Steven Louis Belzman, painter, printmaker, and illustrator, was born to Theodore and Ann Belzman in Los Angeles, California on July 1, 1939. He graduated from Hawthorne High School and studied fine art at the University of California Los Angeles and the University of California Berkeley. Belzman also studied printmaking at Valley State College, Northridge, California.

He met his first wife, Beverly, at their synagogue near Los Angeles and, after their wedding and world travels, they moved to Oregon where they lived in Newport and Toledo between 1968 and 1978. They did live briefly in Santa Rosa, California but eventually moved in Spokane, Washington. There Steve continued producing his art and worked as a traveling salesman for the Moland Greeting Card Company. He was an active member of Temple Beth Shalom and co-founded the Davenport Arts District in Spokane which helped to revitalize the area around the historic Davenport Hotel. A mural on the exterior wall of the Avenue West Gallery depicting a kayaker racing down the Spokane River was dedicated to Steven Belzman in 2021.

Belzman’s woodcut Fishing, produced in 1971, was included in the exhibition Politics in Prints: Political and Social Images from the University of Oregon Museum of Art in 1991. Images, an exhibition of woodblock prints by Belzman, was featured at the Avenue West Gallery in Spokane in 2018.

Steven Louis Belzman died in Spokane, Washington on July 10, 2019.