(b. 1987, Toronto, Canada)
Deanna Pizzitelli is a Canadian photo-based artist and educator. She completed her BFA at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada, and her MFA at the University of Arizona in Tucson, United States.
Deanna is a finalist for the Rencontres D’Arles: Louis Roederer Discovery Award, 2020. She is a recipient of the inaugural 2018 Scotiabank New Generation Photography Award. This culminated in an exhibition at the Canadian Photography Institute of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, and at the OCADu Onsite Gallery in Toronto, a Featured Exhibition of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival. In 2019, she was honoured to sit as a jury member for the same award.
Deanna has attended residencies in Canada, Iceland, Portugal and Finland. Her participation in the 2018 SÍM residency program in Reykjavík was generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. In 2019, her work was shown in “The Space Between,” a group exhibition at Julie Saul Gallery in New York. She was recently awarded the Beth Block Membership Honoraria from the Houston Center for Photography in Texas, and participated in the accompanying exhibition, Profound Movement (2019), juried by Shane Lavalette.
Deanna currently lives between Ottawa, Canada, and Bratislava, Slovakia.
