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 MFA in photography, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium
2018 Semester in The Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in Guangzhou, China
2018 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
2024-2025 One year research project at The Royal Academy of Fine Art Antwerp, 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 Artist talk in the MdbK with Oxiea Villamonte, Alem Kolbus, Philipp Freytag and presentation of the workshop “Spectrum Shimmer” with women from the project Gemeinsam MUTig and DaMigra e.V.
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
Selected Shows
(2026) Prospects Art Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2024 10th edition of f/stop festival for photography, exhibiting in the MdbK – Museum der bildenden Künste in Leipzig, Germany
2024 Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig Gallery (HGB Galerie) group show, Leipzig Germany
2024 Rundgang in the Spinnerei, 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
2019 Group Exhibition END SEASON, Hopland 10, 2000 Antwerp Belgium
2019 Group Exhibition My heart is in Havana in the Wintertuin, The Royal Academy of Fine Art, Antwerp, Belgium
2018 Group Exhibition the Turning Point and The ReTurn-Visions of DiverCITIES, Redtory, Guangzhou, China
2018 Group Exhibition Studio 5 at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Guangzhou, China
2018 Group Exhibition I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore, Antwerp, Belgium
2017 Group Exhibition Latent Memory, in The Oud Havenhuis, Antwerp, Belgium
2017 Group Exhibition Verloren Verhalen, Museum Mayer van den Berg, Antwerp, Belgium
2016 Group Exhibition Frame, in The Hal, Antwerp, Belgium
Selected press / interviews / commissions / features
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
Collective collections
2020 Nico Dockx (1974) his project in The provincial house in Antwerp Titled: Every collection hides another collection. Dockx invited me to photograph the structure that he built with the artwork on display. The photographs were published in a book by Stockmans art books (BE)