Widline Cadet is a visual artist born in Pétion-Ville, Ayiti and currently based in the United States. Her practice is rooted in photography and includes video, sound, sculpture, performance, and installation. Her work centers her family’s lived experience of immigrating from Haiti to the United States as source material to explore the complexities of Black diasporic life and survival.
Cadet earned her BA in studio art from the City College of New York and an MFA from Syracuse University. She 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, a recipient of a 2020 NYFA / JGS Fellowship in photography, a 2020-21 artist in residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem, and a 2021-2022 visual arts fellow at The Fine Arts Work Center. Her work has been featured in Aperture Magazine, FOAM, The New Yorker, TIME Magazine, 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 Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, The Huis Marseille, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), The Milwaukee Art Museum, and The Princeton University Art Museum.
Cadet currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
Contact
widlinephoto@gmail.com
Current / Upcoming Exhibitions
Solo presentation at Frieze Los Angeles with Shulamit Nazarian Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, February 29th March 3rd 2024
Group presentation at Paris Photo with Webber Gallery, Paris, France, November 8-12th 2023
Solo museum exhibition Take This with You / Pran sa avèk ou, at Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, NL, June 24th-Oct 15th 2023
Work included in Inheritance, at The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, June 28th-Feb 2024
Work included in Friends and Lovers, at Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA, July 15th-Aug 19th 2023
Work included in Black Venus, at Somerset House, London, UK, July 20th- Sept 24th 2023
Recent News
Work acquired by The Whitney Museum of American Art
Work received honorable mention for 2022 Shpilman Photography Prize
Work included in Black Venus, at Fotografiska Museum, New York, NY, May 13th-August 28th, 2022
Profiled by Yves Jeffcoat for Art In America’s May 2022 Talent Issue
Work on view in Shifting Perspectives: Landscape Photographs from the Collection, at Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, March 18-July 3rd, 2022
Work on view in Beautiful Diaspora / You Are Not the Lesser Part, at MoCP, Chicago, IL, March 3-June 25th, 2022
Work on view in Picturing Black Girlhood: Moments of Possibility, at Express Newark, Newark, NJ, Feb 17-July 2, 2022