Alumni
Baxter St at CCNY has long been a catalyst for innovative creation within the artistic mediums of photography and video practices. Ranging from exhibitions, residency programs, and partnerships, our core mission is to support and activate a vibrant community deeply engaged in the art of lens-based contemporary practices. Take a look at the wide breadth of alumni that are a part of our wonderful and ever-expanding community.
ARTISTS
Cheryl Mukherji
Baxter St. Residency (2021)
ARTISTS
Cheryl Mukherji
Baxter St. Residency (2021)
Cheryl Mukherji (b. 1995, India) is a visual artist and writer currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated with an MFA in Advanced Photographic Studies from the International Center of Photography-Bard College, New York in 2020.
Wanted Beautiful Home Loving Girl examines how memory, trans-generational trauma, and personal and collective history informs identity. The exhibition’s photographic and sculptural elements, painted tableaux, along with family albums create a vivid picture of the social impact and inherited notions of Indian women’s psyche. Through self-portraits, the artist visualizes her body in scenes that are performative, exaggerated, and occasionally mundane restagings of her mother’s matrimonial photographs as a way to gain a deeper understanding of her mother’s experience as part of her own and mimic the dichotomy of making the intimate experience of finding a partner a public experience.
