Cuban artist based in New York, whose practice focuses on the representation of the female body as shaped by the migratory experience. She studied at the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana and graduated from the International Center of Photography in 2019, where she received the ICP Director’s Scholarship and the ICP New Media Grant. Fiterre uses performance, photography, video, among other media, as tools of perception to inhabit the domestic, the social, and the biological, subverting their gendered meanings. She has received fellowships such as the Reed Foundation Fellowship for Cuban artists and, in 2023, the Cintas Foundation Fellowship in Photography. The work of Paola Fiterre offers an intimate reckoning with the body, identity, and the immigrant experience. Using her own body as both subject and medium; as a space of confrontation and contemplation. Her work is a reflection on the tension between personal and cultural identity, exploring themes such as migration, the female figure in a globalized society, and humanity’s relationship with the natural world. Fiterre’s work evokes a visceral response, drawing attention to the shared experience of “otherness” that transcends borders, cultures, and bodies.