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.

Is a visual storyteller whose work explores human behavior and our complex relationship with the natural world. Her photography examines themes of womanhood, identity, and the boundary between reality and
fantasy, focusing on women whose practices defy societal norms. Her work has been featured in prominent publications like Le Monde, CNN Photos, Vogue, NYT Lens Blog, and National Geographic, and exhibited nationally in Bilbao, Madrid, and Barcelona, as well as internationally in India, Switzerland, and Germany. Anton has received prestigious grants from organizations like Vegap, the Spain-US Foundation, EEAGrants, and the Provincial Council of Vizcaya.
In 2014, Anton was selected for the Joop Swart Masterclass by World Press Photo, and in 2017, she was awarded the PhotoEspaña Revelation Prize. In 2023, she received a nomination for the Foam Paul Huf Award.