{{Short description|American artist and performer (b. 1973)}} {{Use American English|date=October 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2025}} {{Infobox artist | name = Brian Belott | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1973}} | birth_place = East Orange, New Jersey, US | nationality = <!-- use only when necessary per WP:INFONAT --> | education = {{unbulleted list|The Cooper Union|The School of Visual Arts}} }} '''Brian Belott''' (born 1973 in East Orange, New Jersey) is an artist, performer and found object art collector based in New York City.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Smith |first1=Roberta |title=Brian Belott: 'Draw Gym' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/27/arts/design/brian-belott-draw-gym.html |website=The New York Times |date=26 September 2013}}</ref>
Belott attended Oratory Preparatory School and was recognized for his art as a student there.<ref>Misseck, Robert E. [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-star-ledger-union-county-new-jersey/182141335/ "Union freeholder room to serve as 'gallery' for teen artists' works"], ''The Star-Ledger'', June 13, 1990. Accessed October 1, 2025, via Newspapers.com. "The artists whose works are on display are Kamelia Basir, 14, of the Park Middle School in Scotch Plains; Brian Belott, 16, of Oratory Prep, Summit...."</ref> He received his BFA from The School of Visual Arts in New York in 1995 after one year attending Cooper Union, before being thrown out.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jurek |first1=Irena |title=An Interview with Brian Belott: Frustrating Expectations |url=http://artfcity.com/2017/06/27/an-interview-with-brian-belott-frustrating-expectations/ |website=Art F City |date=27 June 2017}}</ref>
Brian Belott's work has been exhibited at Canada Gallery,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.canadanewyork.com/artist/brian_belott/ |title=CANADA : Brian Belott : Artist Page |accessdate=2009-01-04 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090127053651/http://www.canadanewyork.com/artist/brian_belott/ |archivedate=2009-01-27 }}</ref> the Zürcher Studio,<ref>{{cite journal|last=Goodman|first=Jonathan |title=Brian Belott: A Goosh Noosh|journal=The Brooklyn Rail|date=November 2012|url=http://brooklynrail.org/2012/11/artseen/brian-belott-the-joy-of-file}}</ref> the Museum of Modern Art<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A33386&page_number=1&template_id=6&sort_order=1|title=MoMA|work=MoMA.org}}</ref> 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 some of 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.<ref>"http://www.artcritical.com/2019/01/09/wallace-whitney-on-brian-belott/" Retrieved February 23, 2019.</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://whitney.org/exhibitions/2019-Biennial|title=Whitney Biennial 2019|website=whitney.org|language=en}}</ref>
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== External links == *https://www.loyalgallery.com/artists/brian-belott/ *https://gavinbrown.biz/artists/brian_belott/works {{Authority control}}
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