Shirley Villavicencio Pizango b. 1988

Biography
Shirley Villavicencio Pizango

° Lima, PE
Lives and works in Ghent, Belgium.

Graduated from KASK and HISK in Ghent, Belgium.


Villavicencio Pizango participated in the Paradise Air Residency in Matsudo, Japan in 2017.

Having grown up in the Peruvian capital of Lima and the small village of Santiago De Borja in the Amazon rainforest, Shirley Villavicencio Pizango moved to Ghent, Belgium when she was eighteen years old. Fourteen years later, Villavicencio Pizango has nicely reconciled these diverse experiences to record her daily life in Ghent by painting portraits of family, friends and strangers. She portrays her sitters within lush vegetation and amidst textiles, pottery and geometric forms reminiscent of Incan sources. Her paintings are colorful, loose, expressionistic and folky and her sitters are depicted with a concise sensitivity that conveys nostalgia, memory and melancholy.

 
 
Exhibitions
Works
  • Shirley Villavicencio Pizango, The echo of how you saw me, 2025
    The echo of how you saw me, 2025
  • Shirley Villavicencio Pizango, Where Venus goes to remember, 2025
    Where Venus goes to remember, 2025
  • Shirley Villavicencio Pizango, I let go so I can fly, 2024
    I let go so I can fly, 2024
  • Shirley Villavicencio Pizango, In the end everything begins again, 2024
    In the end everything begins again, 2024
  • Shirley Villavicencio Pizango, Memories draped in papers, 2024
    Memories draped in papers, 2024
  • Shirley Villavicencio Pizango, Saying your name until my lips sore, 2024
    Saying your name until my lips sore, 2024
  • Shirley Villavicencio Pizango, The flowers are here because of you, 2024
    The flowers are here because of you, 2024
  • Shirley Villavicencio Pizango, The Mask of my Soul, 2024
    The Mask of my Soul, 2024
  • Shirley Villavicencio Pizango, Time to Look Inside my Soul, 2024
    Time to Look Inside my Soul, 2024
  • Shirley Villavicencio Pizango, Whispers of What We Were, 2024
    Whispers of What We Were, 2024
  • Shirley Villavicencio Pizango, Without sun there is no storm, 2024
    Without sun there is no storm, 2024
News
Art Fairs
Bibliography
Shirley Villavicencio Pizango

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024

'À mon regard tu te dérobes', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE
2022

'Unfinished Poetry', Art Brussels, Geukens & De Vil, Brussels, BE
2021

'Lima Vitae', Geukens & De Vil Gallery, Knokke, BE
Frieze Art Fair, Ginsberg Galleria, London, UK
'Under This Brown Earth, you’ll Find The Gold Of My Past', Ginsberg Gallery, Lima, PE
2020

'Digging a Hole to the Surface', Steve Turner, Los Angeles, USA
'Under the Same Moon with the Stars as Shelter in a Land of Sand', Geukens & De Vil Gallery, Antwerp, BE
2018

'Salty Rain, This Is Not a Déjà-vu', Geukens & De Vil Gallery, Antwerp, BE
Selected Group Exhibitions

 
2025

BRAFA Art Fair, Brussels, BE
'The Wall of She', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE
'Painting after Painting: A Contemporary Survey from Belgium', S.M.A.K., Ghent, BE
Art Brussels, Brussels, BE
2024

Art Brussels, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Brussels, BE
'Home Before Dark', Uitstalling Art Gallery, Ghent, BE
'5+1: Paul Delvaux in dialoog', Ten Bogaerde, Koksijde, BE
'La Grande Bouffe', Barbé Gallery, Ghent, BE
'Don't think twice, it's all right', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE
Triënnale Kortrijk, 'After Paradise', Kortrijk, BE
2023

Arco Madrid, Juana de Aizpuru Gallery, Madrid, ES
'Zandgrond', De Warande, Turnhout, BE
2022

'Finis Terrae', Geukens & De Vil, Antwerp, BE
'Another Spring', Diskus, Aalst, BE
Chicago Art Fair, Steve Turner Gallery, Chicago, USA
'That’s All Folks', Geukens & De Vil, Knokke, BE
 

Untitled Art Fair, Steve Turner Gallery, Miami Beach, USA
'Artlead Billboard Series', 019, Ghent, BE
'Show Up/Show off', OnBoards, Antwerp, BE
Frestas Triennial de Artes, São Paulo, BR
2020

'In a Long Blink of an Eye', HISK, Brussels, BE
'Artivirals', Maaltebruggekasteel, Ghent, BE
'No Touching', Kunst 100, Berlin, DE
2019

'CHAIN', Studio Koen van den Broek, Antwerp, BE
'Ofte Vojaĝantoj', curated by Benedicte Goesaert, 360° Kunst at Wilford X, Temse, BE
'En Piste!', Museum La Boverie, Liege, BE
2018

In de Ruimte, Ghent, BE
'Filet Pur — Lofzang voor de Man', BLANCO, Ghent, BE
'Salon BL', Begijnhof ter Hoye, Ghent, BE
'IT’S IMPORTANT TO KEEP IN TOUCH', In de Ruimte, Ghent, BE
2017

'Ecce Homo', Fierens Blokken, Antwerp, BE
Residencies  
 

Paradise Air, Matsudo, JP
Arteventura, Corteconcepcion, Huelva, ES