Suzan Pitt (1943 - 2019)
Suzan Pitt
Suzan Lee Pitt was an American film animator and painter, whose surreal, psychological animated films and paintings have been acclaimed and exhibited worldwide.
Throughout the 1980s Pitt designed animated projections for various theatrical projects, in particular two groundbreaking operas in Germany: The Magic Flute for the Staatstheater Wiesbaden in 1983 and The Damnation of Faust for the Staatsoper Hamburg in 1988. In addition, she created large-scale multimedia shows, including a collaboration with John Cage at Harvard University in 1976 and at the Venice Biennale in 1980.
Pitt's honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000, a Creative Capital Moving Image Award in 2005, a Rockefeller Fellowship, and three production grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. She received a retrospective screening at the Museum of Modern Art in 2017, and a Lifetime Achievement Award at Animafest Zagreb in 2019.
| Date and place of birt: | 11 july 1943, Kansas City, USA |
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| Date and place of death: | 16 june 2019, Taos, USA |
| Nationality: | USA |
| Period of activity: | XX, XXI century |
| Specialization: | Artist, Film producer, Graphic artist |
| Genre: | Mythological painting |
| Art style: | Surrealism, Contemporary art |
