Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter 

Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, pedagogue, and cultural worker whose practice examines the ethics of representation, the afterlives of archival violence, & the possibilities of sacred repair. Working across photography, installation, performance and film, her practice is rooted in resilience, care and community centeredness while working at the intersections of Black feminist thought and transformative change. Drawing heavily on the methodologies of the Black radical tradition, critical fabulation and Afrofuturist theory, their work seeks to reimagine the archive not as a fixed repository of history but as a site that can be reconfigured through artistic intervention, ritual, and collective remembrance. Her work has been presented nationally and internationally at institutions including MoMA PS1, the Brooklyn Museum, the African American Museum in Philadelphia, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Frieze Los Angeles, Museum Reitberg, The Ford Foundation, the National Museum of World Cultures in Leiden, the Netherlands, and the Print Center, Philadelphia, among others. Baxter is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the Frieze Impact Prize, the Anonymous Was A Woman Award, the Soros Justice Fellowship, the Art for Justice Grant, the Right of Return Fellowship, and the Leeway Foundation Transformation Award. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Artforum, Hyperallergic, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The New Yorker.