Currently based in Amsterdam

Email for commissions and information

maytebreed@live.nl

@maytebreed

Born in 1997, Mayte Breed runs a photographic practice based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague in 2024, after earning a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies with a focus on Biology from the University of Amsterdam. 

Drawing on a background in Biology, she approaches photography as her research method of the everyday. Consistent observation and natural curiosity allow Mayte to dissect the unnoticed. Through the medium of photography, she focuses on human interactions with their environment like artificial representations in urban settings, encounters with plants and animals, and glimpses through humid windows. This results in images with a sense of ease.

By careful pairings and different media - photography, moving images, installations, and bookmaking - she combines moments in time from a world that others only occasionally notice.



Education
2020 - 2024    
BA Photography
Royal Academy of Arts
The Hague, The Netherlands

2016 - 2019        
BSc Future Planet Studies
University of Amsterdam
Major Biology

2015-2016          
BSc Biology
Univeristy of Amsterdam
Exhibitions


2024 |  Art The Hague

Gallery Curatedartwork

2 - 6 October

The Hague, The Netherlands




2024 | Best of Graduates 2024

Group exhibition at Gallery Ron Mandos

25 July - 15 September

Amsterdam, The Netherlands




2024 | Flowing Forward in Closed Cycles

Group exhibition at Paradise

27 June - 31 July

The Hague, The Netherlands




2024 | Graduation Show 2024

Group exhibition at Royal Acamdy of Art

28 June - 2 July

The Hague, The Netherlands




2024 | Flowing Forward in Closed Cycles

Group exhibtion at NWO Life 2024

Commissioned by NWO

26 - 28 May

Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands




2023 | As Above, So Below

Group exhibition at The Grey Space in The Middle

19 - 23 January

The Hague, The Netherlands




2022 | We Do/Are Photography

Group exhibitions at Internationale Photoszene Köln

20 - 22 October

Köln, Germany



Prizes and Nominations

2024
RM Photo Talent Prize - won
Lakeside Collection Award - nominated
Het Stadsarchief Amsterdam Documentaire foto-opdracht - selected
Best of Graduates 2024 - selected




Collections
Museum Voorlinden, AkzoNobel Art Foundation,
Lakeside Collection and various private collections
© Mayte Breed