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.

Her artwork has been shown extensively, most recently at Abington Art Center, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Annmarie Sculpture Garden&Arts Center, Maryland Federation of Art, Praxis Photo Art Center, and WoArt while her creative nonfiction and art criticism has been published by Memoir Magazine, Kolaj Magazine, Muther Magazine, NewFeather Anthology, and Literary Mama among other online and in-print publications. She is shortlisted for Mother United Art Prize 2022, category collage& fiber art and her artwork is also featured in Art Seen Magazine, Kolaj Magazine, Thought Art Magazine, and The Rappahannock Review.
Born in Berat, Albania, currently she lives in Tampa, Florida after 4 years spent studying art in Athens, Greece and another 16 years in Brooklyn, New York.