Mahlet Cuff (b.1998) is a Afro-Caribbean queer femme born and based in Winnipeg, Manitoba (Treaty 1). They are an interdisciplinary artist, curator, filmmaker, arts cultural worker, writer, film programmer, DJ, performance and sound artist. Through a primarily lens-based arts practice they are interested in themes of memory, erasure, Black feminist citational praxis and interrogating their own personal familial archives. They use mediums of photography and video work as a way to look at the past as a way to re-envision the present and to create new futures. Cuff’s work has been exhibited in Winnipeg, Toronto, Windsor, New York, Vancouver, Hamilton, Paris and Milwaukee. Within their writing practice, they strive to make connections between contemporary art and sociopolitical issues. Cuff is interested in highlighting works by underrepresented artists within the art canon. They have written pieces for BlackFlash, Peripheral Review, Cmag, Public Parking and Akimbo and Platform Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts. Cuff's interest as a curator focuses on the ways that Black women and gender non-conforming artists are able to use critical fabulation as a way to understand themselves and their histories. She has curated work for Window Winnipeg, Take Home BIPOC arts house, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, The Dave Barber Cinematheque, the8fest, Vancouver Queer Film Festival,Nocturne Festival, BlackFlash Expanded, and Vtape. They have been on film juries for the Toronto Queer Film Festival, Reel Asian Film Festival, Gimli International Film Festival, Breakthroughs Film Festival and WNDX Moving Image Film Festival. As a performance artist they have performed for Interplay_, which is an online performance festival.

Artist Code: 2185