Artist Bio

Andrea Wenglowskyj is a mixed media artist, photographer and writer. Her work explores how collective memory, traditions, language, and community are shaped by war, authoritarianism, immigration, assimilation, and diaspora through the lens of her own Ukrainian-American experience. Her work moves fluidly through photography, collage, printmaking, writing, and archival practices.

She earned her Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Tufts University, and her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from the SUNY New Paltz. She is the recipient of numerous grants, including a Fulbright Fellowship in Ukraine, where she traveled the country and explored Ukrainian culture through its contemporary artists and organizations. Her work has been published in the New York Times and NPR. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including CEPA Gallery, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Galerie Amu in Prague, and The Colorado Photographic Arts Center.

She is an alumna of Hunt Residencies and Mirabo Press’ Growing The WNY Print Community Program (Buffalo, N.Y.), The Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts (Ithaca, N.Y.), The Snowed In Residency at The Kirkland Arts Center/Garrett on the Green (Clinton, N.Y.), and Drop Forge & Tool (Hudson, N.Y.).

In 2025 she exhibited her work at the Women Street Photographers New York Annual at Artspace PS109 Gallery (New York, N.Y.), Hunt Art Gallery (Buffalo, N.Y.), Mirabo Press (Buffalo, N.Y), and she was an exhibiting artist for Portrait of Buffalo II at CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, N.Y. where she presented her solo exhibition, Anxiety of Amnesia. 

Her work was acquired for Erie County’s Small Works Collection. 

Andrea has held roles with the UBS Art Collection, Storefront for Art & Architecture, and has taught and lectured about photography and professional practices at institutions such as SMFA Boston and ICP. In 2012, she co-founded Kind Aesthetic, a creative agency based in Brooklyn, and DELVE, an educational and community platform that helped artists to tell their unique stories and establish a clear, genuine and powerful presence in the world.


She lives in Buffalo, N.Y. with her husband and two children and works as a freelance editorial and commercial photographer.

Artist Statement

I explore how collective memory and community are shaped by war and authoritarianism in relation to my own Ukrainian-American experience. I am interested in the power of shared experiences and the meaning of belonging. My multidisciplinary practice encompasses documentary/straight digital and film photography, printmaking, collage, writing, social practice and the use of archival materials.

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