Deanna Pizzitelli

(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.