Intima: Latin word meaning knowing, within;
intimate: deeply personal, private, or secret;
having a deep or unusual knowledge of; to make known . . .
Artist and Master Printer, Mindy Belloff, creates mixed media installations and fine book editions in the heart of New York City, establishing Intima Press, the only private press in Manhattan, NY. She has been creating art for over four decades in painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, mixed media, and the art of the book, and wears the hats of educator, gallerist, curator, lecturer, and independent scholar. Her editions are in numerous permanent collections including the Library of Congress, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the National Gallery of Art, and the British Library.
The newest volume from the Press, The Golden Hair of Medusa, received a Fine Press Book Association Judge’s Choice Award in 2025. In his review, Michael Ryan writes: “The Golden Hair of Medusa is thus a remarkable work which exists on several different levels. It provokes and challenges. It invites us to consider what may be really going on in this tale. Above all it demonstrates what a mature artist book can be, utilizing text and artifact to create a complex integrated whole. But this is what we expect from Mindy Belloff, an artist whose body of work never lets the viewer off easily….Above all, Medusa the book subverts Medusa the myth. In its sheer beauty, its drama, its subtleties, and its powerful creativity, it completely reframes the myth as a magnificent piece of art to behold, rather than turn away from.”
The award winning volume, A Golden Thread: The Minotaur, A Contemporary Illumination (2018), was described in a Parenthesis Journal review by Michael Ryan as, “a genuine masterpiece of art and design.” It received the Fine Press Book Association Award in 2020, and was prominently exhibited at the Peabody Essex Museum (September 2019 – March 2020), titled The Creative Legacy of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Selections from the Phillips Library Collection. https://www.pem.org/blog/nathaniel-hawthornes-creative-legacy. Her edition titled W2LZX received a Herzog Honorable Mention for Excellence in Book Design award in 2010.
Mindy Belloff’s meticulous, hand-set contemporary printing of the Unanimous Declaration of Independence (2009) as originally printed by Mary Katharine Goddard in January 1777, is paired with her own re-written, inclusive edition of the broadside proclaiming, “all People are created equal.” It received a Puffin Foundation Grant supporting “creative and innovative initiatives that advance progressive social change.”
Early in her career, Mindy Belloff’s mixed media installation from her “Loss, Irony, Identity” series, exhibited at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, was favorably reviewed by Holland Cotter in The New York Times. Exhibitions at multiple venues include The Sculpture Center, and PS 122 in New York City.
The Artist holds a Master of Arts degree from New York University with studies at the International Center of Photography, and extensive graduate work at the San Francisco Art Institute. She has studied postmodernism and cultural critique with Nan Golden, Barbara Kruger, Saul Ostrow, Sherrie Levine, Vito Acconci, Suzanne Anker, Anne Truitt, Peter Campus, and Gerald Pryor. Mindy is a MacDowell Fellow and has received a National Endowment for the Arts Book Grant through the Visual Studies Workshop. She opened Intima Gallery in upstate New York (2013-14), showcasing photographs, artist’s books, and fine prints on paper.
A native New Yorker born in Brooklyn, Mindy has numerous years as an art educator and university art professor (including The New School Writing and Poetry Program, the Rare Book and Special Collections program at the Palmer School of Library Science, the School of Visual Arts, Women’s Studio Workshop, Pyramid Atlantic, the Center for Book Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Florida Atlantic University, New York University, the San Francisco Art Institute, Hofstra University’s College for Continuing Education, and Cornell University’s Experimental College Program). Her teaching archives with approximately a thousand pieces of ephemera and books from over a decade of sharing the traditions of printing and the book with many hundreds of students at her New York Studio on the Square, are held at Columbia University’s Butler Library, NYC.
At the Studio, everything is meticulously crafted by hand. Traditional printing is done on a vintage Vandercook Universal III automatic, adjustable bed (A/B) press. Mindy combines the highest quality classic printing with modern technology. This may include hand setting 3-dimensional type, utilizing digital design for photopolymer or engraving plates, art prints with linoleum blocks, or layering of painterly techniques. On the intaglio press, monoprinting, transfer printing, etching and drypoint prints are created; and techniques such as pochoir, digital imaging, photography, and painting are all done at the Press, as well as editioned prints, portfolios, hand bindings and custom boxes.
All of Mindy’s artwork reflects her keen eye, extensive knowledge of art history and wide-ranging skills: painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, installation art, welding, sculpture, glass blowing, woodworking, fine letterpress, typographical design, writing, and poetry.
