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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 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 

 

Selected Shows

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

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 ParoolThe 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)