Deanna Pizzitelli

Photographer

Deanna Pizzitelli (b. 1987) is a Canadian artist and educator. She completed her BFA at Ryerson University (CA), and her MFA at the University of Arizona (US).   Pizzitelli’s “Koža, Women & Other Stories” is one of 10 projects of Les Rencontres d’Arles: Louis Roederer Discovery Award 2020 (FR), in which an endowment was shared amongst all finalists in solidarity. She was selected for the Jury’s Choice of the 2020 Prix Virginia (FR), and is a recipient of the 2018 Scotiabank New Generation Photography Award (CA).    Pizzitelli has attended residencies in Canada, Iceland, Portugal, Germany, Finland and Sweden. She was awarded the Residency Bursary at Landskrona Foto as part of the 2021 PhMuseum Photography Grant, additionally supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. In 2019, Pizzitelli was awarded the Beth Block Membership Honoraria from the Houston Center for Photography.   Pizzitelli is represented by Stephen Bulger Gallery (CA). Her work is in the collections of the Archive of Modern Conflict (UK) and the Center for Creative Photography (US). She currently lives and works in Bratislava (SK).