Paola Fiterre Havana, Cuba | 1992

Biography

Fiterre's practice focuses on the representation of the female subject crossed by the experience of migration, the self-acceptance of her body, and its communication with nature and society.

Paola Fiterre explores expanded photographic and performative practices focused on the representation of the female subject traversed by the experience of migration. She studied at the University of the Arts (ISA) in Havana until 2017 and graduated from the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York in 2019, having been awarded both the ICP Director’s Fellowship and the ICP New Media Fellowship. Fiterre was recently awarded the Cintas Foundation Sondra Gilman Gonzalez-Falla Fellowship in Photography 2023-2024 and previously received The Reed Foundation Fellowship for Cuban artists to attend a residency at The Vermont Studio Center (2022); the En Foco Photography Fellowship (2022); and the ICP x Tory Burch Artists Fellowship (2021). Her works are part of the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She lives and works in New York.

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