Lucia Rollow
Lucia Rollow is a photographer, educator, and arts organizer who founded Bushwick Community Darkroom in 2011. After graduating with a BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, she found herself without affordable access to a darkroom and began building one of her own. What started as a single-occupancy black-and-white darkroom grew into a 4,000-square-foot community photography center offering color and black-and-white darkrooms, film processing, classes, exhibitions, and workspace for thousands of photographers.
Lucia directed Bushwick Community Darkroom for fifteen years, developing it into an important home for accessible film photography and arts education in Brooklyn. The darkroom closed permanently on June 30, 2026. Lucia is now returning her attention to her own photographic practice while recovering, regrouping, and building what comes next.
She holds an MPS in Arts and Cultural Management from Pratt Institute. Her artwork has been exhibited at Storefront Gallery, Animamus Art Salon, Spread Art Detroit, and Brooklyn Fire Proof Gallery, and her work as an artist and organizer has been featured by Artnet, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Paper, Bedford + Bowery, and Square Capital.
Original, one-of-one silver gelatin photographs are currently available in the Print Shop.
Lucia Rollow - Resume/CV
EDUCATION
Pratt Institute September 2013-May 2015
Masters of Professional Studies – Arts & Cultural Management 3.8 GPA
School of Visual Arts September 2005-May 2009
Bachelors of Fine Arts – Photography
EXPERIENCE
Bushwick Community Darkroom - Founder November 2010 – June 30, 2026
• Book, curate, promote and produce monthly visual art exhibitions, landing reviews in publications including The Village Voice.
• Founder and director of one of Brooklyn's only analog photography spaces, occupying a 3,000 square foot warehouse which features numerous hands-on workshops on a monthly basis.
• Manage team of employees, volunteers and members numbering over thirty.
Arts in Bushwick – Core organizer December 2010 - August 2015
• Co-lead organizer of an annual free, public art festival which drew up to 10,000 visitors per weekend and landed long-form reviews in The New York Times several years in a row.
• Scheduled and hosted volunteer team meetings, establish and maintained production timeline for an in-depth exhibition listing brochure, coached to up to 2,000 visual artists in Brooklyn per year on best practices.
RESIDENCIES
• Tortuga Escondida, Akumal, Mexico, 2020
• Art & Soul, Truth or Consequences, NM, 2019
• Rensing Center, Pickens, SC November 2015
• Newport Art House, Newport, RI August 2015
• Spread Art Detroit – Detroit, MI, August 2014
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
• Joshua Tree - Sierra Club Gallery, Boston MA, December 2019
• So I’m Having an Art Show - LESpace, New York, NY, January 2015
• “A Place With No Name” @ Brooklyn Fireproof Gallery – Brooklyn NY, June 2014
• “Le Petit Ceinture” Art For Change Gallery – New York, NY January 2010
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
• Essential Art Fair - Bushwick Open Studios 2018 & 2019
• Sluice_ Exchange Rates - London 2017
• Making History: AiB Benefit Exhibition – Brooklyn, NY 2015
• AccessArt Brooklyn Art Council Benefit – Brooklyn NY November 2014
• Animamus Art Salon – Brooklyn NY September 2014
• Echo Art Fair, BACG Booth – Buffalo, NY September 2014
• 9th Int’l Conference on the Arts in Society @ La Sapienza University – Rome, Italy, June 2014 Official Delegate presenting “A neighborhood in flux: the cultural evolution of Bushwick, Brooklyn from 1900 – Present Day”
• Bushwick Art Crit Group Anniversary Show – Brooklyn, NY, 2013
• Curating For a Cause @ The Bishop – Brooklyn, NY, 2013
• Leveled Land – Brooklyn NY June, 2012
• EXPOSURE! Curated by Nude with a Goose – New York, NY, 2010
Skills
• Arts administration, event production, budget management, grant writing, fundraising, sponsorship
• Analog photography, art exhibition installation, studio lighting, black and white and color development, alternative processes, digital photography (Canon systems)
• Mac, PS, Adobe Design Suite, Microsoft Office, Wordpress, Mailchimp, Quickbooks, SequelPro, Squarespace