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Ray Beldner is a mixed media artist and for the past 25 years, has exhibited his art both nationally and internationally. His work can be found in many public and private collections including the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and the Federal Reserve Board, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Oakland Museum of California, the San Jose Museum of Art. The work is in several corporate collections as well: Saks Fifth Ave, Bain Capital, McKesson Corporation, and Ryan Associates.

Born in San Francisco, Beldner received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from Mills College in Oakland, California. He has received numerous awards and fellowships including a California Arts Council Fellowship in New Genres, a Creative Work Fund Grant from the Haas Foundations, and a Potrero Nuevo environmental art grant.

His work has been reviewed in numerous publications including Art in America, Art on Paper, Wired, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice, the International Herald Tribune and the New York Times. Recent catalogues with his work include: Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture, MIT Press, 2009; Art of Engagement: Visual Politics in California and Beyond, University of California Press, 2006; Imaginary Economics: Contemporary Artists and the World of Big Money, NAi Publishers, 2005.

A lifelong advocate for artists, in 2015, he co-founded and is the Director of Startup Art Fair, a hotel art fair for independent artists that he produces annually in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, and Chicago.