Andrea Belag (b.1951) lives and works in New York City and Far Rockaway, Queens. She attended Boston University, Bard College, and The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture. Belag’s paintings and works on paper have been widely exhibited and collected throughout the US and internationally, including Public Collections in the United States Embassy in Saudi Arabia, MTA Arts & Design Permanent Collection, Avenue U Station in Brooklyn, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Jewish Museum in New York, Newark Museum in New Jersey, New Jersey State Museum in Trenton, New Jersey, Mead Museum at Amherst College in Amherst Massachusetts, and Sprengel Museum in Hanover, Germany. Honors and Awards include the MTA Arts & Design Commission (2015-2017), the Rockefeller Foundation Residency at the Bellagio Study Center, Italy (2003), the Yaddo Fellowship (2002, 2001, 1994), the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (1999), the Blue Mountain Center, Residency (1993), the National Endowment for the Arts, an Individual Fellowship (1987), the New Jersey Council for the Arts, an Individual Fellowship (1984). Recent selected Solo Exhibitions include Inheritance, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY (2019), Beachcomber, Philip Slein, St. Louis, MO (2018), Ghost Writer, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York, NY (2017), SML: Recent Paintings, DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY (2014), New Paintings, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY (2007), Vienna Blue, Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art, PA (2007), Paintings, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY (2003), Recent Gouaches, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY (2002), New Paintings, Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Cologne, Germany (2002), Recent Paintings, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York (2000), Paintings, Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Cologne, Germany (2000). Recent selected Group Exhibitions include Notebook, curated by Joanne Greenbaum, Henry Gallery, New York, NY (2019), 20×16 Biennial, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY (2019), Painters Prints, VanDeb Editions, Kent State University at Stark, North Canton, OH (2019), Marking Time, Mark Borghi Gallery, New York, NY (2018), Marking Time, Mark Borghi Gallery, New York, NY (2017), Parting Together, Greenpoint Hill Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2017), American Abstract, Ille Arts, Amagansett, NY (2017), Translucency, Valerie McKenzie Gallery, New York, NY (2017), “New Work, New York”, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY (2017), ONLY Small Paintings, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY (2017), Post Election, September Gallery, Hudson, NY (2017), Pussy Power, David & Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY (2016), Outside In, SHFAP, New York, NY (2016), Minerva, Cuevas Tillard, New York, NY, 5 Painters/ 5 Paintings, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY (2016), Color, Shape & Form, Gris Gallery, Hudson, NY (2016), Paintheads, curated by Charles Marburg, Jeffrey Leder Gallery, LIC, NY (2016).