Andrea Modica

Andrea Modica studied at Yale University. The field of work recorded is photography. Employment is recorded with Drexel University. Work by Andrea Modica is recorded in the collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Smithsonian American Art Museum. Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship and Anonymous Was A Woman Award.

• Name — Andrea Modica • Birthplace — Brooklyn, New York, United States • Field — Photography • Awards — Guggenheim Fellowship, Fulbright-Hays Research Grant • Website — www.andreamodica.com

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.

Modica's most known work is Treadwell. 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. Chronicle Books published the work in book form in 1996. She continued to photograph Barbara until her death in 2001 from childhood diabetes. 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 As We Wait is a collection of previously unpublished portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and horses curated by Larry Fink in 2015 by Grafiche dell'Artiere, who also published January 1, portraits of Philadelphia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. 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. Real Indians combines first-person narratives by 37 Native American people with black and white photographic portraits of each person by Modica. 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. Modica photographed and filmed horses in post-operative anesthetic states in Theatrum Equorum published by TIS books in 2022.