Cadine Navarro’s multidisciplinary practice cross-pollinates the fields of art, science, and design to create spaces of encounter and direct experience. The materiality of her work often finds its source in a Japanese aesthetic and worldview - the country where Navarro was born and raised with French and American dual citizenship. She is interested in the stories derived from land-based cultural identity, which contain lessons embodied in ancestral knowledge and plants. The arc of her research-based practice explores community outreach, educational programs, and resilience models to catalyze a shift in consciousness in our relationship to nature.

She has an extensive international exhibition record, including at MIT Artfinity, Harvard Divinity School, The French Embassy in Mexico, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Venice Architecture Biennale, Contour Biennale, Art Brussels, and Deitch Studios New York. Publications include Publication Studio Vancouver and Rotterdam, Bloomsbury Publishing, and Billebaude, France.

A recent graduate with a Masters of Science from the Department of Urban Planning at MIT, she also holds a BA in Art History from Sussex University, UK, a BFA from the Rietveld Akademie, Amsterdam, and an MFA from Goldsmiths University of London. She is a laureate of the HISK - a practice-based post-graduate research program in Belgium.

Born in Kobe, Japan
French-American, currently based in Los Angeles
cadinenavarro@gmail.com

Education

2024-25 Master of Science in Urban Studies and Planning,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
2006-08 Master of Fine Art, Goldsmiths University, London, UK
2005-08 Bachelor of Fine Art, Rietveld Akademie, NL
2000-01 Graduate Certificate in Painting, New York Academy of Art, USA
1995-00 Bachelor of Art, Art History; French, Japanese, Sussex University, UK

Exhibitions & Events (Selection)

2025 Shadow Observatory, MIT, USA
2024 Sounds Like Love, Gallery Emma Molina, Monterrey, MX
2023 Eat Your Sound, The French Consulate in Monterrey, MX
2023 Seed Songs for the New Earth, The Box, Wexner Center of the Arts, Columbus, OH
2022-2023 “Breathe”, Director’s Dialogue for Learning and Public Programming, Wexner Center of the Arts, Columbus, OH
2022-2023 Grange Insurance Audubon Center, It Sounds Like Love, Columbus, OH
2022 “9 Seeds”, Harvard Divinity School, Ecological Spiritualities, Cambridge, MA
2021-2022 Frank Museum at Otterbein University, ‘It Sounds Like Love’, Columbus, OH
2020 ING Off-Program, Cadine Navarro “WHAT IS IT WORTH?”, ING Art Center, Brussels, BE
2019 ING LOVE/HATE DEBATE start a conversation with the ING Bank Brussels Collection, Brussels, BE
2019 Fréquences Sauvages, Musée de la Chasse et Nature, Paris (FR)
2019 Contour Biennale 9, curated by Natasa Petresin Bachelez, Mechelen, (BE)
2018 SeedBalls performance and workshop, Venice Architecture Biennale (IT)
2018 Two Fragments in collaboration with Bl!ndman, De Single Antwerp (BE)
2018 Natuurlijk, CWART, curated by Corrine Walder and Mildreda Deleersnijder, (BE)
2018 Mystic Properties, Art Brussels, curated by Elena Sorokina (BE)
2018 DeVisu, DRAC Foundation, Normandy (FR)
2017 The Gird and the Cloud: How to Connect, Vanderborght, curated by Elena Sorokina, Brussels (BE)
2017 Trust is Not a Mood, Barely an Emotion, ING Gent, curated by Elena Sorokina, Ghent (BE)
2017 De Visu, l’Abbatiale Saint Ouen, selected by DRAC, Normandy (FR)
2017 DeVisu, DRAC Foundation, Normandy (FR)
2017 Open studios HISK, BE
2017 Cure Park with Louwrien Wijers and Egon Hanfstingl, Learn Tomorrow’s Language: Art and Science meets Spirituality in a Changing Economy, Amsterdam (NL)
2016 Anthropologies, Galerie La Forest Divonne Project Space, Brussels (BE)
2016 La Traverser des Apparences, Le Portique, selected by DRAC, Normandy (FR)
2016 Paratex 10, Hangar, Barcelona (SP)
2016 Open studios HISK, BE2015 Dans le Silence ou dans le Bruit, Le SHED, curated by Julie Faitot, Notre Dame de Bonneville (FR)
2014-15 Metamorphosis Project (series), Gallery UBI, Rouen (FR)
2014-15 Le Petit Salut (series), in collaboration with Jason Karaindros and Guy Lemounier, ESDHAR Rouen (FR)
2014 Fragments of a Former Moon, Concourse Gallery, curated by Kimberly Phillips, Vancouver (CA)
2013 Cinémorphe, Galerie Le SeptCinq, Paris, curated by Romilly Walton Masters (FR)
2012 ‘Breathe’, Making Sense Colloquium, American Foundation, Paris (FR)
2011 Le Site Matrixiel, Treignac Project Space, curated by Sam Basu, Limoges (FR)
2010 Snow-Ball Effect, Mains d’Oeuvres, curated by Charlotte Moth, Peter Fillingham, Paris (FR)
2009 Playgrounds, Chowaiki Gallery, NYC (USA)
2009 VB64, Performance model Vanessa Beecroft, Deitch Studios, New York (USA)
2008 UNFAIR PROJECT, de Service Garage, Art Amsterdam (NL)
2008 Auction in a Suitcase, 1:1 Project Space, Rome, curated by IM press (IT)
2008 Rupture Series III, Making Waves, Plan B Space, Amsterdam (NL)
2008 Rupture Series II, The Witness, Plan B Space, Amsterdam (NL)
2007 Rupture Series I, Long Street Workshops, London (UK)
2007 Fall-In-Theater, Ashwin Street Gallery, London (UK)
2006 Lucky You Met Me, ////////////PACT, Amsterdam (NL)

