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.
CURATORS
Marley Trigg Stewart
Guest Curatorial Program (2025)
CURATORS
Marley Trigg Stewart
Guest Curatorial Program (2025)
Hard Feelings
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.
Hard Feelings, the debut solo exhibition by Palestinian-American lens-based artist Dean Majd.
Curated by Marley Trigg Stewart, BAXTER ST’s 2025-26 Guest Curatorial Recipient.
Prompted by a childhood friend’s sudden passing in 2016, just a week afterthey
reconnected, Majd began documenting the dynamics within his predominately male circle –
an insular graffiti crew in his hometown of Queens, New York. Made overthe course of a
decade, and largely at night and with point-and-shoot cameras, the photographs oscillate
between moments ofrevelry and violence, creating a nuanced portrayal of masculinity, the
cyclical nature of trauma, and the power of empathy.
