam Belt’s Natural Inclinations,” San Diego Union Tribune, September 4, 2013. 2007 Lewinson, David. “Minimal Man: A North County nature boy takes a decidedly low-key

approach to the majestic,” Riviera: San Diego, July 2007, pp. 60-62. 2004 Belt, Adam. “The Yearning Bush,” Leonardo, Vol. 37, No. 5. Dambrot, Shana Nys. “H20 at the Sam Francis Gallery,” ArtWeek, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 20-21. 2003 Frank, Peter. "Adam Belt: stasis and meta-stasis”, Stasis exhibition catalogue. 2000 Leuer, Jennifer. "A new twist to an ancient ritual," Orange County Spotlight on the Arts, Huntington Beach Art Center. PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, CA