Pia Tuulia Cäbble was conceived in Denmark, born in Minneapolis, and raised between continents, belonging everywhere and nowhere at once. The daughter of a Scandinavian mother and an African-American father, she moved from the United States to Finland before the age of three, carrying within her a dual heritage that would one day become the backbone of her art.

By the time she was a teenager, Cäbble had become a nationally recognized dancer, performing on Finland’s prime-time television shows, touring the country, and appearing in magazines and newspapers. At thirteen she won the national dance championship, but her early fame coincided with a growing political and spiritual awakening. After encountering the brutal history depicted in Boys n the Hood, she sought out Roots and the writings of Black liberation movements, igniting a lifelong fascination with resistance, ancestry, and the global afterlives of oppression.

At sixteen, she left Finland alone to search for her father in the U.S., an act of courage that led her into foster care, then into early motherhood at nineteen. She completed high school while raising her daughter, earned a Bachelor of Science in Interior Design with honors, and bought her first home at twenty-one — only to sell it in order to travel.

For several years, Cäbble lived nomadically, moving through more than forty countries across Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean. She lived in India, London, Mexico City, and Puerto Rico. She joined a band, performed internationally, married twice, built and dismantled businesses, and learned to navigate spiritual traditions, artistic languages, and political landscapes far from home.

Her life became a study in duality: belonging and displacement, safety and risk, visibility and erasure, loss and reinvention.

When the pandemic dissolved her life in Puerto Rico, Cäbble returned to the United States and finally surrendered to the calling she had carried since childhood: painting. She moved to New York, secured a studio, and began her first full body of work, Conversations with the Dead, a twelve-part cycle and altar series examining humanity’s repeating patterns of oppression, persecution, and self-deception.

In her practice, Cäbble transforms hair, mosaic, textiles, papier-mâché, and ritual materials into narrative worlds that echo the arc of her own life; a journey through rupture, migration, identity, and the profound self-examination required to break generational cycles.