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.

Mathilde Walker-Billaud is a curator, writer, and educator working across media and contexts, with a special interest in time-based art and discursive practices. Dialogic, research-driven, and intersectional in her approach, she is committed to interpreting and presenting art that reflects the cultural, social, and ecological complexities of our time while challenging traditional categorizations and dominant narratives. Walker-Billaud is currently the Curator of Programs and Engagement at the American Folk Art Museum in New York (Lenapehoking), where she curated Ana Pi’s performance series A Dance for Madalena (2025), co-curated the film series Radical Institutions and Experimental Psychiatry: The Legacy of Francesc Tosquelles on Film (with Sonia Epstein, 2024) and co-edited the proceedings Unexpected Partners: Self-Taught Art and Modernism in Interwar America (2024).

Walker-Billaud’s independent curatorial projects include the group exhibition Noise of the Flesh. Score for Gina Pane at Frac des Pays de la Loire, France (2023), the interdisciplinary program Jeanne Duval: A Spectre in a French Landscape at the Centre Pompidou (2021); and the film and performance series Flaherty NYC: Surface Knowledge (with Courtney Stephens, 2019). She is the recipient of the 2019 BKH Curator Award for which she presented the group exhibition The World Is Gone, I Must Carry You at Bonniers Kunsthal, Sweden. 

Her writing and voice have appeared in E-Flux Journal, BOMB Magazine, ART PAPERS, Movement Research Performance Journal and the podcast Benjamen Walker’s Theory of Everything. She was a guest speaker at UnionDocs, CCS Bard, Colgate University, MoMA Doc Fortnight 2022, Cinema Island Film Festival, and a curator-in-residence at AIR351 in Lisbon, Portugal. She holds a Master of Arts from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.

Ohan Breiding is a Swiss artist and filmmaker based in New York. Through photography, photographic and filmic archives, video and collaboration they employ a trans-feminist lens to the discussion of ecological care by amplifying landscapes as witness. Most recently, their work has been exhibited at MASS MoCA, Arts and Letters, Hesse Flatow, Oceanside Museum (Getty PST), FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Kunsthaus Zürich, IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art and Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Breiding is a 2025–2026 Sharpe-Walentas Artist in Residence and has previously held residencies at the Fire Island Artist Residency (FIAR), Triangle Arts, TBA21–Academy Ocean Space, LMCC on Governors Island, the Millay Colony, and Shandaken: Storm King. They are the recipient of the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, A.I.R. Fellowship, Hellman Award, Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Award and a DAAD Award. Breiding is an Assistant Professor in the Art Department at Williams College and is represented by Ochi Gallery, Los Angeles.

Marley Trigg Stewart (b. Oakland, CA) is an artist whose practice explores authorship and absence through personal histories. Trigg Stewart’s work has been featured in MATTE Magazine and Musee Magazine, and his writing has been featured in Aperture. He completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography at Pratt Institute, and is currently based in Brooklyn, New York.

Dean Majd (b. 1990) is a self-taught, lens-based artist born and based in Queens, New York. Born to Palestinian immigrants, he studied international relations with a focus on the Middle East at CUNY The City College of New York. Majd began forming his intimate and cinematic visual language after being given his first camera at seven years old by his mother. His diaristic work engages with violence as an imposed center-point of one’s life, focusing on repressed, negative emotions within contemporary masculinity in relation to addiction and self-destruction. His work also explores the complexities of the Arab-American dichotomy and the Palestinian diaspora against apartheid, and how they overlap.

Majd has been profiled by Aperture, MATTE Magazine, AnOther Magazine, and GQ Middle East. His editorial work has appeared in The New York Times, Vogue, and New York Magazine among others. He recently has been exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York in the exhibition New York Now: Home, and lectured at the International Center of Photography. In fall 2025 he will be an artist-in-residence at the Center for Photography at Woodstock, and he is one of the recipients of the 2025 En Foco Fellowship Award. He is passionate about cinema, immensely devoted to his friends (his chosen family), and a proud New Yorker. He believes that love, above all else, is the driving force behind everything he does.