Artist Talks & Workshops

2024 Seeds of Life, MIT IAP at the Arnold Arboretum
2024 “It Sounds Like Love”, Plant Animacies Workshop, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
2024 “Seed Songs”, an immersive event at Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA
2023 Seed Saver Exchange, livestream video of “It Sounds Like Love”
2023 EPRI Pollinator Party, livestream podcast of “Seed Songs”
2022 ‘It Sounds Like Love’, art and science outreach has included:
M.I.T, Harvard Divinity School, Harvey Mudd College, Denison University, Ohio Wesleyan University, Kenyon College, Ohio State University, Otterbein University, John Loghan Highschool, Hartford Middle school
2017-18 De Visu, DRAC (FR)
2016 Hangar Paratex 10 (SP)
2016-17 HISK (BE)
2014 ESDHAR Beaux Arts Rouen (FR)
2013 Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver (BC)
2010 Parsons School of Art and Design, (FR)

Research

2026 Peer-reviewed Science Research
Makris, N.C., Navarro, C. Seeds accelerate germination at beneficial planting depths by sensing the sound of rain. Sci Rep 16, 11248 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-44444-1

Articles

2023 Harvard Divinity Bulletin “Repose”
2022 ‘It Sounds Like Love,’ immersive installation at Frank Museum, concludes with public events
https://www.otterbein.edu/news/it-sounds-like-love-immersive-installation-at-frank-museum-concludes-with-public-events/
2022 2nd Place at Ohio State Fair
https://www.dispatch.com/story/entertainment/arts/2022/07/30/fine-arts-exhibition-features-more-than-200-artists-ohio-state-fair/10157550002/
2022 It Sounds Like Love
https://www.dispatch.com/story/entertainment/2022/01/09/unique-interactive-exhibit-it-sounds-like-love-display-frank-museum/8975781002/
2021 Illustrations for: ‘Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character: Principles and Best Practices’, Rowman & Littlefield
2019 Sounds Like Rain, Billebaude, Editions Glénat
2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, Swamp School at the Lithuanian Pavilion
https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/209395/commonism-at-the-swamp-school/
2018 Rencontre Nocturne avec Aubry Daerden, LPDO
2017 A Peripatetic Journey, Roel Arkesteijn in conversation with Cadine Navarro
2015 Chez Cadine, Une Piece de Plus, ESHDAR publications, Rouen
2011 Old Marks and Burn Marks: The 51 Homes of Cadine Navarro, Fohnhouse
2011 Converging and Parallel Lines, Dr Lorna Collins
2011 Experience, Clam Magazine, Fall Edition, Paris
2009 Tough Times Loosens Creativity, New York Times, May 2009
2009 A Rupture Event, Ana Genovés catalogue raisonné, Aldgate Press, London
2009 Recession Proof, Unfair Project Catalogue, Art Amsterdam
2008 A Fine Red Line, IM Press, London
2008 Drawing a Line between the Artist and the Curator, Archival collection at Gallery Apollinaire, Milan, mentored by Daniel Buren, Fondazione Ratti, IT
2007 On Intuition and Beauty, Celeste Painting Prize, London

Awards

2025 MIT Bose Research Fellowship
2025 MIT Freedom Fellow
2025 MIT LUMA Lab fellowship
2022 Wexner Center of the Arts Artist Residency Award in Learning and Public Practice
2022 Land-based artist-in-residence, Otterbein University
2021 Deans Merit Scholarship Harvard University
2017 DRAC Haute Normandie, Production Grant
2015 DRAC Haute Normandie, Travel grant, Japan
2008 Royal Talens Painting Prize, Amsterdam
2006-08 UK Arts and Humanities Research Council Scholarship (AHRC)