Deanna Pizzitelli (b. 1987) is a Canadian artist. 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 was shortlisted for the 1854 x Leica Witnesses of: Individuality commission, as well as the 2019 Encontros da Imagem: Emergentes award (PT).
Pizzitelli is a recipient of the 2018 Scotiabank New Generation Photography Award (CA). This culminated in an exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, and the OCADu Onsite Gallery in Toronto, part of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival.
Pizzitelli has attended residencies in Canada, Iceland, Portugal, Germany, Finland and Sweden. She won the Residency Bursary at Landskrona Foto as part of the 2021 PHmuseum Photography Grant.
Pizzitelli is represented by Stephen Bulger Gallery (CA). Her work is in the collections of the Archive of Modern Confluct (UK) and the Center for Creative Photography (US).
