PAST 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. Dates and tea will be served at the beginning of the event.

ABOUT SABRI SUNDOS

Sabri Sundos is a Palestinian American painter & textile artist. rooted in his personal experience being raised in the diaspora, sundos explores themes of identity, labor and time.
Through the merging of traditional craft and cultural iconography his work emphasizes the importance of agency & human touch, highlighting the inherent tactile nature of art-making as a means of reclaiming and preserving heritage.

Sundos creates work that continues to foster dialogue around tradition, memory, and an undying hope for the future.

ABOUT DEAN MAJD

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 in relation to apartheid.

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, and Dazed, in which his work made the cover of the fall 2025 issue. Majd’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York in the exhibition New York Now: Home (2023), and he has lectured at the International Center of Photography. In fall 2025 he was an artist-in-residence at the Center for Photography at Woodstock. He is a recipient of the 2025 En Foco Fellowship Award, and he will be a resident at Light Work in Syracuse, New York, in spring 2026. He is passionate about cinema, immensely devoted to his friends, and a proud New Yorker. He believes that love, above all else, is the driving force behind everything he does.