Sculptor, printmaker, and mixed-media artist Ray Beldner was born in San Francisco, CA, in 1961. After high school he studied for a time at the California College of Arts and Crafts (now the California College of the Arts) before dropping out to travel throughout Europe. He settled in Brussels, studying painting and prinmaking. On his return, he enrolled at the San Francisco Art Institute where he received his BFA in Painting and Printmaking. He then earned his MFA in Sculpture from Mills College in Oakland, CA, where he studied under Jay DeFeo, Ron Nagle, Catherine Wagner, and John Roloff. He has been the recipient of the California Arts Council Fellowship, a Haas Foundations Creative Work Fund Grant, and a Potrero Nuevo environmental art grant. His work is held in numerous collections and has been featured in Art in America, Artweek, Art on Paper, Wired, Playboy, the Boston Globe, the Village Voice, the New York Times, and more. 

In addition to his art career, Beldner taught classes in various art media throughout the San Francisco Bay Area for nearly twenty years. He continues to live and work in Dallas, Texas and the Bay Area.

Recent solo exhibitions:
2025: Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2022: Ray Beldner: New Work, Adnis Wine, Plymouth, CA; Cut and Paste. Repeat. 555 California St., San Francisco, CA
2021: A Journey Through Abstract Reciprocal Perspectives, Launch Gallery, Los Angeles
2019: Ray Beldner: Shaped Collages, Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA; Kolaj, Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery, Lafayette, CA

Recent group exhibitions:
2023: Shape Shifters, Garvey/Simon Gallery, San Anselmo, CA; Hang Time, Bridgette Mayer Gallery; Assembly Required, Garvey/Simon Gallery
2022: Future Patchwork, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Sightlines, Melissa Morgan Gallery, Palm Desert, CA; Cultural Currency: Contemporary Art from the Riemer Collection, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2020: Depicting Duchamp: Portraits of Marcel Duchamp, Francis Naumann Fine Arts, New York, NY