Dina Belaia, BFA, Associate FCA member
dina@belaia.com • www.belaia.com
ARTIST’s BIOGRAPHY
Dina started her visual art training at an early age while living in the former USSR. As a teenager she joined the Analytical Art Studio, and still follows this school and artistic method for 30 years. In Canada, she continued her studies and graduated in Visual Arts from York University. She works as an illustrator and graphic designer and even a face/body painter and a muralist, as well as a fine artist. Dina is a practicing artist who has exhibited locally, nationally and internationally, where her works received numerous merit awards and prizes. She is an Associate member of the national Federation of Canadian Artists and its Toronto chapter.
Selected Juried Art Shows:
- Spring Kaleidoscope, Federation of Canadian Artists, Beaux Pazan Art Gallery, Mississauga, 2024
- Annual Art Show, Central Connection art group, Toronto, 2015 – 19, 2022 – 24
- New Signature Members Show, Federation of Canadian Artists, Federation Gallery, Vancouver, 2023
- Perfect 10, Collective 131 Gallery, Holt Renfrew Centre, Toronto, 2023
- 2023 Active Members Show,Federation of Canadian Artists, Federation Gallery, Vancouver, 2023
- Sunnybrook Hospital Art Show, Toronto, 2022, 23
- Harvest Times, Federation of Canadian Artists, Beaux Arts Gallery, Brampton, 2022
- Summer Pleasures, Federation of Canadian Artists, Etobicoke City Centre, 2022
- The Marketer Art Competition 2021, Special Merit Award, 2022
- Joy of Summer; Faded but Beautiful; She Is art shows,Art of Emotions Gallery, Toronto, 2021-22
- Spring Thaw, Federation of Canadian Artists, Honorable Mention, Art of Emotions Gallery, Toronto, 2022
- Show-Up Show, Federation of Canadian Artists, Honorable Mention, Art of Emotions Gallery, Toronto, 2021
- Small,Federation of Canadian Artists, Federation Gallery, Vancouver, 2021
- Open National Juried Exhibition, Federation of Canadian Artists, Honorable Mention, 2020
- Life on the Line,Mental Health Awareness Campaign by Twenty-Twenty Art Gallery, 2020;
posters with artwork exhibited in Toronto subway cars - Outside the Box, City of Toronto, traffic light and utility box murals, 2020-2023
- Art as a Response to Mental Health,Doncaster Art Fair, UK, 2020, 2022
- 20×20 Art Exhibition,Christine X Art Gallery, Sliema, Malta, 2020
- Art Olympia Open Competition, Tokyo, Japan, Honorable Mention, 2019
- Dina Belaia — Solo Show (34 pieces), Cedar Ridge Gallery, Toronto, 2018
- We-Art-Canada Show, Art Square Gallery, Toronto, 2017
- You Have to Take Stairs, Zebra Public Art Mgmt., 2017
- Drawing, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, 2017
- Snowflakes Show, Yellow House Gallery, Toronto, 2016, 2017, 2018
- Shades of Ability, Commerce Court, 2016; Toronto Botanical Gardens, 2017 (Winner — Best Oil, Best Drawing)
- Disrupting/Undoing, OCAD University, Open Gallery, 2013
ARTISTIC STATEMENT
Dina’s drawings and paintings follow the school of Analytical Abstractionism (see www.analytical-art.com).
It employs a process of non-programmed creating forms from particular to whole, analysing the appearing image rather than synthesizing it. Try to understand not what, but how it is done.
Be interested not in the face of the clock, but in the inner mechanism to understand progression of time.
