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
2018-2015 BFA in photography, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium
2018 During the first year of my MFA, I was selected to travel and create a work in Havana, Cuba
2018-2017 Six-month exchange program in The Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in Guangzhou, China
Books
2020 18th November Next of Kin published together with Stockmans art books, Belgium
Grants and Awards
2024 One-year research project at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts 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
2023 FUTURES, photography platform, The European Union
2022 Research project at The Royal Academy of Fine Art Antwerp, Belgium
Residencies
2024 Three-month residency in Leipzig, Germany, at the invitation of the Dutch consulate and Mondriaan Fund, The Netherlands
2021 Six-month residency at stARTwell, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Exhibitions
2025 Prospects Mondriaan Fund, Art Rotterdam, The Netherlands (group)
2025 XXX OCULI The portrait and the landscape, Brussels, Belgium (group)
2024 Photography Festival Vizualizator, Belgrade, Serbia (duo show)
2024 24 hour Punk, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany (solo)
2024 Spring gallery tour, LIA at Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany (group)
2024 10th edition of f/stop festival for photography in Leipzig, Germany (group)
2023 .tiff, Emerging Belgian Photography, photo museum, FOMU, Belgium (group)
2023 Lucerna Passage, Prague, Czech Republic (group)
2023 Billboards in Pilsen, Czech Republic (group)
2023 Out of Office open air exhibition in Koning Albert I-park in Bruges, Belgium (group)
2023 Shalom Aleikoum. Peace be with you, Belgium (group)
2022 Boundaries, Biography in Ladislav Sutnar Gallery Pilsen, Czech Republic (group)
2021 Things that count MATCA, Vietnam (group)
2021 The Wunderwall at Sofie Van de Velde and PLUS-ONE Gallery, Belgium (solo)
2020 Participated in Art Feeds Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Belgium (group)
2020 KASKA Master graduation group exhibition hosted by FOMU, Antwerp, Belgium (group)
2020 Exhibition Ooh sweet Art you are tantalizing us, Temple, The Royal Academy of Fine Art Antwerp, Belgium (group)
2019 Exhibition My heart is in Havana in the Wintertuin, The Royal Academy of Fine Art, Antwerp, Belgium (group)
2018 Exhibition the Turning Point and The ReTurn-Visions of DiverCITIES, Redtory, Guangzhou, China (group)
2018 Exhibition Studio 5 at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Guangzhou, China (group)
2017 Exhibition Verloren Verhalen, Museum Mayer van den Berg, Antwerp, Belgium (group)
Publications / interviews / Reviews
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
2024 Flucht in die Öffentlichkeit festival program publication, Leipzig, Germany
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 Yourself, the other, Oxiea Villamonte, Photographer, 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
Talks and Lectures
2024 Artist talk in gradska galleria, Photography Festival Vizualizator, Belgrade, Serbia
2024 Artist talk together with Oxiea Villamonte, Alem Kolbus, Philipp Freytag and presentation of the “Spectrum Shimmer” workshop with women from the project together MUTig at DaMigra e.V. MdbK, Leipzig, Germany
2024 Spectrum Shimmer workshop, for a group of women organized by DaMigra, Leipzig, Germany
2024 Artist talk in the Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany
2024 Artist talk during the Leipzig photo book festival, GRASSI Museum, Germany
2024 Jury member for the Master students of graphic design, Antwerp, Belgium
2023 Artist talk in Sint Lukas for the photography department, Antwerp, Belgium
2023 .tiff TALKS: SPEED TOURS & TALKS FOMU, Antwerp, Belgium
2023 Belgian photography meeting in Arles, France
2022 Symposium 30 November, 1 and 2 December Pilsen, Czech Republic
2022 Workshop and portfolio reviews for the photography students in Pilsen, Czech Republic
2022 Soup Session conversation with Nico Dockx and Oxiea Villamonte, Antwerp, Belgium
2022 Artist talk KASKA Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium