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, 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

Private Collection, Tirana, Albania