photographed by Nolan Zunk
Edward Gia is an artist from New York, NY who is currently based in Austin, TX. His work maps the emotional terrain shaped by his Ecuadorian-Mexican American identity. Spanning family archives, self-portraits, marked texts, and slow gestures of care his practice stitches together diasporic memory and personal myth that traverses the liminal spaces between fiction and autobiography touching on migration, inheritance, and the ache of intergenerational silence. His work anchors themes of longing and resilience within the folds of the everyday through poetic image-making, installation, and archival layering forming layered constellations.
Their work has been featured in Photoville, Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio, The Lucie Foundation, among others. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a focus in Photography & Video from the School of Visual Arts (2020) and is currently pursuing his Master of Fine Arts degree in Studio Art at The University of Texas at Austin (2026).
Education
The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX)
Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art
2026
School of Visual Arts (New York, NY)
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography and Video
2020
(DIS)CONNECTED
School of Visual Arts
New York, NY
2020
Experimental Seeing: Russell Lee's Pedagogical Legacy
Visual Arts Center
Austin, TX
2026
Friends Fair
The Loren Hotel
Austin, TX
2026
Unrest
Springdale Station
Austin, TX
2026
Half a Second or Less
Visual Arts Center
Austin, TX
2026
Gathered Hours
Nashville Arcade Building
Nashville, TN
2026
Lost and Found
MASS Gallery
Austin, TX
2026
Interpersonal
Springdale Station
Austin, TX
2025
Kiez Love/Glimpse
Willam E. Doty Fine Arts Library
Austin, TX
2025
Resistance: Seen or Unseen
The Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts
Providence, RI
2025
The Ties That Bind
Der Greif
Berlin, Germany
2025
Field of View: Where All Horizons Meet
Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts
Lubbock, TX
2025
Cafecito: A Proclamation of Prescence
Photoville NYC
Brooklyn, NY
2025
Stories of Self-Portraiture
Sal-Pollak Atrium Gallery
Fullerton, CA
2024
Mapping Perspecctives
Throughline Collective
Houston, TX
2024
Counterpart
Ma’s House BIPOC Art Studio Inc.
Southampton, NY
2023
Anima Mundi-Visions
ItsLiquidGroup
Venice, Italy
2022
Free to Be
Culture Lab LIC at the Plaxall Gallery
Queens, NY
2022
Notions of Home
The Lucie Foundation
Los Angeles, CA
2021
Picture Library
School of Visual Arts
New York, NY
2020
2020 Visions
School of Visual Arts
New York, NY
2020
The Narrative Scale
School of Visual Arts
New York, NY
2020
There is No Person Without a World
School of Visual Arts
New York, NY
2020
Living in the Land of What Matters
Der Grief
Berlin, Germany
2025
Publications
Fieldwork Photo Journal
Issue 1: Gathered Hours
2026
Float Photo Magazine
Home is Where
2023
Fraction Media
Issue 157: 14th Anniversary
2022
Pearl Press
No. 7: Unorthodox
2021
Booooooom
Magic Hour
2021
Goldenrod Editions
Issue 02
2021
Changarrito
Mexic-Arte Museum
Austin, TX
2026
Artist Talks
We Are the People Who Leap in the Dark
New York University
New York, NY
2026
Workshops
Finding Your Audience: An Introduction to Marketing Your Photographs with Mary Virginia Swanson
La Luz Workshops (Scolarship Recipient)
2021
Circumferences of Self with Richard Renaldi and Special Guest Doug Dubois
La Luz Workshops (Scholarship Recipient)
2020
Career Services Professional Development Travel Scholarship
The University of Texas at Austin
2026
Department of Art and Art History Travel Support Scholarship
The University of Texas at Austin
2026
Carolyn Kay “Katy” Davis Centennial Memorial Scholarship Fund
The University of Texas at Austin
2025
Russell Lee Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Photography
The University of Texas at Austin
2024
William and Bettye Nowlin Endowed Presidential Fellowship in Photography
The University of Texas at Austin
2024
Chairman’s Merit Award
School of Visual Arts
2016
Collections
Mexic-Arte Museum
Austin, TX
School of Visual Arts
New York, NY