Belt

Adam Belt lives and works in San Diego, California where he explores installation art, sculpture as well as continue to engage in painting.  He created a variety of installations based on natural phenomena involving time as a key element in the work.
“My artistic practice is a religious vocation resulting in works and projects that are a contemplation of physical and phenomenological aspects of our world, the cosmos, God, and religion.”

SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2019 (MAY) Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2019 (JAN) WHICH WAY IS WEST, RCM Galerie, Paris, France
2013 LONGVIEW, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
2012 THROUGH THE RABBIT HOLE, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York City, NY
2008 CONVERGENCE, Atheneum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, CA
2007 CONDENSATION, Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2004 GLINT, Greenleaf Gallery, Whittier College, Whittier, CA
2002 STASIS, Wignall Museum/Gallery, Alta Loma, CA (catalog)
2001 VOLUME, White Room Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
2001 FLOE, Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 (MAR) WONDERSPACES, (a traveling exhibition) Scottsdale, AZ 
2019 (JUN) William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA
2019 WONDERSPACES, (a traveling exhibition) Miami, FL
2018 DISTANT LIGHT, Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2018 A METHOD FOR REACHING EXTREME ALTITUDES, Central Library Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
2018 BEYOND THE AGE OF REASON, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
2017-2018 LIGHT, The Kaneko, Omaha, NE
2017 TEXTURE/PATTERN, Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2017 WONDERSPACES, (a traveling exhibition) San Diego, CA
2017 SO MOVED: THE ART OF SCIENCE AND MOTION, Fleet Science Center, San Diego, CA
2016 HOLDINGS: Selections from MCASD’s Collection, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
2016 FELICITA, A Ship in the Woods, Escondido, CA
2016 SPECTRUM, Peters Projects, Santa Fe, NM
2015 RAINMAKER, Central Library Art Gallery, San Diego, CA 
2014 ADAM BELT AND JAY JOHNSON, Lux Art Center, Encinitas, CA
2012 THE VERY LARGE ARRAY: SAN DIEGO/TIJUANA ARTISTS IN THE MCA COLLECTION, Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
2012 WORKS ON WATER, Marin Community Foundation, Novato, CA
2012 DISSECTING NATURE, Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2012 SAN DIEGO ART PRIZE RECIPIENTS: JAY JOHNSON, ADAM BELT, TRISTAN SHONE, Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, CA
2011 FIGHT OR FLIGHT, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York City, NY
2011 NEW OUT WEST-PETER ALEXANDER, MARY CORSE, ROBERT IRWIN, Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2011 INFLUENTIAL ELEMENT: EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF WATER, Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
2010 HERE NOT THERE: SAN DIEGO ART NOW, Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
2009 LOOKING OUT, LOOKING IN, The Kruglak Gallery MiraCosta College, Oceanside, CA
2009 MOVING POINTS: CONTEMPORARY DRAWINGS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA
2009 QUINT: THREE DECADES OF CONTEMPORARY ART, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
2009 HOMING IN: AN EXHIBITION OF 50 SAN DIEGO ARTISTS, Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2009 7TH BIENNIAL ARTISTS’ BOOK JURIED EXHIBITION, Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, CA
2009 THE 2009 JURIED BIENNIAL EXHIBITION, William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA
2008 INLANDIA, Wignall Museum/Gallery, Alta Loma, CA
2006 FROM THE VAULTS: RECENT ACQUISITIONS, Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
2003 MOISTURE II, Mojave Desert, CA
2002 MOISTURE, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Desert Research Station, Hinkley, CA

PUBLIC ART COLLECTIONS /COMMISSIONS
2018 SOJOURNER, Tidelands Activation Program, The Port of San Diego, San Diego, CA 
2006 MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO, La Jolla, CA

PUBLICATIONS
2009 ROBERT PINCUS, “IT STARTS WITH A GOOD EYE”, San Diego Union Tribune, September 2009.
2009 ROBERT PINCUS, “LOCAL COLOR 50 ARTISTS”, San Diego Union Tribune, June 2009.
2007 ROBERT PINCUS, “CONDENSATION: SUBURBAN MAKE AN IMPRESSION”, San Diego Union Tribune, August 2007.
2004 DAVID LEWINSON, “THE RADAR: ART”, Riviera, JULY 2007.
2004 ADAM BELT, “THE YEARNING BUSH”, LEONARDO VOL. 37 NO. 5. 2004. MIT Press Journals
2003 SHANA NYS DAMBROT, “H20 AT THE SAM FRANCIS GALLERY”, Artweek vol. 35 no. 3, 2004, 20-21.
2000 PETER FRANK, “ADAM BELT: STASIS AND META-STASIS”, Stasis exhibition catalog, 2003.
2000 JENNIFER LEUER, “A NEW TWIST TO AN ANCIENT RITUAL”, Orange County Spotlight on the Arts, 2000. Huntington Beach Art Center