{ Mexico }
{ 1980 }
Pia Camil

Pia Camil lives and works in Mexico City. She has a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London. 

Her work has been exhibited internationally, with recent solo-exhibitions including Fuego Amigo, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, CDMX, Mexico (2024); Organismo Multi Orgásmico, Sultana Galerie, Paris, FR (2023); Nidos y Nudos, Blum & Poe Gallery, LA (2021), Three Works, Moca Tucson (2020),Laugh Now, Cry Later at OMR Gallery, Mexico City (2020); Here Comes The Sun, performance at Guggenheim Museum, New York (2019); Fade into Black: Sit, chill, look, talk, roll, play, listen, give, take, dance, share, Queens Museum, New York (2019); Bara, Bara, Bara, Tramway Art Space, Glasgow (2019) among others. 

Camil’s work is often done in a climate where kinship and the affective are proposed as a radical way of working in contrast to the highly individualized world. The subject matter of her work focuses on the rural / urban contexts with a formal yet critical dialogue with modernism.

( works )
Cuerpx insurrectx interespecie (serpiente)

Cuerpx insurrectx interespecie (serpiente)

Here comes the sun

Here comes the sun

Life

Life

Todes No.2

Todes No.2

bara, bara, bara

bara, bara, bara

Túnica para mujer

Túnica para mujer

Deshecha en hierba

Deshecha en hierba

Deshecha serpiente descolorida

Deshecha serpiente descolorida

Untitled

Untitled

Split Wall

Split Wall

No A Trio A

No A Trio A

Tlatelolco, Shot from a balcony

Tlatelolco, Shot from a balcony

Telón de Boca

Telón de Boca

Creede II Interior

Creede II Interior

Aurora Scarlet

Aurora Scarlet

Entre cortinas: abre, jala, corre

Entre cortinas: abre, jala, corre

( exhibitions )
TXT

TXT

DESHECHAS

DESHECHAS

Un paisaje nunca es inocente

Un paisaje nunca es inocente

( fairs )
Frieze LA 2023

Frieze LA 2023

arteBA 2014

arteBA 2014

Frieze New York 2015

Frieze New York 2015

Art Basel Miami Beach 2016

Art Basel Miami Beach 2016

Frieze New York 2016

Frieze New York 2016

Art Basel Miami Beach 2018

Art Basel Miami Beach 2018

Frieze New York 2018

Frieze New York 2018

( press )
Pia Camil’s Art About Global Commerce Made Her a Star. Now, She’s Turning Her Focus to Another Kind of Exchange—Between Humans and Other Species

Pia Camil’s Art About Global Commerce Made Her a Star. Now, She’s Turning Her Focus to Another Kind of Exchange—Between Humans and Other Species