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 am a Buffalo-based Ukrainian-American visual artist working across photography, collage, printmaking, writing, and archival practices. My work explores how collective memory, traditions, language, and community shape identity across generations and geographies. Through the lens of my Ukrainian-American experience, I consider how war, authoritarianism, immigration, and assimilation influence what people preserve, what they lose, and what they pass forward. I also integrate the reality of being a woman and mother into my work, exploring the pressures of passing on traditions and examining female archetypes.
My practice moves between photographing the world around me and working with existing images, documents, and family materials. I am interested in the relationship between personal memory and public history: how an ordinary photograph, a familiar landscape, or an inherited object can hold experiences that are absent from official accounts. Through research, editing, juxtaposition, and material experimentation, I mine my own memories and emotions and allow the materials to point toward the relevant historical and political content important to my work.
As I continue to explore new mediums such as printing on fabric and using my scanner as a tool, I am expanding my photographic and archival practice through experiments with embroidery, installation and collage at different scales. I also continue to write, experiment with text in my work, and develop my long term photography and editorial projects.
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