
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.