Daniel Belardinelli

Daniel Belardinelli
Nationality	American
Alma mater	CUNY School of Law
Occupation	Artist

Daniel Belardinelli (born May 12, 1961) is a self-taught artist associated with outsider art. Additionally he is a writer, art dealer, curator, and an attorney. Belardinelli discovered, mentored, and promoted the career of outsider artist Robert Sundholm.

Daniel Belardinelli was born and raised in Manhattan, New York.

Belardinelli had communication difficulties as a child and learned to express himself through artistic compositions. By the age of 15, the artist frequented Studio 54 and Xenon. As a result, he met and was influenced by Andy Warhol, Larry Rivers, Christopher Makos, and Antonio Lopez. He developed addictions but eventually was able to keep them at bay by drawing and painting about them.

Belardinelli uses multiple mediums to paint but nail polish has been a dominant medium of his art since 1985. Each day the artist draws and paints in large At-A-Glance Journals which bear witness to his life.

Belardinelli booked a ticket on United Flight 93 on September 11, 2001, a flight that crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Belardinelli changed his plans and did not board the flight. Belardinelli made a drawing of what the terrorists announced over the loudspeaker to the passengers that was included in Jere Longman's book Among the Heroes. Belardinelli was featured in the A&E documentary I Missed Flight 93 (2006).

Belardinelli has exhibited at the Outsider Art Fair annually since 1995, and his work has been displayed in the American Visionary Art Museum. In 2001, several of Belardinelli's nail polish paintings were included in the "High On Life - Transcending Addictions" show which was curated by Tom Paterson at AVAM. He has participated in "Revelations and Reflections of American Self Taught Artists," and has exhibited worldwide, but most extensively in Europe and the Americas. He was listed in "Outsider Art Fair: 10 Artists to Buy Now" in The Daily Beast.

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