Education

2001 - 2004

Monash University, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting)

2013

Monash University, Graduate Diploma of Education (Secondary)

Selected Exhibitions

2025

Midsumma and Australia Post Art Award, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne

2015
New Age Totems, Bus Projects, Melbourne

2013
Merrang, Boom Gallery, Newtown, Victoria

2012
Forest-s, Boom Gallery, Newtown, Victoria

2012
It’s not the bullet that kills you (It’s the hole), (Collaboration with Andrew Atchison), First Draft Gallery, Surry Hills, Sydney

2009
Anchor Tattoo, Motorworks Gallery, Melbourne Grammar, South Yarra

2008
My Metaphorical Asshole and Other Drawings, First Draft Gallery, Surry Hills, Sydney

2007
Wallpaper Wars, Off The Curb Gallery, Collingwood, Melbourne

2006
Were You There? (Collaboration with Andrew Atchison) Next Wave Festival; Missing Link Records, Central Station Records and Metropolis Books and Music, Melbourne

2006
Feminist Actions, Next Wave Festival, Spacement Gallery, Melbourne

Awards and Residencies

2025

Midsumma and Australia Post Art Award, Bundoora Homestead Art Prize Winner

Collections

Various private collections

Pia de Bruyn is a visual artist and educator working across the mediums of drawing, painting, film and sculpture.

Born in 1982 in Meanjin (Brisbane) Australia, Pia currently lives and works on coastal Wadawurrung country (Victoria). She has maintained a visual arts practice since 2006 and has been included in numerous group exhibitions and appeared in local and interstate publications. She was recently selected as a recipient of the 2025 Nancy Fairfax Artist in Residency at the Tweed Regional Gallery and Margaret Olley Art Centre in Northern NSW.

She has taught Visual Art and Sculpture for over 10 years, and is currently the co-Head of Art in Geelong, Victoria. In 2023 she assisted in the coordination of the Wadawurrung Country Project. This involved Arts students learning about First Nations content and applying their knowledge to create artworks that told the story of Bunjil the creator spirit. Working closely with Wadawurrung Elders, student’s artworks were developed into a Wadawurrung Aboriginal Traditional Owners Corporation (WATOC) approved book. This book was published as a stunning educational resource, written and illustrated by students, for students, to accompany their First Nations learning. Included in this project was their participation in the creation of two murals on school grounds, with award-winning Wadawurrung artist Billy-Jay O’Toole.

Image @ Billy-Jay O’Toole