°1988, Lima, PE Lives and works in Ghent, BE Graduated from KASK and HISK in Ghent, BE 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.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
'Unfinished Poetry', Art Brussels, Geukens & De Vil, Brussels, BE
'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
'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
'Salty Rain, This Is Not a Déjà-vu', Geukens & De Vil Gallery, Antwerp, BE
Selected Group Exhibitions
(forthcoming) 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
Arco Madrid, Juana de Aizpuru Gallery, Madrid, ES 'Zandgrond', De Warande, Turnhout, BE
'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
'In a Long Blink of an Eye', HISK, Brussels, BE 'Artivirals', Maaltebruggekasteel, Ghent, BE 'No Touching', Kunst 100, Berlin, DE
'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
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
'Ecce Homo', Fierens Blokken, Antwerp, BE
Residencies
Paradise Air, Matsudo, JP Arteventura, Corteconcepcion, Huelva, ES
Shirley Villavicencio Pizango Saying your name until my lips sore, 2024 Acrylic on canvas 130 x 90 cm
Shirley Villavicencio Pizango 'The Dream that broke a Heart’, 2024 Acrylic on canvas Smoked oak frame 80x188cm