On Thursday, October 8, we welcome Pia Paulina Guilmoth to "Meet the Artist." Pia will present selections from her three most recent books, as well as b-sides and unreleased material spanning the past 10 years of her career. She will have a selection of books and prints for sale throughout the evening.

Join us on select Thursday evenings at CPW for "Meet the Artist," when we host talks with local and visiting artists. The program allows the public to get to know new work, to hear about artistic processes, and to meet friends and other local artists. Coffee, tea, and snacks are served.

"Meet the Artist" is made possible by generous grants from the Arnold & Augusta Newman Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Pia Paulina Guilmoth lives and makes art in rural Maine. She works with a 4×5 camera and various experimental analogue techniques. Her work is foremost about beauty and her experience as a trans woman in the small town she lives in. Her work is held in the permanent collection of SFMOMA.

Pia released her third book in November 2024 with Stanley/Barker titled Flowers Drink the River, which received the Jury’s Special Mention for the 2025 Paris-Aperture Book of the Year award. In 2024–2025 she had two major solo exhibitions open—one in London (Webber Gallery) and one in New York (CLAMP). In 2024 she won a Google/Aperture Creator Labs grant and a Peter Reed Foundation grant in photography, and in 2022 she was a MacDowell Fellow in Visual Arts. Pia’s fourth book, a collaborative project with Jesse Bull Saffire, titled Fishworm, was published with Void at the end of 2025. In the spring of 2026 Pia presented at the Forum on Contemporary Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Pia’s out-of-print monograph from 2021, At Night Gardens Grow, was re-issued in the summer of 2026 with Stanley/Barker.

Event details may change. Confirm details on the official event website.