Not only the outstanding quality Next of Kin is an incredible early offering of a talented artist who can pretty much take her career in several directions if she chooses to. She can pursue the fashion side, editorial or keep making these images for herself.
Oxiea Villamonte, is a photographer born in Chicago, Illinois USA, 1995 based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Education
2020-2018 MFA in photography, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium
2018-2017 Semester in The Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in Guangzhou, China
2018-2015 BFA in photography, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium
Books
2020 18th November Next of Kin published together with Stockmans art books, Belgium
Grants and Awards
2025 Plat(t)form, photo museum, Winterthur, Switserland
2025-2024 One-year research project at The Royal Academy of Fine Art Antwerp, Belgium
2024 SOFAM mini stipendium, Belgium
2024 Mondriaanfonds stipend for young talent, The Netherlands
2024 Mondriaanfonds f/stop residency in Leipzig, Germany
2024 FOTODOK Talent Embassy Program, The Netherlands
2023 .tiff, Emerging Belgian Photography, photo museum, FOMU, Antwerp, Belgium
2023 SOFAM scholarship grant, Belgium
2022 Research project at The Royal Academy of Fine Art Antwerp, Belgium
Residencies, talks, lectures
2024 f/stop residency research and artistic work in Leipzig for three months, Germany
2023 Sint Lukas Antwerpen artist talk for the photography department, Belgium
2022 Portfolio review and workshop in Sutnarka, Pilsen, Czech Republic
2022 Symposium, Boundaries: Biography 11th International Symposium and Exhibition Pilsen, Czech Republic
2022 Soup Session together with Nico Dockx, KASKA Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
2022 Artist talk, KASKA Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
2021 Six-month residency at stARTwell, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Solo exhibtions
2025 Pizza Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2025 Mother. Wife. Worker. Muze The Luther Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2024 24 hour Punk Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany
2021 Next of Kin, The Wunderwall, Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium
Group Exhibitions
2026 The Wunderwall Enlarged, Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium
2025 Migration is Normal, Plus One Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2025 All fours, Homecoming Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2025 Prospects Mondriaan Fund, Art Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2025 XXX OCULI The portrait and The landscape, Brussels, Belgium
2025 Photography Festival Vizualizator, Belgrade, Serbia
2024 10th edition of f/stop festival for photography in Leipzig, Germany
2023 .tiff, Emerging Belgian Photography, photo museum, FOMU, Belgium
2023 Out of Office open air exhibition in Koning Albert I-park in Bruges, Belgium
2023 Shalom Aleikoum. Peace be with you, Belgium
2022 Group exhibition Boundaries, Biography in Ladislav Sutnar Gallery Pilsen, Czech Republic
2021 Things that count MATCA, Vietnam
2021 Solo Show on The Wunderwall at Sofie Van de Velde and PLUS-ONE Gallery, Belgium
2020 Participated in Art Feeds Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Belgium
2020 KASKA Master graduation group exhibition hosted by FOMU, Antwerp, Belgium
2020 Solo show, Oude Beurs, Antwerp, Belgium
2020 Group Exhibition Ooh sweet Art you are tantalizing us, Temple, The Royal Academy of Fine Art Antwerp, Belgium
Selected press / interviews / commissions / features
2025 For The Luther Museum Oxiea Villamonte shows herself in different female roles, Het Parool, The Netherlands
2025 Review photo exhibition, The Netherlands
2025 Review in Focus Magazine, The Netherlands
2025 18 Questions with Oxiea Villamonte, Untitled, Db
2024 Living room and atelier in one, BREEDBEELD, studio visit/interview, Belgium
2024 DAMN 86 Dreamscape As Real Life: Oxiea Villamonte, an entanglement, Belgium
2024 KAROO magazine, Belgium
2024 SOFAM publication, Belgium
2023 Tique publication on contemporary art: Six questions for Oxiea Villamonte, Belgium
2023 .tiff Emerging Belgian Photography publication, Belgium
2023 Photographed by Koos Breukel in Het Parool, The Netherlands
2023 Futures publication, The Netherlands
2022 FOTOGRAF magazine #43 collecting, Czech Republic
2022 Merde magazine archival ephemera, Paris, France
2022 Next of Kin review by Fabien Ribery
2021 American suburb X ‘Next of Kin’ review by Brad Feuerhelm
2020 HART magazine Nr.208, 4 November portrait made of the artist Klaas Rommelaere, Belgium
2020 HART magazine Nr. 208, brief aan Hans Theys van Vincent Van Meenen, Belgium
2019 Fashion Master publication, The Royal Academy of Fine Art, Antwerp, Belgium