Ceramic artist, born in Vologda. He has been practicing ceramics since 2015, a student of Vladimir Kholshchagin. Works are in the collection of the Art Museum of Cherepovets, as well as in private collections in Russia and abroad. Solo exhibitions have been held in the United States, France, Russia and Japan.

“Working with the material teaches attention of a special subtle quality, in response to which the beauty of chance is revealed. Isn't this what happens in life as well? I might say I maintain a respectful distance, believing that an object “happens” as much as I participate in its occurrence, but what happens beyond the workshop doors? What experiences am I able to bring out of the workshop into everyday life? I suppose in my case it is the experience of attention to detail in the midst of maximum unpredictability.     

The question of the relationship between artist and material, or rather the changes to which this relationship leads, is in my opinion the most important question of art theory and practice. Ultimately, the nature of the material, the viewer and the artist are one, we are all just what we are. There is no exploitative hierarchy in this union. The artist is the person who learns from the material the transformation of the experience of artistic practice into the experience of true art - a vision of the self-sufficiency of the beauty of the relationship of the phenomena of this world.

The material teaches by bestowing a natural state of attention. In response to attention of this quality, every moment of the artist-material relationship inevitably evokes a foretaste of an experience that lies beyond the ability to merely magnify what is commonly referred to as the beauty of the surface or the harmony of the form of the object being created. The attentive experience of consciously and convincingly accepting the unpredictability of the results of the process, gradually erodes the illusion of control, spilling out beyond the inner world of the workshop, fertilizing everyday consciousness with a reconciling knowledge of the uncontrollable nature of this world. In this way, through artistic practice, a new limit is reached - the possibility of reconciling the 'inner', materially embodied in the space and decoration of the artist's studio, and the 'outer', represented by the spontaneous nature of everyday life outside the studio.”

Personal exhibitions

2022 – “Ivan Belyaev. Ceramics and Graphics” Urban Mud Gallery, Denver, US
2021 — “Matter” Tropheemacocotte, Paris, France
2021 — "Transparency. New dilution", Art Design Human Studio, Moscow, Russia
2019 — "Inner self", Pragmata Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.

Group exhibitions

2022 – “5 elements of tea” The State Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow
2021 — “Shapes of Comfort” Germany, Wehrmuhle Biesenthal, Art Biesenthal
2019 — "Stereotypes of the Future" St. Petersburg, Museum of Street Art.
2019 — "Stereotypes of the Future" Moscow, Izmailovsky Kremlin.
2019 — "She. Quartet", series "Through. The Wisdom of Female Nature", Cherepovets, Museum of Archaeology. Group exhibition (A. Pesterev, D. Trusevich, I. Vasilyeva, I. Belyaev )
2019 — "She. Trilogy", Red Bridge Art Gallery, Vologda. Group exhibition (A. Pesterev, D. Trusevich, I. Belyaev )
2018 — "Silence of the Way. Meeting" "Red Corner" Vologda. (A.Pesterev, I.Belyaev)
2018 — "Winter, and all for the first time again", series "Time of traces" Moscow, gallery "On Kashirka". Group exhibition of Moscow artists.
2017 — "Collaborations" Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry, Moscow. joint exhibition of Russian and Japanese artists, within the framework of the conference "Contemporary Art of the East".
2017 — "Banks and Rivers. Movement", Vologda. Personal exhibition.
2016 — "Youth of Russia", Moscow, Central House of Artists. Exhibition of young Russian artists..