Selected Art Shows

ODETA XHEKA

Working across painting, collage, and digital media, Odeta Xheka’s story parallels the highs and lows that countless women artists face as they negotiate the demands of daily pressures of the family with the aspiration to make ambitious art that is both sensitive&cerebral within an existing culture that likes things to be simple and pigeonholed.

As a woman, fated to be narrated rather than be the narrator, she makes art to claim her voice because art is the opposite of speechlessness.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2023, Selected for Juried museum exhibition Pushing Forward, Reaching Back 2023, American Women Artists
2023, Selected for Juried show Down on Paper, Vestige Concept Gallery
2023, Selected for Juried show Making the Cut, Shoebox Projects
2023, Archieve Display, Procreate Project
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, Selected for online Juried show, Elemental: Earth, Fire, Water, Air, Maryland Federation of Art, MFA Circle Gallery
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 Center
2022, Selected for Juried show, Abstract 2022, Sebastopol Center for the Arts
2022, A World Collage Day exhibition, De Krook, Ghent, Belgium
2022, Selected for Summer Juried show, Abington Art Center
2022, Selected for Juried show, 50th Annual Melvin Gallery Art Exhibition, the Lakeland Art Guild
2022, Solo online exhibit, Artist of the Month, Thought Art Magazine
2022, Selected for Juried online exhibit, Mixed Metaphors, Collage Artists of America
2022, Selected for Juried international online exhibit, Treasured Moments, Art to Hearts Project
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
2021, Selected for group show, 25 Photographs, Pioneer Works
2021, Selected for digital group show, Patterns in Nature, WoArt Gallery
2021, Selected for digital group show, Monochromatic, WoArt Gallery
2021, Selected for group show, The Forgetting Room, Las Lagunas Gallery
2021, Selected for digital group show, Amber, Envision Art
2016-2021 exclusively mothering my son and y
2016, Access Art Group Show, Brooklyn Arts Council, New York, NY
2015, Access Art Group Show, Brooklyn Arts Council, New York, NY
2013, Selected for group show, Year in Review 2013, Team See
2008, Selected for group show, World Fine Art Gallery
2006, Selected for group show, Young Artists, Independent Gallery, Athens, Greece
2005, Selected for group show, Women Artists of Albania, Albania National Gallery
2004, Selected for group show, Women Artists of Albania, Albania National Gallery
2002 Abstractors, Independent Gallery, Athens, Greece
1999 Experiencing Tremors, Edward Lear Gallery, Berat, Albania
1998 The Hope, Edward Lear Gallery, Berat, Albania
1997 Young Artists, Edward Lear Gallery, Berat, Albania

ART MAGAZINES

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 PUBLICATIONS

2022, Peepholes & Smokesscreens, New Feathers Anthology
2022, Painting With Scissors, Kolaj Magazine
2022, Iris on My Mind, Memoir Magazine
2020, At the Kitchen Table Where Miracles Happen, Literary Mama
2019, In My Defense, Mutha Magazine

COLLECTIONS

Private Collection, Miami, Florida, USA

Private Collection, New York, New York, USA

Private Collection, Queens, New York, USA

Private Collection, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Private Collection, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Private Collection, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA

Private Collection, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Private Collection, Orlando, Florida, USA

Private Collection, Athens, Greece

Private Collection, San Torini, Greece

Private Collection, Tirana, Albania