Widline Cadet

Widline Cadet was born in Pétion-Ville, Haiti, in 1992. In 2002, at age 10, she immigrated to the United States, where she grew up in New York City's Washington Heights neighborhood. At a young age, Cadet was interesting in pursuing a career in animation, but she eventually turned to photography instead. In 2013, she obtained a bachelor's in studio art with a focus on photography from the City College of New York. 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. Her photography deals with diaspora, displacement, family, memory, and Black womanhood. She often documents her own family and friends, as well as strangers. Cadet's first solo gallery 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. Her work was also included in the Made in L.A. 2025'' biennial at the Hammer Museum, in California. ==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==