Paola Martínez Fiterre is a Cuban artist based in New York City. Fiterre studied at the University of Arts (ISA) in Havana until 2017. In 2019, she graduated from the International Center of Photography, having been awarded both the ICP...
Read MorePaola Martínez Fiterre is a Cuban artist based in New York City. Fiterre studied at the University of Arts (ISA) in Havana until 2017. In 2019, she graduated from the International Center of Photography, having been awarded both the ICP Director’s Scholarship and the ICP New Media Grant. Her practice focuses on the representation of the female subject crossed by the experience of migration. Fiterre relates and inhabit different spaces: the domestic, the social, and the biological one, in order to show, and sometimes subvert, its ideological gender significance. In the last two years, Paola Fiterre's work has been awarded The Reed Foundation Fellowship for Cuban Artists to attend the two-week residency at The Vermont Studio Center, En Foco Photography Fellowship in 2022; and the ICP x Tory Burch Artists Fellowship in 2021. Currently, the artist is working on a forthcoming solo show at Pen and Brush Gallery in New York, in 2024. She has participated in multiple group shows in Havana and New York, San Francisco, Bordeaux, Geneva, and Mexico City. In 2019 she was invited to participate in a two-artist exhibition Pen and Brush Gallery (New York City), in dialogue with the American artist Renee Cox. Currently, Martínez Fiterre is exploring expanded photographic practices through the study of light, analogic photography, fiction, performance, and painting. The funding of Cintas Fellowship will be an important part for the materialization of a complex project with high costs on printing, traveling, darkroom time, artist labor, framing and professional assistance.
