Thalia Pierre is currently an undergrad attending the University of Michigan for a degree in Art and design and a minor in entrepreneurship. Her practice is rooted in painting and textile-based work. Her work, guided by an interest in perception and layered meaning, examines how identity constructs itself through social, cultural, and personal frameworks.

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Working through processes of layering, she creates compositions where multiple perspectives coexist at once. These visual layers reflect the ways that perception is built, distorted, and reshaped over time. Her work invites close attention, asking viewers to move beyond surface-level interpretation and engage with the complexity beneath what is immediately visible.

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Her practice has recently grown to include textile work, such as clothes that have been dyed with bleach. In these pieces, layering becomes both additive and subtractive, as the bleaching process introduces unpredictability and transformation. These works extend her visual language beyond the canvas, positioning clothing as a site where identity, process, and material interact.

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Across mediums, her work is concerned with how environments and experiences shape the way we see ourselves and others. She is interested in the tension between internal experience and external perception and how meaning is formed through both.

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