2024_Angyvir Padilla

Angyvir Padilla

Angyvir Padilla (b. Caracas, Venezuela, 1987) is a Brussels-based visual and performance artist. Her work has been recently exhibited in numerous venues, including FOMU Museum, Antwerp (2024), JAP vitrine, Brussels (2023-24), IKOB Museum, Eupen (2023), Antwerp Art Weekend (2023), CIAP, Genk (2022), Centrale Vitrine, Brussels (2021), Frac Grand Large — Hauts-de-France, Dunkerque (2021-22), and S.M.A.K Museum, Ghent (2021). She has also gained international recognition through exhibitions in Paris, Germany, Athens, and Caracas.

In recent years, Padilla has been granted numerous residencies and awards, including the Fiminco Foundation residency in Paris (2022-23), an ongoing long-term residency at Moussem Nomadic Art Centre in Brussels (2023-), and the MLeuven residency program at Cas-co in Leuven (2024). She received the Sabam Prize of ArtContest in Brussels in 2020, the prize of the Watch This Space biennial in Lille in 2022, and was one of the laureates of the Friends of S.M.A.K. prize in Ghent in 2021. In 2024, her work was on view at The Kunstverein Friedrichshafen in Germany, and she was selected for the MINO Female Artist Mentorship program with mentors Otobong Nkanga and Léonard Pongo. Padilla is currently part of the Morpho residency program in Antwerp and the Futures program, and will have an end-of-residency presentation at MLeuven Museum in October 2024.