Cuban passport: Vivian Poey

Vivian shares the story behind her mother’s Cuban passport and how she became obsessed with it as a space to investigate her family’s complicated trajectory of migration which informs her own art practice.

Vivian Poey is an artist and educator in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her work examines a number of issues ranging from migration and cultural assimilation to the passing of time. She is a US citizen, born in Mexico of Cuban parents and lived in Guatemala and Colombia before moving to the U.S. Vivian Poey teaches Photography and Integrated Studies at the Lesley College of Art + Design.