Odeta Xheka

Born in the UNESCO heritage site of Berat, Albania, Odeta Xheka currently lives in Tampa, FL where she makes, curates and writes about art to claim her voice as a woman artist because art is the opposite of speechlessness. Focused on a cross-generational, multi-medium approach which goes beyond the conventional white cube paradigm, her work has been juried into prestigious national and international competitions and has been featured in art magazines and literary journals. She is currently working on gathering material on Fragments of Care, a new project that centers care not as an aside but as essential, particularly within the slow, often invisible labor of creative work.