Pia Galvez is a practitioner of environmental arts and environmental architecture, specializing in site-specific installation, photography, and mixed media.
She is currently based in southern Europe.

In brief

I have participated in exhibitions and projects in the Americas and Europe.

My artworks have been shown in Sao Paulo, Madrid, Lisbon, Cambridge, Paris, Marseille, Venice, and Online venues and platforms headquartered in Brisbane, Australia; Los Angeles and New York, United States.
I feel as comfortable in large international exhibitions such as the Sao Paulo Biennial (2004), the Lisbon Architecture Triennale (2013), or the Venice Biennale (2023) as in artist-led projects.

My work has been supported by artist residencies, and I have received grants from 'Culture' programs funded by the European Commission or global ones like 'IAESTE'.

Additionally, I am a first-stage researcher and PhD candidate in Fine Arts addressing water, ocean, and climate change concerns. My ongoing artistic research is about 'Water and art practice in times of climate change and planetary boundaries' and derives from my body of work. These new in-progress research-creation projects and visual artworks are focused on the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans.
These case studies, which are conducted alongside coastal areas and communities, and have overarching multidisciplinary tensions in art-science and ecology-technology, include disparate topics, such as walking, embodiment, remote sensing, hazards, and Earth observation.

I started in 2010 to explore natural materials with low impact, such as straw bales, earth, timber, water, bamboo, and canes. After this period, I initiated in 2021 a new cycle about water (substance), climate change, and Earth observation + observation from Earth.

I am multilingual and communicate in English and Spanish. I also learned some Portuguese while working in Brazil and Portugal.