Odeta Xheka makes art to claim her voice because art is the opposite of speechlessness.
Her art, ranging from the abstract to figurative and from traditional to digital, has been juried into national and international competitions. Her artwork is also featured in various art magazines and literary journals while her creative nonfiction, poetry, and art criticism can be found both in print and online publications.
Born in Berat, Albania currently she lives in Tampa, Florida after four years spent studying art history in Athens, Greece and another sixteen years nurturing both her children and her art practice in Brooklyn, New York.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
- 2024, Spotlighted Local Artist, Gobioff Foundation, Gasparilla Arts Festival
- 2024, Solo Show Koflet Gallery, John F. Germany Public Library
- 2023, Selected for Virtual Gallery of Hidden Art, Hidden Letters award winning documentary
- 2023, Selected for Juried museum exhibition Pushing Forward, Reaching Back 2023, American Women Artists
- 2023, Selected for Juried show 36th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition, Grand Gallery, Shearman Fine Arts Annex, McNeese State University
- 2023, Selected for Annual Regional Juried Show: Identity, Exploring the Human Condition, Art Center Sarasota
- 2023, Procreate Project Public Art Display, London, UK
- 2023, Selected for Juried show Works on Paper, 16th Annual Bay Area Art Exhibit, Tampa Regional Artists
- 2023, Selected for Juried show Down on Paper, Vestige Concept Gallery
- 2022, Shortlisted artist, category Collage & Fiber Art, Women United Art Prize
- 2022, Selected for Juried show The Figure, Sarasota Art Center
- 2022, Selected for Juried show The Poetics of Materiality, Wavelength Space
- 2022, Selected for Juried show Internal Dialogue, Collage Artists of America
- 2022, Awarded Juror’s Choice certificate, Elemental: Earth, Fire, Water, Air, Maryland Federation of Art, MFA Circle Gallery
- 2022, Selected for National Juried exhibit, Paper Art, Bower Center
- 2022, Selected for International Juried exhibition, Food - The Aftermath, Praxis Photo Arts Ce
- 2022, Selected for Summer Juried show, Abington Art Center
- 2022, Selected for Juried show, 50th Annual Melvin Gallery Art Exhibition, the Lakeland Art Gallery
- 2022, Selected for Juried show, Adorned: Art Inspired by Fabric and Fashion, Annmarie Sculpture Garden&Arts Center
- 2022, Selected for Juried show, The Art of Reading, Tifton Museum
- 2022, Selected for WaterWorks Art Museum traveling collection
- 2022, Selected for Juried show, Color Your Dreams, WaterWorks Art Museum
- 2021, Selected for Juried show, Small Wonders, Maryland Federation of Art, MFA Circle Gallery
- 2021, Selected for Juried show, Little by Little, Art Intersection, Ryan Gallery
- 2021, Selected for group show, Verdant, Envision Art, UNT Colab Gallery
ART MAGAZINES
- 2024, Selected for publication in Oye Drum, Volume VI
- 2023, Selected for publication in PLORKOLOGY
- 2023, Selected for publication in Women United Art Magazine, Print ISSUE 03
- 2023, Selected for publicatoin in Suboart Magazine, Print ISSUE 02
- 2022, Selected for publication in Art Seen Magazine, Winter ISSUE
- 2022, Selected for publication in Thought Art Magazine, ISSUE 06
- 2022, Selected for publication in KOLAJ Magazine, ISSUE 36
- 2022, Featured Artist, The Rappahannock Review, ISSUE 10.1
SELECTED WRITING
- 2023, MotherArt: The Second Act, Women United Art Magazine
- 2022, Painting With Scissors, Kolaj Magazine
- 2022, Peepholes & Smokescreens, New Feathers Anthology
- 2022, Iris on My Mind, Memoir Magazine
- 2020, At the Kitchen Table Where Miracles Happen, Literary Mama
- 2019, In My Defense, Mutha Magazine