Widline Cadet
{{Short description|Visual artist}}
{{Short description|Photographer}}
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| training = BA, City College of New York
MFA, Syracuse University
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Widline Cadet (born 1992) is a Los Angeles-based Haitian photographer. Her work deals with such subjects as diaspora, family, and Black womanhood.
Early life and education
Widline Cadet was born in Pétion-Ville, Haiti, in 1992.{{Cite web |last=Fletcher |first=Gem |date=2021-08-04 |title=Widline Cadet delves into the past to unpack the present |url=https://www.1854.photography/2021/08/widline-cadet-delves-into-the-past-to-unpack-the-present/ |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=British Journal of Photography |language=en-GB}}{{Cite news |date=2024-02-01 |title=In Focus: Widline Cadet's Los Angeles |url=https://www.frieze.com/video/focus-widline-cadets-los-angeles |access-date=2025-01-27 |work=Frieze |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Widline Cadet |url=https://whitney.org/artists/20746 |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=Whitney Museum of American Art |language=en}} In 2002, at age 10, she immigrated to the United States, where she grew up in New York City's Washington Heights neighborhood.{{Cite web |last=Jeffcoat |first=Yves |date=2022-05-12 |title=Widline Cadet Explores How Images Echo Across Time and Space |url=https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/widline-cadet-1234628565/ |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=ARTnews.com |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Murphy |first=Yume |date=2021-08-10 |title=A Photographer's Otherworldly Portrayal of Créolité |url=https://hyperallergic.com/668956/widline-cadet-photographer-otherworldly-portrayal-of-creolite/ |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=Hyperallergic |language=en-US}}
At a young age, Cadet was interesting in pursuing a career in animation, but she eventually turned to photography instead.{{Cite web |last=Flower |first=Isabel |date=2020-12-07 |title=Widline Cadet Captures a Multitudinous World in Photographs |url=https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2020/12/07/widline-cadet-captures-a-multitudinous-world-in-photographs |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=Cultured Magazine |language=en}} In 2013, she obtained a bachelor's in studio art with a focus on photography from the City College of New York.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2013 |title=CCNY Graduate Widline Cadet Named Hays-Brandeis Fellow |url=https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/news/widline-cadet-named-brandeis-fellow |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=The City College of New York |language=en-us}}{{Cite web |last=Murff |first=Zora J |date=2019-01-17 |title=Q&A: Widline Cadet |url=https://www.strangefirecollective.com/qa-widline-cadet |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=Strange Fire |language=en-US}} She then graduated with a master's in fine art from Syracuse University in 2020.
Career
Previously working out of New York, Cadet is now based in Los Angeles.{{Cite web |last=Lack |first=Hannah |date=2024-06-12 |title=The Most Visually Arresting Images From PHotoESPAÑA |url=https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/15692/photoespana-2024-highlights-madrid-photography-festival-lua-ribeira |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=AnOther |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Appleford |first=Steve |date=2024-02-18 |title=Frieze Preview Demonstrates L.A.'s Increasing Importance in the Art World |url=https://lamag.com/art/frieze-preview-demonstrates-los-angeles-importance-art-world |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=LAmag |language=en}}
Her work deals with diaspora, displacement, family, memory, and Black womanhood.{{Cite web |last=Terrebonne |first=Jacqueline |date=2020-12-18 |title=Next Big Things: Widline Cadet |url=https://galeriemagazine.com/next-big-things-widline-cadet/ |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=Galerie |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Fletcher |first=Gem |date=2019-09-04 |title=Exposure: Widline Cadet |url=https://www.creativereview.co.uk/exposure-widline-cadet/ |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=Creative Review |language=en-UK}} She often documents her own family and friends, as well as strangers.
Notable series produced by Cadet include Home Bodies, which began in 2013 and explores her family lineage in Haiti; Seremoni Disparisyon (Ritual [Dis]Appearance), which began in 2017 and addresses Black feminine identity and visibility; and Soft, which also began in 2017 and captures visitors to New York City parks.
In 2018, she was an artist in residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, followed by a 2020–2021 artist residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem. In 2020, she received the Museum of Contemporary Photography's Snider Prize.
Her photography has been featured in various publications including Aperture, the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and the Financial Times. Her piece Seremoni Disparisyon #1 (Ritual [Dis]Appearance #1) appeared on the cover of Edwidge Danticat's 2024 collection We're Alone.{{Cite web |last=Lou |first=Jo |date=2024-02-09 |title=Exclusive Cover Reveal of "We're Alone" by Edwidge Danticat |url=https://electricliterature.com/exclusive-cover-reveal-of-were-alone-by-edwidge-danticat/ |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=Electric Literature |language=en-US}}
Cadet's first solo show, Se Sou Ou Mwen Mete Espwa m (I Put All My Hopes On You), was held at New York's Deli Gallery in 2021.
In 2025, Cadet's work is included in Narratives in Focus: Selections from PAMM's Collection, a photography group show at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida.{{Cite web |title=Narratives in Focus: Selections from PAMM's Collection • Pérez Art Museum Miami |url=https://www.pamm.org/en/exhibition/narratives-in-focus/ |access-date=2025-02-05 |website=Pérez Art Museum Miami |language=en-US}} Her work is also being included in the Made In L.A. 2025 biennial at the Hammer Museum, in California.{{Cite web |date=2025-10-05 |title=Made in L.A. 2025 {{!}} Hammer Museum |url=https://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2025/made-la-2025 |access-date=2025-02-05 |website=hammer.ucla.edu |language=en}}
Collections
Institutions that hold her work include the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Princeton University Art Museum.
References
External links
- {{official|https://www.widlinecadet.com/}}
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Category:People from Ouest (department)
Category:Haitian women artists
Category:Haitian emigrants to the United States
Category:Haitian women photographers
Category:City University of New York alumni