BIA GAYOTTO is a multimedia artist and curator who lives/works in The Sea Ranch and Los Angeles, California. Her interdisciplinary practice includes photography, books, film and video art installations. Rooted in observation, collaboration, and site-responsive research, Gayotto’s “place-based” projects reveal the subtle and unseen networks—ecological, cultural, and emotional—that shape our shared environments. Her recent works seek to make the invisible visible, deepening our relationships with the natural world.
Gayotto earned an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1996. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); Pasadena Museum of California Art; Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA); The Breeder Project (Athens), and Museum of Image and Sound (São Paulo). Her artworks are held in private and public collections such as LACMA, LAX, UCLA’s Grunwald Center, Caltech (Pasadena), Museum of Contemporary Art (São Paulo), among others.
She has been recognized with awards including the City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A) Fellowship, Investing in Artists Grant from Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI), Artists' Resource for Completion grants (ARC), and Individual Artist Grants from the Pasadena Cultural Affairs. Influenced by site-specific and community-engaged art practices, her projects often emerge from artistic residencies around the world, including the Banff Centre (Canada); Threewalls (Chicago); AIR Taipei (Taiwan); Lucas Artist Fellow at Montalvo Arts Center (Saratoga), and the Sacatar Institute (Bahia, Brazil).
Gayotto's curatorial work extends from her own artistic research, including the exhibitions Between Two Worlds (Cal State LA), PlaceBound (Woodbury University), Somewhere in Between (Cal Poly Pomona), Latitude 33˙56¨ (LAX) and Bahia Reverb: Artists and Place (Art+Practice in partnership with CAAM). She has taught at Art Center College of Design (Pasadena), Cal State LA University, and University of Southern California.
