About

Born in Moscow, I studied General Medicine at the 2nd Moscow State Medical Institute, completing my residency in Neurology. After completing my medical training the mid-1990s, my wife and I emigrated to Canada, where we currently live in Toronto, Ontario.

Besides my main work, I have been actively engaged in visual arts – painting and digital graphics. I developed my artistic practice under the informal mentorship of artists Diana Belaya and Fyodor Tamarsky (France), to whom I owe my deepest gratitude. While I participated in few exhibitions, many of my works are held in private collections across Canada, the USA, France, and Russia. I was a professional member of CARFAC until recently.

I also write, beginning in the mid-2000s. My literary work includes essays, poetry, and experimental texts.

In my writing, I explore liminal states of consciousness and reality, play with absurdity and paradoxes of modern life, and reflect on time, memory, and illusions. I'm interested in creating a lively and light atmosphere and finding methods adequate to this task.

In painting and graphics, I work with fantastic images and abstractions, creating visual equivalents of the same explorations.

Ilia Belyi

This English site contains galleries of my visual work and selected translations from my Russian writings. For the full range of my literary work in Russian, please visit ru.belyi.ca.

Some of my works (digital graphics) are presented on Saatchi Art, where they can be ordered in print with delivery.

You can also visit VR galleries on Spatial.io: digital abstraction and fantastic animals, "Beautiful Basilisks" series.

Some poems I've processed with Suno AI and now they are songs.