ABOUT
I came to art through a search for orientation.
Growing up between cultures, landscapes, and languages, I learned early that belonging is not always given and sometimes must be practiced. Movement shaped my perception of place and over time I became attentive to the subtle ways environments speak through texture, rhythm, silence, and trace. This attentiveness became the foundation of my work and the ground from which my artistic language continues to grow.
I am an artist working through drawing, writing, and situated artistic research. I hold an MA in Interrelational Artistic Practices from Hanze University of Applied Sciences. My approach is shaped by an East meets West sensibility where multiple knowledge systems, lived experiences, and ways of sensing coexist rather than compete. This intersection forms the philosophical core of my practice.
Rather than treating art as a means of producing objects, I approach it as a method for building relationships with land, memory, human presence, and more-than-human connections. My works often emerge slowly through observation, listening, and encounters that unfold across time. In this process drawing becomes a form of sensing and text becomes a space where experience gathers and resonates.
My practice moves between studio and field. I develop works within specific environments such as wetlands, urban edges, and shared landscapes where I explore how attention can reshape our relationship to place. Participation, when present, is a form of shared awareness. The work exists within the relation itself as much as in any visible outcome.
Publishing is another extension of this practice. Artist books, visual narratives, essays, poems, and small printed works function as portable sites of encounter. On a page image and language meet, pause, and listen to one another. These publications are not documentation but parallel spaces where research continues in another form.
CV
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Text
Elisabetta Cuccaro, Future, June 2023 (cataloque).
Lies Vanhauwere, Des fruits, des légumes … et de l’art, 05 January 2021 (article).
Petra Onderwater, Almere ‘the place to be’ voor Urban Sketchers, 20 January 2020 (article).
StrandLab, Het landschap eren met Zita Christie Pitoy, March 2022 (e-cataloque).
Zita Pitoy, Bhumiputri, and other earth elements, 2023 (monograph).
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Residency and Grants
Programme -maker Residency Strandlab, Almere.
March - November 2023
Veluwe Residency, Gelderland, August 2022
Kunstlinie Grant for Monument Day, Almere, 2022
Culturefonds Almere for National Sketch Day, 2021
European Culture Fonds for RecupeArt, Brussels, November 2020
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Projects and Exhibitions
Durational projects for public space:
Van Alle Talen Thuis
de Bibliotheek, Eindhoven
September 2024 - February 2025
Landscape breathing, soil sensing, and spirit offerings
Strandlab, Almere
March - February 2024
Expeditie Duin
Woonwijk Duin, Almere
April - May 2023
Party and Nature
Noon, Groningen
May, 2023
Monumentendag Ecowijk de Buitenkans
Kunstlinie, Almere
September, 2022
Rewilding Tasting
Oostvaardersplassen Nature Reserve, Flevoland
February 2021- Ongoing
Urban Sketchers Almere
2019 - Ongoing
RecupeArt
Culturegem, Brussels
November 2020
Ensemble Ouvert
Berlin
December 2020
Projects for exhibitions (a selection)
Future, Masters Graduation Show
De toekomst, Scheemda
June, 2023
Last year we didn’t even have a name
EMG Factory, Groningen
March 2022
Bloesem
Erfgoedhuis Almere
April 2021
Artists Pledge
De Balie, Amsterdam
December 2020
Kunstenaars in corona tijden
De Nieuwe Bibliotheek, Almere
October 2020