Jody Pinto (b. 1942, New York, NY) lives and works in New York City and is internationally recognized for her creative integration of art into architecture and landscape, completing over fifty collaborative projects since 1975. They include a wide range of master-planning, functional elements, landscape interventions, free standing, and integrated structural elements.
Pinto has received numerous awards and grants including the NEA; Federal Design Achievement Award; National Design for Transportation Award; A.I.A. Honor Award “Art in Public Spaces", and two National ASLA Design Honor Awards. While living in Philadelphia from 1971 to 1974, Jody Pinto founded and directed Women Organized Against Rape (WOAR), a grass-roots organization that transformed Philadelphia’s institutions. Today WOAR is a major contributor in the fields of education, law and prosecution.
Her drawings are in numerous private and public collections, including the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City; the National Gallery of Art and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.; Des Moines Art Center in Iowa; the Denver Art Museum; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, amongst others.