Education
2001 - 2004
Monash University, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting)
2013
Monash University, Graduate Diploma of Education (Secondary)
Selected Exhibitions
2025
Female Trouble, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Victoria
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
Nancy Fairfax Artist in Residency, Tweed Regional Gallery and Margaret Olley Art Centre, Murwillumbah, NSW
2025
Winner, Bundoora Homestead Art Prize, Midsumma and Australia Post Art Award
Panels and Film Screenings
2025
Sally! Documentary and discussion panel, Platform Arts (Courthouse), Geelong
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 Meanjin Brisbane, she currently lives and works on coastal Wadawurrung Country in Victoria. Since graduating from Monash University in 2004 with a BFA in Painting, Pia has exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions, with her work held in private collections across Australia. Alongside her practice, she has worked in arts education since 2005 and has been teaching Visual Arts and Sculpture at a secondary level for over a decade.
She is a recipient of the 2025 Nancy Fairfax Artist in Residency at the Tweed Regional Gallery and Margaret Olley Art Centre in Northern NSW.