UPCOMING CONVERSATION
Res Julian in Conversation with Sahar Khraibani and Genesis Báez
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UPCOMING CONVERSATION
Res Julian in Conversation with Sahar Khraibani and Genesis Báez
Join us at BAXTER ST from 6-8 PM on Wednesday August 12th for a a reading by writer Sahar Khraibani followed by a conversation with Sahar and artists Res Julian and Genesis Báez to celebrate the closing of Res’ solo exhibition True Hole at BAXTER ST.
Genesis Báez (she/her) is an artist working with photography. Her practice considers photography as a means of relation, attending to how landscapes and the body hold histories of movement and place. Her recent monograph Blue Sun (Capricious Publishing, 2025) weaves a decade of photographs made in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Báez’s works are held in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, amongst others. She holds an MFA from the Yale School of Art and is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Amherst College.
Sahar Khraibani is a Lebanese writer and artist based in Brooklyn. Sahar is the author of Anatomy of a Refusal (1080PRESS, 2025), ONE THOUSAND GHOSTS IN THIS FEAST (Wendy’s Subway, 2025), and at the center of the cyclone everything cracks (Belladonna, 2026).
Res Tahan Julian is an artist and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. Born in Paterson, New Jersey, Res graduated with a BA in Sociology and Studio Art from Smith College, an MFA from the Yale School of Art and a post-master’s in curatorial studies from CuratorLab at Konstfack University in Stockholm, Sweden. He is an alum of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and his work has been supported by residencies at Baxter Street, Atlantic Center for the Arts and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, receiving grants from the Fund for Lesbian and Gay Studies at Yale University and the Swedish Arts Grant Committee. Res was shortlisted for a Lucie Foundation Scholarship, received a Saatchi Art Rising Star Award and his book Towers of Thanks, published in 2017 by Loose Joints, was a finalist for the Lucie Photo Book Prize.
His work has been exhibited at BRIC in Brooklyn, Invisible-Exports in New York, Widener Gallery at Trinity College in Connecticut, Shulamit Nazarian in Los Angeles and Casemore Kirkeby in San Francisco amongst other venues. Recent publications featuring their work include Aperture, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Girls Like Us, Cultured Magazine, Vice Magazine, W Magazine, The Paris Review and Matte Magazine.
Res is an Adjunct Professor at Princeton University, Borough of Manhattan Community College and faculty at the International Center for Photography. He formerly held teaching positions at the University of Gothenburg, Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, Smith College and Image Text Ithaca MFA.