Andrea Modica (born 1960, in Brooklyn, NY) is an American photographer and professor of photography at Drexel University.
Andrea Modica 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. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in many collections, such as The Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art,[1] the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY, the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C., and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.[2] Modica has received numerous grants including a Guggenheim Arts Fellowship in 1994 and a Fulbright-Hays Research Grant in 1990.[3] Modica has been published in Newsweek, Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, and other magazines as well as two monographs, Minor Leagues (1993) and Treadwell (1995). Modica taught photography at the State University of New York – Oneonta for thirteen years, as well as holding positions at Princeton University, Parsons School of Design, the State University of New York College at Purchase, and currently is a professor of photography at Drexel University.