UPCOMING COFFEE TALK
Walkthrough with Zainab Aliyu
Join us on February 21st from 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM for an intimate artist-led walkthrough of 2025 BAXTER ST Resident, Zainab Aliyu’s, solo exhibition A litany for past suns and hear behind the scene details about the making of her work and the symbolism within this installation.
UPCOMING COMMUNITY
Zine Open House
Please join BAXTER ST on Saturday, February 28th, 2026 from 1-4 PM for our second ever Open House event at 154 Ludlow St New York, NY. The Open House will feature a drop-in zine-making workshop with SHRIMP ZINE, led by photographer, teaching artist, and co-founder of SHRIMP ZINE, Andreas Laszlo Konrath. In the gallery, browse
UPCOMING CONVERSATION
Dean Majd in conversation with Sabri Sundos
Join BAXTER ST and 2025 Guest Curatorial Open Call recipient artist Dean Majd and Palestinian American painter and textile artist Sabri Sundos at 6:00 PM on February 19, 2026 for a conversation on the occasion of Majd's solo exhibition Hard Feelings (curated by Marley Trigg Stewart) at BAXTER ST.
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Interviews
Morgan Levy: Spark of a Nail
Video interview with 2025 Mid-Career artist Morgan Levy, discussing her solo exhibition 'Spark of a Nail' on view at BAXTER ST November 20, 2025 - January 28, 2026.
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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.
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
Our Current Workspace Residents
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Dumebi Malaika Menakaya
Dumebi Malaika Menakaya is a Nigerian-American visual artist originally from Howard County, Maryland. Centering queerness, religion, and daughterhood, she is interested in the revelatory power of photography and the practice as an exercise in intuition, discernment, and spirituality.
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Claudia Cortinez
Claudia Kaatziza Cortínez is an Argentine American visual artist based in Brooklyn whose practice spans photography, printmaking, and sculpture. Working with light-sensitive chemistries, pigment, and paper pulp, she explores how image and material register memory through processes of imprint and transformation.
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Allie Tsubota
Allie Tsubota (she/her) is an artist exploring intersections of race, visuality, and the formation of historical memory. Her work joins photography, video, photographic and cinematic archives, and text to examine the role of visual spectatorship across racialized space and collapsed historical time.