UPCOMING COMMUNITY
Springboard for the Arts: Assemble Your Creative Portfolio
Explore the essential elements of a polished artist package: an authentic and compelling artist statement, an effective artistic resume, and work samples that shine.
UPCOMING CONVERSATION
'The Negative Space'
Join BAXTER ST and 2025 Guest Curatorial Open Call recipeients Mathilde Walker-Billaud and Ohan Breiding on January 15, 2026 for an artist talk inspired by Phantom Sun, a lens-based exhibition at BAXTER ST that brings together archival images from the Farm Security Administration (FSA) with newly produced works by Ohan Breiding.
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Interviews
Suniko Bazargarid: Where Would We Find You if We Need to Find You?
Video interview with 2025 BAXTER ST Resident Suniko Bazargarid, discussing her solo exhibition 'Where Would We Find You if We Need to Find You?' which was on view at BAXTER ST September 10, 2025 to November 12, 2025.
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Interviews
Junghyun Kim, Juyon Lee, and Kai Oh: Through Fragility
Video interview with 2025 BAXTER ST Guest Curatorial Open Call Recipients, Junghyun Kim, Juyon Lee, and Kai Oh, discussing their exhibition "Through Fragility" on view at BAXTER ST Septemnber 10 - November 12, 2025.
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Interviews
Qiana Mestrich: The Reinforcements
Video interview with 2024 BAXTER ST CCNY resident Qiana Mestrich, discussing her solo exhibition 'The Reinforcements' which was on view at BAXTER ST June 04, 2025 to August 13, 2025.
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Community News
Announcing BAXTER ST's 2025-26 Guest Curatorial Exhibitions
We are thrilled to announce this year's BAXTER ST Guest Curators! Congratulations to Mathilde Walker-Billaud who will present an exhibition by Ohan Breiding and Marley Trigg Stewart who will present an exhibition by Dean Majd. Support for Baxter St's Guest Curatorial program is provided by the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation.
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Community News
Highlighting BAXTER ST's Be Like Water Fellows
Meet this summer’s Be Like Water Fellows! The Be Like Water Fellowship is a two-month program for lens-based artists with a demonstrated commitment to working in communities of the Asian diaspora in New York City. Led by Alison Kuo, an artist and community arts organizer with over 10 years of experience working in higher education and artist residencies in New York City, the program has brought in many distinguished guests from the photographic field.
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Interviews
Arda Asena: Interstitial
Video interview with 2024 BAXTER ST CCNY resident Arda Asena, discussing their solo exhibition 'Interstitial' on view at BAXTER ST January 07, 2024 to February 28, 2024. Video by Lloyd McCullough
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
Our Current Workspace Residents
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Zainab Aliyu
Zainab “Zai” Aliyu is a Nigerian-American artist, designer and cultural worker living in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY). Her work explores the cybernetic and temporal entanglements within societal dynamics to understand how all sociotechnological systems of control are interconnected, and how we are all materially implicated through time.
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Suniko Bazargarid
Born in Ulaanbaatar, Suniko is a Mongolian photographer who spent her early years in Boston before living in Singapore, Bangkok, and now New York. Her practice is deeply shaped by her nomadic experiences, exploring the complexities of people and places through themes of migration, identity, and the fluidity of memory.
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Res Julian
Res Tahan Julian is an artist and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. Born in Paterson, New Jersey, Res graduated with a BA in Sociology and Studio Art from Smith College, an MFA from the Yale School of Art and a post-master’s in curatorial studies from CuratorLab at Konstfack University in Stockholm, Sweden.