Andrea Modica was born in New York City and lives in Philadelphia, where she works as a photographer and teaches at Drexel University. A graduate of the Yale School of Art, she is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fulbright Scholar and the recipient of a Knight Award.

Her books include Treadwell (Chronicle Books), Minor League (Smithsonian Press), Barbara (Nazraeli), Human Being (Nazraeli), Fountain (Stinehour Editions), l’Amico del’Cuore (Nazraeli), As We Wait (L’Artiere Editions), Lentini (Kris Graves Projects), January 1 (L’Artiere Editions), Reveal (Yoffy Press), 2020 (TIS Books), Theatrum Equorum (TIS Books), Catholic Girl (L’Artiere Editions) and Italian Story (L’Artiere Editions).

Andrea Modica’s photographs have been featured in many magazines, including the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Newsweek and American Photo. Her solo exhibitions include 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 numerous institutions, including 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 ICP, 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.