Zanatta Editions and Renée Stout have collaborated on more than a dozen projects from 1998 to the present, producing more than fifty editioned prints, photographs and neon sculpture, and dozens of unique monotypes. The partnership has produced some of the iconic images within Stout’s body of work (works now found in numerous museum collections), such as the lithographs “A Vision I Can’t Forget” and “Marie Laveau,” the “Red Room at Five” and “The Return” photoworks, and the “I Can Heal” neon sculpture.

Renée Stout was born in Junction City, Kansas and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University. She has lived and worked in Washington, DC, for decades, where she has become a fixture of the arts community. Finding inspiration in African cultural roots and African-American traditions, she also does not shy away from contemporary issues. Stout creates sculpture, paintings, installations, drawings, photographs and prints, deftly using whatever medium seems appropriate for her artistic vision.

Renée Stout signs completed impressions of her “Alchemy of Healing” color lithograph at her Washington, DC studio in December, 2019.