Mayte Breed

Background

About Mayte Breed

Mayte Breed (b. 1997) is an artist from Egmond, based in Amsterdam. She studied Environmental Studies with a focus on Biology at the University of Amsterdam, graduating in 2019, and completed a BA in Photography at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, in 2024. In 2024, her graduation work was selected for the Best of Graduates exhibition at Gallery Ron Mandos, and she won the RM Photo Prize. Her work Ringweg was selected and funded by Het Stadsarchief Amsterdam and acquired for their archive. In 2025, she participated in a residency in Lisbon, Portugal, and her first solo exhibition opens at the end of September at Sanquin, Amsterdam. Her work is part of the collections of Museum Voorlinden, AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Lakeside Collection, KPMG, and various private collections. Mayte Breed’s artistic approach is shaped by her background in Biology, as she sees her practice as everyday research. Her work explores human-made spaces and landscapes, as well as the medium of photography. Attentive observation and curiosity allow her to dissect the unnoticed: crawling ants, blooming algae paths, and floating feathers. Her photographs and video works form a growing archive that she views as an ecosystem; it contains moments that live, interact, and function as a whole. She actively uses this archive to find new associations and meanings, resulting in images with a sense of ease.