Lives and makes art in rural central Maine. Pia-Paulina Guilmoth is a working class trans woman who lives with her girlfriend and two cats. In her free time she likes to lay in the dirt, hold her friends, shoot guns, and trespass into abandoned houses and barns. The artist’s work is foremost about harnessing beauty as a form of resistance to a world full of terrors. Pia released her third book in November 2024 with Stanley/Barker titled Flowers Drink the River. Between 2024 and 2025 she has 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. From 2018 to 2021 she was the winner of the Fujifilm Young Talent Award, a Mass Cultural Council fellow in photography, and a finalist for the Aperture Portfolio Prize. In 2021 she released her second monograph with Stanley/Barker.