Discipline: Visual Art – photography

Pia-Paulina Guilmoth

Discipline: Visual Art – photography
Region: Hopkinton, NH
MacDowell Fellowships: 2022

Pia-Paulina Guilmoth lives in rural New Hampshire and Maine on Penacook and Abenaki land. Her work is about queerness, family, rurality, myth, and her love of the natural world. Pia-Paulina's second monograph, titled At Night Gardens Grow, was released in the winter of 2021 by Stanley/Barker books and was sold out within a few weeks.

Pia-Paulina is currently taking photographs of deer, fox, birds, and other animals using a 4x5 camera, a hunting blind, a flash, and 100 feet of rope that's connected to the camera's shutter.

At MacDowell, Pia-Paulina spent each day in the darkroom creating both monochromatic and color analog prints using chemicals and organic matter. The work would be shown in exhibits in Richmond, VA, at Candela Gallery, and in Berlin at Kominek Gallery in 2023-2024, and published in a monograph with Stanley/Barker.

Studios

Nef

Pia-Paulina Guilmoth worked in the Nef studio.

Nef Studio, the first entirely new studio built after 1937, was donated by esteemed photographer, explorer, author, and MacDowell Fellow Evelyn Steffanson Nef in 1992. Endowed funds for the studio’s maintenance in perpetuity and an annual Fellowship for photographers were given in addition to funds for construction. Mrs. Nef said she had known about MacDowell all her…

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