Andrea Modica

Modica was born in Brooklyn, New York. She earned her BFA in Visual Arts and Art History from State University of New York College (SUNY) at Purchase, Purchase, NY in 1982, and earned her MFA in Photography from Yale University in 1985.{{cn|date=August 2024}}

Modica's most known work is Treadwell.{{cite web|url=https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/andrea-modica|title=Andrea Modica|date=31 January 2018|website=International Center of Photography}} From 1986 to 2001, she staged and photographed a young girl named Barbara and her family in upstate New York with an 8x10 view camera, following the family from farmhouse to farmhouse in and around the town of Treadwell, New York.{{cite web |last=Hulin |first=Rachael |date=11 June 2008 |title=Words and Pictures: Treadwell |url=https://blog.photoshelter.com/2008/06/words-and-pictures-treadwell/ |website=PhotoShelter Blog}} Chronicle Books published the work in book form in 1996.{{cite web |date=2004 |title=Andrea Modica - Barbara, Treadwell, 1986-2001 |url=http://www.houkgallery.com/exhibitions/2004-03-04_andrea-modica/all/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018004001/http://www.houkgallery.com/exhibitions/2004-03-04_andrea-modica/all |archive-date=2014-10-18 |access-date=2014-05-09 |website=Edwynn Houk Gallery}}{{Cite book |last1=Modica |first1=Andrea |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32855514 |title=Treadwell |last2=Proulx |first2=Annie |publisher=Chronicle Books |year=1996 |isbn=978-0-8118-1118-7 |location=San Francisco, CA |oclc=32855514}} She continued to photograph Barbara until her death in 2001 from childhood diabetes.{{Cite web |date=2006 |title=Andrea Modica: From Treadwell to Fountain |url=https://www.edelmangallery.com/exhibitions-and-projects/exhibition-pages/2006/andrea-modica-from-treadwell-to-fountain.html |access-date=30 June 2022 |website=Catherine Edelman Gallery}} The work from the later period of Barbara's life was published by Nazraeli Press in 2004. Nazraeli Press also published Human Being, a series of 19th century human skulls that were unearthed at a mental hospital in Pueblo, Colorado.

As We Wait is a collection of previously unpublished portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and horses curated by Larry Fink in 2015 by Grafiche dell'Artiere , who also published January 1, portraits of Philadelphia Mummers in 2018.

Even before starting the series Best Friends, Modica had been photographing students at a high school in Connecticut, and she noticed that a friend was often present in the background of the photoshoots. She started photographing friends together in other high schools in Philadelphia and Modena, Italy.{{Cite web |date=2014 |title=Andrea Modica |url=http://www.blueskygallery.org/exhibition/andrea-modica/#1 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170214004711/http://www.blueskygallery.org/exhibition/andrea-modica/#1 |archive-date=2017-02-14 |access-date=2017-02-13 |website=Blue Sky Gallery}}

For Fountain, Modica documented the Baker Family in Fountain, Colorado for nine years. The family runs a small slaughterhouse. She photographed the inner workings of the farm and the intimate family moments.{{cite web |date=2008 |title=Andrea Modica - Fountain |url=http://www.houkgallery.com/exhibitions/2008-01-15_andrea-modica/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150310003845/http://www.houkgallery.com/exhibitions/2008-01-15_andrea-modica/ |archive-date=2015-03-10 |access-date=2014-05-09 |website=Edwynn Houk Gallery}}

Real Indians combines first-person narratives by 37 Native American people with black and white photographic portraits of each person by Modica.{{cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53288865|title=Real Indians: portraits of contemporary Native Americans and America's tribal colleges|first1=Andrea|last1=Modica|first2=Sherman|last2=Alexie|first3=Rebecca|last3=Carroll|first4=Suzette|last4=Brewer|date=9 March 2019|publisher=Melcher Media|oclc=53288865 |via=Open WorldCat}}

For Minor League, Modica photographed in Oneonta, New York and the New York Yankees' spring-training camp in Florida for a project on young ballplayers in 1993. She photographed the young athletes' anxieties, focusing on the minor league players who were hoping to go up.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/magazine/derek-jeter-a-yankee-before-the-pinstripes.html|title=Derek Jeter, a Yankee Before the Pinstripes|first=Jon|last=Kelly|date=19 September 2014|work=The New York Times}}

Modica photographed and filmed horses in post-operative anesthetic states in Theatrum Equorum published by TIS books in 2022.{{Cite web |title=Theatrum Equorum / Andrea Modica |url=https://www.tisbooks.pub/products/theatrum-equorum |access-date=2023-05-23 |website=TIS books |language=en}}

