ANDREA MODICA
Bio + CV
Andrea Modica was born in New York City and lives in Philadelphia, where she works as a photographer and teaches at Drexel University. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fulbright Scholar and the recipient of a Knight Award.
Her books include Treadwell (Chronicle), Minor League (Smithsonian Press), Barbara (Nazraeli), Human Being (Nazraeli), Fountain (Stinehour Editions), l’Amico del’Cuore (Nazraeli), As We Wait (l’Artiere) now in its second edition, Lentini (KGP+), a collection of portraits of Mummer Wenches, titled January 1 (l’Artiere). Her most recent works include a book of photographs made at a horse clinic in Italy, titled Theatrum Equorum (Tis Books) and a series .of portraits of girls attending Catholic school, titled Catholic Girl (L’Artiere).
Her photographs have been featured in many magazines, including the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Newsweek and American Photo.
Modica has exhibited extensively and has had solo exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts.
Her photographs are part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the International Museum of Photography and Film at the George Eastman House, and the Bibliotheque Nationale.
All the photographs on this website and in Andrea Modica’s books are made with an 8X10” camera with Kodak Tri-x film. The final prints are platinum-palladium.
EDUCATION
1985 Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut
M.F.A. in Photography, presented Ward Cheney Award for Outstanding Achievement
1982 State University of New York College at Purchase, Purchase, New York
B.F.A. in Visual Arts and Art History, graduated with honors
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
2023 Unique Photo, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
L’Artiere, Bologna, Italy
2022 Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, Pennsylvania
2019 Galleria Biffi Arte, Piacenza, Italy
Episcopal Academy Crawford Center Gallery, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania
2018 Galerie Made’, Paris, France
Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa, Florida
Tilt Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona
2017 Art Museum at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
2016 Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio
Galerie Made’, Paris, France
Box Galerie, Brussels, Belgium
Galleria Monte di Pieta’, Savignano, Italy
2015 The Art Gallery at the Fulginiti Center, Denver, Colorado
Weber+Weber Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Mark Potter Gallery, Watertown, Connecticut
2014 Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Gallery 339, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2012 Gallery 339, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Alexander Salazar Fine Art, San Diego, California
Tilt Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona
2011 Alexander Salazar Fine Art, San Diego, California2010 Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa, Florida
Gallery 339, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2009 Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado
van Straatan Gallery, Denver, Colorado
Leonard Pearlstein Galley, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2008 Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, New York
2006 Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2005 Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California
G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Phototroph Gallery, Colorado Springs, Colorado
2004 Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, New York
Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, Pueblo, Colorado
2003 Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver, Colorado
University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming
Phototroph Gallery, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Museo Civico, Palazzo dei Censoli, Gubbio, Italy
2002 Cornell Museum, Delray Beach, Florida
Taylor Museum, Colorado Springs, Colorado
2001 Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, New York
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery, Syracuse, New York
1999 Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, New York
Palm Beach Photographic Center, Delray Beach, Florida
O’Sullivan Arts Center, Denver, Colorado
Foreman Gallery, Oneonta, New York
1998 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
1997 Houk Friedman, New York, New York
Palazzo d’Accursio, Museo Morandi, Bologna, Italy
1996 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida
Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1995 Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, California
1994 Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1993 Julie Saul Gallery, New York, New York
1992 Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Gallery 53, Cooperstown, New York
1991 Lieberman and Saul Gallery, New York, New York
Los Angeles Photography Center, Los Angeles, California
Portland School of Art, Portland, Maine
1989 The Center for Photographic Studies, Dallas, Texas
The State University of New York College at Oneonta, Oneonta, New York
1988 Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, Florida
The Light Factory, Charlotte, North Carolina
1987 Roxbury Gallery, Roxbury, New York
1986 Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
1985 Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut
1983 Photographics Gallery, New Canaan, Connecticut
1982 State University of New York College at Purchase, Purchase, New York
Andrea Modica
Catholic Girl
September 11 – XX, 2026
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OPENING RECEPTION
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X—X pm