Biography
Artist and curator Andrew Mroczek received his BFA in photography from The Art Institute of Boston and an MFA in Visual Arts from the Lesley University College of Art and Design. Mroczek maintains a solo interdisciplinary studio practice focusing on themes of power structures and dynamics, sex, and sexuality. Additionally, his collaboration with artist Juan Jose Barboza-Gubo (Barboza-Gubo & Mroczek) focuses on themes of masculinity, sexuality, gender, gender-identity, and the effects of patriarchy as a social system.
Mroczek’s work has been exhibited widely including solo exhibitions at the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Lima, Peru (Museum of Contemporary Art); Museum of Sex, New York; Lugar de la Memoria, Lima, Peru (Museum of Remembrance); Centro Cultural de España, Lima, Peru (Cultural Center of Spain); Chicago's Schneider Gallery; and Houston's McClain Gallery; as well as group exhibitions in the US, Cuba, Bolivia, India, and Venice, Italy. His work has been featured in numerous online and print publications including Artnet, the Huffington Post, Musée, Paper Magazine, VICE/Broadly, New York Magazine, the Advocate, Lenscratch, The Houston Press, El Comercio Peru, Artsy, and PRI's The World.
Permanent collections include the RISD Museum, RI; Lugar de la Memoria, Lima, Peru; The Bill Arning Gay Art Collection, Houston, TX; FOTOMUSEO, Museo Nacional de la Fotografía de Colombia, Bogota; and the book collections at Harvard University, Stamford University, Princeton University, and MoMA, New York.
Andrew Mroczek is the Director of Exhibitions at the Lesley University College of Art and Design, and adjunct faculty at Northeastern University and the Massachusetts College of Art & Design (MassArt).
Andrew Mroczek
andrew.mroczek@gmail.com • www.AndrewMroczek.com • www.BarbozaGubo-Mroczek.com
Education
Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts, Lesley University, College of Art and Design, Cambridge, MA
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography, The Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA
Select Solo Exhibitions
Momias de los Cóndores, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA, June 2023
Fantastic Imaginary Use, Gravedigger’s Daughter, Waldoboro, Maine, October 2021
Bienal Internacional de Fotografía: Virgenes de la Puerta, Museo Colonial, Bogotá, Colombia, May 2019
Virgenes de la Puerta, Inter Kultur Foto Art, Instituto Francés de Stuttgart, Germany, 2019
Canon: 3-site exhibition curated by Juan Peralta, Lima, Peru, 2018:
Virgenes de la Puerta, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima, Peru
Padre Patria (Fatherland) & Las Orquídeas, Museo Lugar de la Memoria, Lima, Peru
Los Chicos, Centro Cultural de España en Lima, Lima, Peru
Canon (Virgenes de la Puerta, Padre Patria, Anda, Los Chicos), Curated by Lissa Rivera, Museum of Sex, New York, NY, October 19, 2017 - January 15, 2018
Canon, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito, Ecuador, June 28 - August 27, 2017
Fatherland, Wagner Gallery, New York University, New York, NY, December 6, 2016 – March 7, 2017
Virgenes de la Puerta, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL, November 4 – December 30, 2016
Canon (Virgenes de la Puerta & Fatherland), McClain Gallery, Houston, TX, March 19 - May 14, 2016
Los Chicos, AS220, Providence, RI, March 5 - 26, 2016
Select Group Exhibitions
Concerted Negotiations, Lesley University College of Art and Design, Cambridge, MA, 2022
Good As You, Fundación Francis Naranjo, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, España, 2020
Sur es Sur, Galeria Enlance Arte Contemporáneo, Lima, Peru, August 17 - October 18, 2019
PRIED, Curated by Izzy Berdan and Dave J. Bermingham, Society of Arts + Crafts, Boston, MA, April 25 - June 30, 2019
Sanctuary, The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, NY, February 14 - June 30, 2019
One in Three: Comparative Perspectives on Gender Violence, Curated by Sonia Perez Villanueva and Meenakshi Chhabra, Lunder Arts Center, Lesley University College of Art & Design, Cambridge, MA, November 1 - December 2, 2018
Reimagining Gender: Voices, Power, Action, Main Gallery, University of Rhode Island, September - October, 2018
La Mística del Cuerpo, Curated by Samuel Hernández Dominicis & Inés Ortega-Márquez, Museo Nacional de Arte, La Paz, Bolivia, May 23 - June 24, 2018
SANDESH: India's First Photography Festival for Transgender Communities, Curated by The Kitab, Dehradun & Chandigarh, India, April - June 2018
2018 RISCA Fellowship Exhibition, Main Gallery, University of Rhode Island, March 2018
La Noche de Las Gardenias, Curated by Giuliana Vidarte, with artists Christian Bendayán, Giuseppe Campuzano, Juan Carlos Goicoechea, and Natalie Revila; MicroMuseo, Lima, Peru, July 6 - August 7, 2017
La Mística del Cuerpo, Curated by Samuel Hernández Dominicis & Inés Ortega-Márquez, Pabellón Cuba, La Habana, Cuba, July - August, 2017
En el País de las Amazonas: 150 Años de Fotografía, Curated by Christian Bendayán & Manuel Cornejo, El Centro Cultural Británico de Lima, Peru, April - May, 2017
Observance: As I See You, You See Me, Curated by Leonie Bradbury, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA, January 17 - April 8, 2017
Language Product, Boston Arts Academy, Boston, MA, October 6 - November 18, 2016
