Discipline: Visual Art

Pio Galbis

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1989, 1995

Pío Galbis was born in Havana, Cuba. He has had solo exhibits at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, the Matthew Kerr Gallery in New York and the Wessel O’Connor Gallery in New York, among others. He has been represented in various group shows, including exhibitions at the Drawing Center in New York, the Brooklyn Academy of Art and the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Galbis is the recipient of a traveling grant from the MacArthur Foundation and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, the Vermont Studio School and the Ford Foundation. He is the winner of a Barbara Chase Burke Memorial Drawing Award.

Studios

Alexander

Pio Galbis worked in the Alexander studio.

Originally designed to be a visual art gallery, this facility was built in memory of the late John White Alexander (1856-1915) and funded by Elizabeth Alexander and their son James. John White Alexander was highly regarded as a portrait painter and, in the early part of the 20th century, served…

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