Suzan Pitt is an internationally acclaimed artist whose paintings and animated films are in many private collections and museums including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the Ludwig Museum in Germany. She has had major exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Stedlijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Venice Biennale. Pitt has designed sets and costumes for two major opera productions in Germany which were the first operas to include animated images for the stage. Suzan Pitt was perhaps the first artist to create one of a kind painted art coats beginning in 1984.