Piper Huntington Olivas (b. 1997, New Mexico) is a Los Angeles-based artist whose practice moves restlessly between photography, film, found objects, writing, and mixed media. A graduate of California College of the Arts (2021), Olivas approaches the subject as something never quite settled - contingent on the spaces, structures, and historical and religious references that surround and press upon it.
Her work refuses fixed narrative. In its place, Olivas builds layered visual situations: fragments, symbols, and suggestions arranged into compositions that ask to be read and re-read rather than simply seen. Photography, for Olivas, is not a tool of documentation but a site of instability - an image continually disrupted and reassembled, where meaning slips and resettles, opening onto new intimacy, reverence, and distortion.
Beyond the studio, Olivas writes for White Hot Magazine and Medium, extending her investigative eye to the creative industries themselves - examining the structures, mythologies, and assumptions that shape contemporary cultural production.