Suzan Pitt (1943-2019) was an American painter and filmmaker who lived and worked in Europe, Mexico, New York, and Los Angeles. Her short film Asparagus premiered in an installation at the Whitney Museum in 1979 and ran for two years with David Lynch’s Eraserhead in the midnight shows at the Waverly Theater and the NuArt theater in Los Angeles. A retrospective of Suzan Pitt’s prize-winning animated films was presented in 2017 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Her paintings and films are in the permanent collections of the Walker Art Center, The Museum of Modern Art, The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles. Her animated films have been featured at hundreds of prestigious venues worldwide.
