Pia Massie

Pia Yona Massie is a multi-media artist, environmental activist, and teacher. Massie’s films and art have been exhibited in museums, festivals, and galleries throughout North America and Europe, including the Museum of Modern Art, Musée Cantonal des Beaux Arts, and grunt gallery. Massie's writing has appeared in DAMP: Contemporary Vancouver Media Art and Foret-Frontiere: Une Action Art / Nature, as well as The Bulletin, Adbusters, and Ricepaper magazines. Her work has received Canada Council and BC Arts Council grants, a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant, and numerous other awards. Pia has taught and mentored for over forty years, in gratitude to her early teachers, many collaborators and friends. This includes work at community centres and universities, outdoor environmental education, and film schools, kindergarten through graduate school, in three countries: Canada, the USA, and Japan. Originally raised in Brooklyn, New York she has now lived half her life on the West Coast, near the Pacific Ocean, in the city of her ancestors. She is deeply grateful to work and live in the Pacific Northwest unceded traditional lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

Pia Massie, 2023