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Rachelle Mozman Solano (born 1972) is an American visual artist, photographer, and clinical psychoanalyst born in New York City. She currently works between New York and Panama. Mozman Solano's photographs and moving images simultaneously explore the relationship between narrative fiction and documentary and the ways that culture shapes the conditions behavior of individuals and environment. Her work is mainly concerned with the intersection of mythology, history, economics, and the psyche through photographs and videos that confound factual and fictional narrative.

Life and Career
Rachelle Mozman Solano was born and grew up in New York City to parents who immigrated from Panama. She earned a MFA in Photography from Tyler School of Art at Temple University and a BFA from Purchase College at SUNY. 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. She is currently teaching at School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University as a Professor of Photography since 2018.

As listed in the below, in 2019 Mozman Solano exhibited Metamorphosis of Failure at Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY, and in 2018 she exhibited El espejo opaco de Gauguin in Arteconsult, Panamá, Panamá. In 2017 she exhibited in A New Region of the World at Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków, Poland and LARA (Latin American Roaming Art), Panamá, Panamá. In 2016 Mozman Solano exhibited in the X Bienal Centroaméricana and in 2015 she exhibited in Do/Tell at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, and Portraiture Now: Staging the Self at Americas Society. In addition to exhibitions, Mozman Solano has been awarded residencies at LMCC workspace, Smack Mellon, The Camera Club of New York, and Light Work. Her work has been published in the Light Work annual Contact Sheet, Presumed Innocence, Exit magazine and numerous other publications.

Individual Exhibitions

 * 2019 Metamorphosis of Failure, Smack Mellon, New York, NY
 * 2018 El espejo opaco de Gauguin, Arteconsult, Panamá, Panamá
 * 2014 La Negra y su Pequeña, Voelker Orth Museum, Flushing, NY
 * 2013 La Negra y su Pequeña, The Camera Club of NY, New York, NY
 * 2012 Casa de Mujeres, Crtl+P, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL
 * 2010 Equivalent, Arteconsult, Panama City, Panama
 * 2010 Costa del Este, En Foco Traveling Exhibition program, Aguilar Library/NYPL, New York, NY
 * 2009 American Exurbia/Costa del Este, Festival Biarritz, Biarritz, France
 * 2009 Exurbia, Sol del Rio Arte Contemporánea, Guatemala City, Guatemala
 * 2006 Exurbia, Centro Cultural de España, Antigua, Guatemala
 * 2006 American Exurbia, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY
 * 2003 New Photographs, PH gallery, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions

 * 2019 How to Read a Banana: A screening with Rachelle Mozman Solano & Nicole Won Hee Maloof, (screening), SOHO20 gallery, Brooklyn, NY
 * 2019 Yes: Rachelle Mozman Solano/Ezra Wube, (screening) Microscope gallery, Brooklyn, NY
 * 2018 Humble Cats:Photoville Edition, Photoville, Brooklyn, NY
 * 2017 Panamá Expandida, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Panamá, Panamá
 * 2016 X Bienal Centroaméricana, Museo Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San Jose, Costa Rica
 * 2015 Do/Tell, Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA
 * 2014 Portraiture Now: Staging the Self, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
 * 2013 In the Zone, Station Independent Projects, New York, NY
 * 2012 You Are My Mirror, Athens Photo Festival, Ariadne Photo gallery, Athens, Greece
 * 2011 The (S) Files Bienal, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
 * 2010 Parábola: Una línea imaginaría entre mujeres fotógrafas, Centro Cultural España, San Salvador, El Salvador
 * 2009 Dialogues: Chapters of Latin American Art in the MOLAA Permanent Collection, MOLAA, Long Beach, CA
 * 2008 Numero Cero, 2nd Trienal Poligrafica de Puerto Rico y el Caribe, San Juan, Puerto Rico
 * 2007 Sutil Violencia, Instituto Cultural Itaõ, São Paulo, Brazil
 * 2006 IV Bienal Centroaméricana, San Salvador, El Salvador
 * 2005 Séptima Bienal de Arte Panamá, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Panamá, Panamá

Awards

 * 2019 Daynard Travel Fellowhsip
 * 2018 Neubauer Faculty Fellow
 * 2017 Latin American Roaming Art
 * 2016 NYC Film and Media Grant, Jerome Foundation
 * 2013 The Puffin Foundation
 * 2012 Critical Mass Photolucida, Top 50
 * 2012 Finalist, 86th International Competition in Photography, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
 * 2011 Lens Culture, 2nd Prize Winner
 * 2009 Prince Claus Award PARADA
 * 2001 First Prize, The Photo Review
 * 1998 Fulbright Fellowship Award