22nd Annual Juried Exhibition: Peter Urban Legacy, (Juror: Elizabeth Avedon), Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, July 7 - August 28, 2016
Arte Laguna, Arsenale, Venice, Italy, March 2016
Off the Fridge, Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, Boston, MA, January 21 - February 21, 2016
Gendered Perspectives, Hartmann Gallery, Bradley University, Peoria, IL (Jurors: Margaret LeJeune & Jess T. Dugan), November/December 2015
Makeover, sübsamsøn / Samson Projects, Boston, MA, October 7 - 24, 2015
Kinsey Institute Exhibition, The Grunwald Gallery of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, May 15 - July 11, 2015
Breaking Ground, Lesley University College of Art and Design, Cambridge, MA (Juror: Andrew Witkin, Director, Barbara Krakow Gallery), February 2015
North-Northeast, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT (Juror: Richard Klein, Exhibitions Director, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum), January 2015
Publications
FATHERLAND | PADRE-PATRIA, monograph; Daylight Books, hardcover, English & Spanish, published January 7, 2020
Photoworks UK, Annual #24, Introduction & Essay by Bonnell Robinson, 2017
En el País de las Amazonas: 150 Años de Fotografía, Asociación Cultural Peruano Británica, 2017, hardcover, Spanish
Fatherland Exhibition Catalog, Wagner Gallery, New York University, December 2016
The Peter Urban Legacy Exhibition Catalog, Griffin Museum of Photography, July 2016
Ricarts, Issue 1, May 2015; Icon: Redux/Revision, Defying the Patriarchy in Los Chicos and Virgenes de la Puerta
10° Arte Laguna, Exhibition Catalog, March 2016; hardcover, Italian and English
Lectures & Panel Discussions
DePaul University, Fatherland: Culture, Violence, and the Peruvian Landscape, Chicago, IL, May 2023
Boston College, Currents Presents: Vising Artist Series, Lecture: Empathy as Subtext, April 2023
The Center: The LGBT Center NYC, Fatherland: Culture, Violence, and the Peruvian Landscape, March, 2021
Rhode Island School of Design, Lecture: MA Program in Global Arts and Culture, Course: Politics and Ethics of Representation, Dr. Jung Joon Lee, April 2020
Bowdoin Art Museum, Lecture: Fatherland: Culture, Violence, and the Peruvian Landscape, February 2020
Photographic Resource Center, Boston, Lecture: Fatherland: Culture, Violence, and the Peruvian Landscape, February 2020
La Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lecture: Master’s Program, Department of Gender Studies, Course: Visual Culture and Feminism, July 6, 2017
The Griffin Museum of Photography, Lecture: PhotoSynthesis XII, February 3, 2017
New York University; Panel discussion: Fatherland: LGBTQIA Human Rights in Latin America & Beyond, Panelists include Fabrice Houdart, Human Rights Officer at The United Nations; Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, Associate Professor of Sociology at American University; Nahal Zamani, Advocacy Program Manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights; and moderator Claudia Sofia Garriga-Lopez, from NYU's Department of Social & Cultural Analysis. December 6, 2016
Rhode Island School of Design, Lecture: Department of History of Art and Visual Culture, Course: Identity in Flux: Photo Portraiture from Daguerreotype to Selfie, Dr. Jung Joon Lee, November, 2015
Brown University, The Watson Institute, Panel discussion: Creative Activism: Art & Social Justice, September 2015
Awards & Accolades
2022 Visual Arts Fellowship, Somerville Arts Council
2019 Fellowship in Photography from the Mass Cultural Council
2018 Nominee & Finalists, COCA Prize, Center for Contemporary Artists, Italy
2018 Nominee: Best Photography Exhibition for CANON: Virgenes de la Puerta at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima; The LUCES Awards of El Comercio
2018 Photolucida Critical Mass: Top 50
2018 Finalists, ICPNA Contemporary Art Prize (Premio de Arte Contemporáneo ICPNA); Juror: Max Hernández, curator
2018 Fellowship in Photography, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts
2017 Visual Arts Fellowship, Somerville Arts Council
Top Ten Exhibitions of 2016: Canon at McClain Gallery, Art Ltd. Magazine
2016 Best in Photography: Virgenes de la Puerta, Advocate Magazine
2016 Photolucida Critical Mass: Finalists
2015 Faculty Research Grant, Rhode Island College: Virgenes de la Puerta (Phase III)
2014 Faculty Research Grant, Rhode Island College: Virgenes de la Puerta (Phase I)
2014 Faculty Development Grant, Lesley University: Virgenes de la Puerta (Phase I)
Collections
The RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Lugar de la Memoria (Museum of Remembrance), Lima, Peru
The Bill Arning Gay Art Collection, Houston, TX
Book Collections at:
Harvard University
Stamford University
Princeton University
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Professional Experience
Director of Exhibitions, 2018-Present
Lesley University College of Art and Design
Associate Director of Exhibitions, 2000-2018
Lesley University College of Art and Design
Exhibitions Consultant & Coordinator, Department of Graduate Studies, 2004-Present
Lesley University College of Art and Design
Professional Affiliations
The Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge, MA
Advisory Board Member: 2007-2013
Grant Panelist, Visual Arts: 2012
Grant Panelist, Visual Arts: 2009
Grant Panelist, Visual Arts: 2007
Camera Eye Workshops, Somerville, MA
Advisory Board Member; 2007-2017