Rachelle Mozman Solano

Rachelle Mozman Solano was born and grew up in New York City to parents who immigrated from Panama.[3] She earned a MFA in Photography from Tyler School of Art at Temple University and a BFA from Purchase College at SUNY.[3] As her artworks deeply engage in clinical psychoanalysis, she also has 12 years of psychoanalytic training from the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, New York, and has worked as a clinical psychoanalyst from 2010 to 2017.[3] She is currently teaching at School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University as a Professor of Photography since 2018.[4][5]

Mozman Solano's artistic practice explores how mythology, history, the psyche, and economics overlap. Her photographs and videos play with narrative, challenging perceptions of what is factual or fictional.[6] Her 2018 project Metamorphosis of Failure was inspired by a 2014 MoMA exhibition of the works of Paul Gauguin. Mozman Solano explored Gauguin's interest in racial purity against his biracial background, as well as the role of the museum in shaping cultural perceptions of him.[7] This project also engages with a feminist critique by creating images of Gauguin's muses and their poses.[8][9]

Mozman Solano has been awarded residencies at LMCC workspace, Smack Mellon, The Camera Club of New York, and Light Work, as well as a Fulbright Fellowship.[2] Her work has been published in the Light Work annual Contact Sheet, Presumed Innocence, Exit magazine and numerous other publications.[2]

• 2018 Neubauer Faculty Fellow[38]
• 2017 Latin American Roaming Art[39]
• 2016 NYC Film and Media Grant, Jerome Foundation[40]
• 2013 The Puffin Foundation[21]
• 2012 Critical Mass Photolucida, Top 50[41]
• 2012 Finalist, 86th International Competition in Photography, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA[42]
• 2011 Lens Culture, 2nd Prize Winner[43]