Edward Givis’ work explores sexuality and art history, as well as his upbringing in rural Upstate New York. For subjects, the artist chooses tools from hardware stores that suit his ideal proportions and renders these objects with a religious attention to detail usually associated with marketing. Drawing from his work in advertising, Givis creates direct works that focus on physical form and personal narrative—while simultaneously capturing a kind of subjective beauty and mortality.

Edward Givis was born in 1988 in Upstate New York. 

A solo exhibitions of Givis’ work have taken place at One Trick Pony in Los Angeles, California. Group exhibitions that have shown Givis’s work include: Fragments are the only forms I trust, curated by Louis-Philippe Van Eeckhoutte at White Columns Online; We Go Fast, curated by Ryan Travis Christian at Left Field Gallery in Los Osos, California; We Are The Ones at Carlsberg Byens Galleri & Kunstsalon in Copenhagen, Denmark; and Ghosts of Electricity at Smoke The Moon in Los Angeles, California.

In 2021, Givis was selected for the White Columns Curated Artist Registry. 

Givis lives and works in Southern California.