Pia-Paulina Guilmoth

Pia Paulina Guilmoth lives and makes art in rural central Maine. In her free time she likes to lay in the dirt, hold her friends, shoot guns, and trespass into abandoned houses and barns. Using a 4x5 camera, and various analogue techniques; Pia makes work about being trans, her search for beauty in community and nature, and the small town she calls home. Pia released her third book in November 2024 with Stanley/Barker titled Flowers Drink the River which is shortlisted for the 2025 Paris-Aperture Book of the Year award. In 2024 / 2025 she had two major solo exhibitions open in London, and New York City with CLAMP Gallery, and Webber Gallery. In 2024 she won a Google/Aperture Creator Labs grant, and a Peter Reed Foundation grant in photography. In 2022 she was a MacDowell Fellow in Visual Arts.