BioPia-Paulina Guilmoth lives and makes art in rural central Maine. Pia is a working class transgender woman who lives with her girlfriend and two cats in a small tree-house-like space inside of a very old shoe factory on the bank of the Sandy River. In her free time she likes to lay in the dirt, shoot guns, hold her friends, and trespass into abandoned houses and barns. Pia’s work is foremost about harnessing beauty as a form of resistance to a world full of terrors. While making art she is thinking about class, gender, euphoria, dysphoria and whatever else is happening in her life at that given moment. Pia is releasing her third book in November 2024 with Stanley/Barker titled Flowers Drink the River. She is having her first major solo exhibition with Webber Gallery in London upon its release. She was a 2022 Macdowell Fellow in Visual Arts, and is a 2024 winner of the Google/Aperture Creator Labs, and the Peter Reed Foundation grant. She has another solo exhibition opening in Italy at Studio Faganel in spring of 2025.