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
Zalika Azim
Baxter St. Residency (2018)
ARTISTS
Zalika Azim
Baxter St. Residency (2018)
Zalika Azim is a New York based artist with ancestral roots in Aiken, South Carolina and Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Her conceptual practice explores the tensions between personal and collective narratives to investigate the ways in which memory, migration and belonging are contextualized in relation to colonized landscapes. Utilizing photography, printmaking techniques, archives, text, and sound as a framework, she is developing projects that explore black imagination as a means for understanding possibility. Azim’s work has been presented with the Milwaukee Art Museum, Gagosian, Park Avenue Armory, The Dean Collection, The International Center of Photography, The Maryland Institute College of Art, Welancora Gallery, Dorsky Gallery, the Instituto Superior de Arte and the African American Museum in Philadelphia. Her first solo exhibition, ‘in case you should forget to sweep before sunset’ was presented with Baxter Street at The Camera Club of New York in 2019. She has participated in residencies at Pratt>FORWARD (2021), The McColl Center for Art + Innovation (2020), Shandaken Projects (2019), BRIC (2019), and Baxter St at The Camera Club of New York (2018). She received a BFA in Photography & Imaging from the Tisch School of the Arts and a BA in Social and Cultural Analysis from New York University (2014), and is currently a MFA candidate at the University of California – Los Angeles.
