Jennifer Cabral. Born in São Paulo, Brazil; Lives in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, United States.
Jennifer Cabral is a Brazilian-American photographer and multi-disciplinary visual artist. She combines documentary photography and her experience capturing cultural heritage archives to generate research-based art deeply connected to history, heritage and identity. The images created with her camera are enriched by archives and historical materials. Often text and imagery are combined in her photographs to present an engaging narrative to her audience. Her family photo archive, historical records and recently captured photographs are equal sources of inspiration, memory and meaning making.
She holds a BFA from two Brazilian institutions: School of Fine Arts Escola Guignard with a concentration in Photography, and a BFA in Social Communications from PUC-Minas. She received a Master of Information degree from Rutgers University School of Communication with a concentration in Archives and Preservation. Her studies focused on potentialities brought into collections when photography and archives intertwine.
Her works have been showcased in exhibitions and cultural institutions in the U.S. and abroad. Latest participations include: Worldthreading Poetry Film Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark. (Apr 2025); NJ Arts Annual 2024 - Montclair Art Museum; Trenton Art Museum at Ellarslie - Mercer County Photography Biennial (2024); Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues - Oakland, CA (2024) ; Solar Foto Festival 2024, Brazil; Le troubillion à table at Le BIR, Arles, France (2024); and Sutured Resilience, Artworks Gallery, NJ (2021).
She received the 2024 Graciela Iturbide MA-g Acquisition Award from The Museum of Avant-Garde, Switzerland. Other collections include: Poetic Phonotheque Archive of Multimedia Poetry, Tranås, Sweden; Princeton University Art Museum and Princeton University Library Graphic Arts Collection, EUA.
