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Widline Cadet is a visual artist born in Pétion-Ville, Ayiti, and is currently based in the United States. Her multidisciplinary practice combines photography, video, performance, sound, sculpture, and installations to create a visual language uniquely her own. Her work incorporates public and personal history as source material to explore Haitian cultural identity, Black (im)migration to the U.S., intergenerational memory, Black feminine interiority, and (hyper)visibility in relation to notions of selfhood.
Cadet earned her BA in studio art from the City College of New York and an MFA from Syracuse University. She was a 2013 Mortimer-Hays Brandeis Traveling Fellowship recipient, 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, a 2020 New York Foundation for the Arts’ JGS Fellowship for Photography recipient, and a 2020-21 Artist-in- Residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem. She currently is a 2021-2022 Visual Arts Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her work has been featured in Aperture Magazine, Foam Magazine, The New Yorker, TIME, The New York Times Magazine, Financial Times, Wallpaper,* among others. Cadet has exhibited in the U.S. and internationally. Her work is held in various public and private collections, including the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Huis Marseille, LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Milwaukee Art Museum, and Princeton University Art Museum.