Brian Belott

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Brian Belott
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Brian Belott (born 1973 in East Orange, New Jersey) is an artist, performer and found object art collector based in New York City. [1]

Belott received his BFA from The School of Visual Arts in New York in 1995 after 1 year attending Cooper Union (thrown out). [2]

Brian Belott's work has been exhibited at Canada Gallery, [3] the Zürcher Studio, [4] the Museum of Modern Art [5] in New York, Performa 17, and Galerie Zürcher in Paris, France in 2009.

Brian Belott's first book, Wipe That Clock Off Your Face (2007, PictureBox) includes a selection of his practices, including comic drawings, painting, collage, collage books, and a DVD with found sound and photography.

In November 2018, Gavin Brown's Enterprise opened a solo exhibition featuring Brian Belott's never-before-exhibited frozen art works. The works, some of which included toothpaste, dog food and Play-doh, were exhibited throughout the gallery using industrial freezers. [6]

One of 75 artists selected, Belott will participate in the 2019 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, curated by Rujeko Hockley and Jane Panetta. [7]

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