Widline Cadet
(b. 1992)
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.
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Widline Cadet
(b. 1992)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.
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