Belinda Chlouber

As an artist I try to make sense of life through a visual means—

Over the last ten years, my work has considered our relationship to other animals and the earth, exploring ideas such as communication, compassion, beauty and sustainability. I have also explored through my artwork my own hearing loss through my research with sound. The fragility of life and its ever-changing nature, both beautiful and tragic, sometimes ugly, compel me as an artist to explore this duality.

After receiving cochlear implants last year, for my rather severe hearing loss, as part of my therapy I started listening to books. One of the first books I just by chance listened to was Naomi Klein’s book “This Changes Everything, Capitalism vs. the Climate”. This book was the catalyst to start working on a series of artworks about how society changes and how we can cope with such a dramatic systemic problem as climate change. With our ability to communicate so rapidly we have set in place the ability to transform our behaviors and attitudes in a way never before possible.

One series I worked on was what I consider a “backward collaboration in time” with the writings, poetry and short stories, that were left by my mother, Carla Sweet Chlouber and her fat...

Parsons School of Design, MFA painting program one semester of studio work, New York, NY

Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri BFA – graduated with honors

Queens College summer Landscape painting at Caumsett, New York

Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, Maryland—mobility program

Minneapolis College of Art and Design, summer school, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Selected Solo and collaborative Exhibitions

2014 Willard Arts Center’s Carr Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Words and Paint: A Collaboration with Family Writing, Idaho Falls, Idaho

2014 Oklahoma State University Museum of Art,Solo Exhibition, Words and Paint: A Collaboration with Family Writing, Stillwater, OK

2012 Subterranean Arthouse, Solo Exhibition, , Berkeley, CA

2011 Altered, collaborative three-person show, The Main Gallery, Redwood City, CA

2010 Living with Art, collaborative six person show, The Main Gallery, Redwood City, CA

2006 Mundi, collaborative two-person show, The Main Gallery, Redwood City, CA

2005 The Main Gallery, Redwood City, CA, solo show

2005 Crockett Contemporary Art, Crockett, CA, two-person show

2002 Atelier 31 Gallery, two-person show, Kirkland, WA

2000 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, three-person show, San Francisco, CA

1988 Introductions 1988; S.F. Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, California

1987 Chlouber/Donovan; InterArt Gallery, two-person show, San Francisco, CA

1984 Gardiner Art Gallery, Solo exhibition, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK

Selected Group Exhibitions

2014 Sandra Lee Gallery, Triennial Rea...