Dina Belyayeva is a Connecticut-based, Russian-born contemporary realist artist. She received her training in a town near Moscow, famous for its historical artist colony, then worked in illustration. After her move to the United States, she pursued career paths in business and academia. Those experiences provided her with multifaceted inputs and created prerequisite conditions for developing her visual vocabulary. In 2020 she resumed her art practice full time, promptly gained recognition at competitive juried exhibitions and was elected to the American Artists Professional League. Her visual style is fluid with a lasting emotional signature that provides a unifying theme for her artworks.