Modica taught photography at the State University of New York – Oneonta for thirteen years, and has also taught at Princeton University, Parsons School of Design, the State University of New York College at Purchase, and Colorado College.{{cite web |title=Andrea Modica: Barbara, Treadwell, 1986-2001 |url=http://www.houkgallery.com/exhibitions/andrea-modica-barbara-treadwell-1986-2001 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200829080720/http://www.houkgallery.com/exhibitions/andrea-modica-barbara-treadwell-1986-2001 |archive-date=29 August 2020 |website=Edwynn Houk Gallery}} She is currently a professor of photography at Drexel University.{{cite web |last=Gutierrez |first=Allyssa |date=4 February 2019 |title=Photographer Andrea Modica to speak, share expertise with students |url=http://www.dailynebraskan.com/culture/photographer-andrea-modica-to-speak-share-expertise-with-students/article_54076362-282b-11e9-a412-ef93b67fd56f.html |access-date=9 March 2019 |website=The Daily Nebraskan}}

• Minor League. Photographers at Work Series. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian. 1993. {{ISBN|156098290X}}.
• Treadwell. San Francisco: Chronicle. 1996. {{ISBN|0811811182}}. With an introduction by Maria Morris Hambourg and an essay by Annie Proulx.
• Human Being. Portland: Nazraeli. 2001. {{ISBN|1590050061}}. With a foreword by Modica and "Anthropological Descriptions" by J. Michael Hoffman.
• Andrea Modica: At The Edge Of Fiction. Light Work. 2001. {{ISBN|093544520X}}.
• Barbara. Portland: Nazraeli, 2002. {{ISBN|1590050878}}. With a foreword by Modica. 2002
• Real Indians. New York: Melcher. 2003. {{ISBN|0971793514}}. With an introduction by Sherman Alexie.
• Fountain. Lunenburg, VT: Stinehour, 2008. With an afterword by Modica.
• L'Amico del Cuore. Portland: Nazraeli, 2014. {{ISBN|978-1-59005-405-5}}.
• As We Wait. Italy: Grafiche dell'Artiere. 2015. {{ISBN|978-8887569537}}. With an introduction by Larry Fink.
• January 1, Italy: Grafiche dell'Artiere, 2018. {{ISBN|9788887569568}}
• Lentini, Kris Graves Projects, Queens, NY, 2019
• 2020, TIS books, Brooklyn, NY, 2020. {{ISBN|9781943146260}}
• Theatrum Equorum, TIS books, Brooklyn, NY, 2022. ISBN 9781943146314

• 1990: Fulbright-Hays Research Grant{{Cite web |title=Andrea Modica |url=http://www.edelmangallery.com/modica-bio.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081211013913/http://www.edelmangallery.com/modica-bio.htm |archive-date=11 December 2008 |website=Catherine Edelman Gallery}}{{Better source|date=July 2022}}
• 1993: Guggenheim Arts Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation{{cite web|access-date=2022-07-01|title=Andrea Modica|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/andrea-modica/|website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation}}
• 2010 Anonymous Was A Woman Award{{Cite web |title=Environmental Art Grant |url=https://www.anonymouswasawoman.org/new-page |access-date=2023-05-23 |website=Anonymous Was A Woman |language=en-US}}
• 2015: John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Award{{Cite web |title=Knight Foundation Awards 2022 Arts + Tech Fellowship to Five Visionary Artists |url=https://knightfoundation.org/press/releases/knight-foundation-awards-2022-arts-tech-fellowship-to-five-visionary-artists/ |access-date=2023-05-23 |website=Knight Foundation |language=en-US}}

Modica's work is held in the following permanent collections:

• Museum of Modern Art: 1 print (as of 1 July 2022){{cite web|access-date=2022-07-01|title=Andrea Modica - MoMA|url=https://www.moma.org/artists/36606|website=The Museum of Modern Art}}
• Metropolitan Museum of Art: 12 prints (as of 1 July 2022){{cite web|access-date=2022-07-01|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search?q=Andrea+Modica&sortBy=Relevance&pageSize=0|website=www.metmuseum.org|title=Search The Collection: 12 results for Andrea Modica}}
• Whitney Museum of American Art: 3 prints (as of 1 July 2022){{cite web|access-date=2022-07-01|title=Andrea Modica|url=https://whitney.org/artists/4684|website=whitney.org}}
• Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.: 5 prints (as of 1 July 2022){{cite web|access-date=2022-07-01|title=Andrea Modica - Smithsonian American Art Museum|url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/andrea-modica-3367|website=americanart.si.edu}}
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: 4 prints (as of 1 July 2022){{cite web|access-date=2022-07-01|title=Modica, Andrea|url=https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/andrea-modica/|website=SFMOMA}}

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• {{Official website|www.andreamodica.com}}

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