Sam Belinfante (born 1983) is an artist living and working in London.
Since graduating from University of Leeds (BA) and the Slade School of Fine Art (MA), Belinfante has performed and exhibited internationally - including group shows in Stoltzestrasse 11, Frankfurt; REMAP, Athens; BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead and Tate Britain, London.
Recently Belinfante has been combining his performance and video works in a series of live events at leading art centres, including Milton Keynes Gallery, ICA, London and Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge. Belinfante has also been working closely with Bruce Mclean on a major new opera where world-class improvisation is combined with choreographed objects, video and movement. He is currently developing a new body of work from video fragments captured whilst on a recent Anna Mahler Fellowship in Spoleto, Italy, September 2010.
Belinfante has also initiated a series of curatorial projects that operate as an extension to his studio practice and consist of a mixture of performance, choreography and collaboration. Projects have included Notations and The Voice and Nothing More in collaboration with Neil Luck at the Slade Research Centre, London, LOOPs at Chelsea Space, London and The Scuttler, with boyleANDshaw at ICA, London.
Since 2008 Belinfante has been working on a series of performances and events devised in collaboration with Hayward Touring for Every Day is a Good Day, a major retrospective of the visual artwork of John Cage.
Education
2011 - 2015
2006 - 2008
2002 - 2006
2001 - 2002
University of Leeds PhD Candidate, Fine Art
Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, MA Fine Art
University of Leeds BA Fine Art
Gloucestershire College of Art & Design, Foundation Studies in Art & Design
Solo Shows
2011
2011
2010
A Bocca Chiusa, Concrete at Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Penumbra, mima, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK
Sam Belinfante: Three Works, Southard Reid, London, UK
Selected Group Shows
2011
2010
2010
2009
2009
2009
2008
2008
2008
2008
2007
A Cut a Scratch and a Score..., with Bruce Mclean, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, UK
Henji (Trace), Sanhe Museum, Hangzhou, CN
Cage Mix: Sculpture and Sound, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
Notes on a Return, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Giatrokou 28..., REMAP 2, parallel to the 2nd Athens Biennale, Athens, GR
Interplay, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Suffolk, UK
Fair Play by Foul Means, Sycharth Gallery, Glyndwr University, Wrexham, UK
Illumination, Interval at the Servicepoint Building, Manchester, UK
Postgraduate Printmaking in London, Clifford Chance, London, UK
Shot/Countershot, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK
Taenu (Trace), tactileBOSCH, Cardiff, Cardiff, UK
Trace, Stoltzestrasse 11, Frankfurt, DE
Selected Performances and Screenings
2011
2010
2010
2010
2010
2010
2009
2009
2009
2008
2008
2008
2007
2007
‘Stimmung’, Restless Times, Late at Tate, Tate Britain, London UK (September 2011)
‘The Gorge, The Plain, The Mountain’, Point of Conversation, 918 Bathurst, Toronto, CA
‘The Taos Hum’, Be Glad for the Song Has No End, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK
‘Penumbra’, The Scuttler, Live Weekends, ICA, London, UK
‘Aria’, with Linda Hirst and BlahBlahBlah, BALTIC Gallery, Gateshead, UK
‘Penumbra’, Scratch Nights, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
‘A Hot Potato on a Dark Background’, with Bruce Mclean, TESTBED1, London, UK
‘A Christmas Gift for You’, Rob Pruitt’s Flea Market, Tate Modern Live, Tate Modern, London, UK
‘Penumbra’, Process New Music and Arts Festival, Vilnius, LT
The View from Here, Radio Drama, BBC World Service, International Broadcast
‘Rhizome’ with Neil Luck and EXAUDI, BIG DRAW National Launch, Wellcome Trust, London, UK
‘Tube Lines’, Brilliant Noise, Late at Tate, Tate Britain, London. UK
‘Arco’, Sonic Arts EXPO, The Basement, Brighton, UK
‘Round’, (re)stage, Garage Theatre, University College London, UK
‘Rhizome’, with Neil Luck, Image/Music/Text/Turtle, Slade Research Centre, London, UK
Public Collections
Manchester Metropolitan University Special Collections, Tate Special Collections
UCL Special Collections, University of Leeds Special Collections
V&A Collection, York College Artists’ Book Collection
Awards and Residencies
2011
2010
2009
2008 - 2009
2008
2007. 2008
Dazed and Confused Emerging Artist Award, (Longlist), London, UK
Anna Mahler Fellowship, Spoleto, IT
Artist in residence, Process New Music and Arts Festival, Vilnius, LT
Honorary Research Assistant in Sound, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, UK
Dolbey Travel Scholarship, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, UK
Slade Project Award(s), Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, UK
Curated Projects
2010 - 2011
2010
2010
2010
2010
2010
2009
2009
2009
2008
Curator (Public Programs), John Cage: Everyday is a Good Day, Hayward Gallery Touring Show;
BALTIC, Gateshead; Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield;
Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea and Hayward Project Space, London, UK
Founding Editor, Turn Press, Publishers of Artists’ Books, London, UK
Curator, with boyleANDshaw, The Scuttler, for Live Weekends, ICA, London, UK
Curator, ‘Loops’, Shall I Stay or Shall I Go?, Chelsea Space, London, UK
Founding Editor, Soundbox; Sound and Performance Archive
Curator, ‘The View from Here’, Slade Research Centre/ BBC Bush House, London, UK
Curator, with Neil Luck, The Voice and Nothing More, Slade Research Centre, London, UK
Curator, with Neil Luck, Notations, Slade Research Centre, London/ Resonance 104.4 FM, UK
Selected Bibliography
2011
2010
2010
2010
2009
2009
2009
2009
2008
Interview with Mike Hill, BBC Radio Tees, April, Middlesbrough, UK
David Ryan, ‘Be Glad for the Song Has No End ‘, Art Monthly, November, London, UK
Notes on a Return, Ex. Cat. Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK, ISBN: 978-0-9557478-6-1
Barbara Hodgson, ‘Cage Mix art has plenty to say’, The Journal, May, Newcastle, UK
David Whetstone, ‘Notes on a Return’, The Journal, August, Newcastle, UK
Interview with Jamie Wilkinson, BBC Radio Newcastle, August, Newcastle, UK
Chandra Johnson, ‘Sound Effects’, Taos News, April, New Mexico, USA
Interview with Stephanie Cotela Tanner, www.dazeddigital.com, February, Online
Kayleigh Dray, ‘Notations 2008’, London Student, Vol. 28, Issue 7, January, London, UK
Selected Teaching
2009 - 2011
2008 - 2011
2008 - 2009
Visiting Lecturer, BA/ MA Fine Art , University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Practitioner, Royal Opera House Creative Partnerships, Essex, UK
Visiting Lecturer, BA Fine Art, University College for the Creative Arts, Canterbury, UK
