Widline Cadet
(b. 1992)![](https://studiomuseum.imgix.net/images/Widline-Cadet_Bradley-Ogbonna_9735_03-_Web-Image-Optimized.jpg?auto=format,compress&fit=max&w=4040)
Widline Cadet's practice draws from personal history and examines race, memory, erasure, migration, and Haitian cultural identity from a viewpoint within the United States.
Biography
Cadet uses photography, video, and installations to construct a visual language that explores notions of visibility and hypervisibility, Black feminine interiority, and selfhood. Cadet is a recipient of a 2013 Mortimer-Hays Brandeis Traveling Fellowship, a 2018 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture artist in resident, a 2019 Lighthouse Works fellow, a 2019 Syracuse University VPA Turner artist in resident, a 2020 Lit List finalist, the 2020 Museum of Contemporary Photography’s Snider Prize winner, and a recipient of a 2020 NYFA / JGS Fellowship in photography. She earned a BA in studio art from The City College of New York and an MFA from Syracuse University.
Exhibitions and Events
Widline Cadet
(b. 1992)![](https://studiomuseum.imgix.net/images/Widline-Cadet_Bradley-Ogbonna_9735_03-_Web-Image-Optimized.jpg?auto=format,compress&fit=max&w=4040)
Widline Cadet's practice draws from personal history and examines race, memory, erasure, migration, and Haitian cultural identity from a viewpoint within the United States.
Biography
Cadet uses photography, video, and installations to construct a visual language that explores notions of visibility and hypervisibility, Black feminine interiority, and selfhood. Cadet is a recipient of a 2013 Mortimer-Hays Brandeis Traveling Fellowship, a 2018 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture artist in resident, a 2019 Lighthouse Works fellow, a 2019 Syracuse University VPA Turner artist in resident, a 2020 Lit List finalist, the 2020 Museum of Contemporary Photography’s Snider Prize winner, and a recipient of a 2020 NYFA / JGS Fellowship in photography. She earned a BA in studio art from The City College of New York and an MFA from Syracuse University.