Congratulations to Andina Marie Osorio and Lucas Ondak on receiving this year's BAXTER ST Guest Curatorial Open Call!
Each curator will present an exhibition at BAXTER ST at CCNY and will also be part of our robust programming, including a public conversation, a video interview, and one-on-one meetings with a BAXTER ST Art Advisory Board Member and BAXTER ST staff.
Andina Marie Osorio is a lens-based artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Osorio’s practice explores the intersections of memory, identity, queer affect, migration, and Black femme sexual politics through assemblage, portraiture and archival work centered on the familial and queer experience. Osorio’s work has been exhibited at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, HESSE FLATOW, Sinclair Gallery, The Latinx Project at NYU, The Clemente and Webber Gallery LA. Residencies include Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program (2024-2025), Center for Photography at Woodstock, Fire Island Artist Residency, Ox-Bow and Wassaic Project. She is the recipient of the Aperture Creator Labs Photo Fund, was a finalist for The Robert Giard Grant for Emerging LGBTQ+ Photographers and the NYFA City Artists Corps Grant. Her work has been featured in Elephant Magazine, Port Magazine, Musee Magazine and W Magazine. She received her BFA in Photography and Related Media from the Fashion Institute of Technology (2019) and an MFA in Photography from the Yale School of Art (2024). Osorio is currently an adjunct professor in Photography at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Lucas Ondak is a transsexual curator, researcher, and writer from Edmond, Oklahoma, the occupied land of the Kiowa, Osage, and Wichita people. Due to the severity of ongoing political and legal assaults on LGBTQ+ people throughout the United States, they are invested in understanding how artists challenge hegemonic national mythologies and provide alternative understandings of personal identity, community, and history. Their curatorial methodology relates contemporary artists’ diverse practices to trans and queer theory and discourses on Black and Indigenous studies. Ondak received an MA in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College and a BA in Art Practice with Honors and Distinction from Stanford University. They have contributed to numerous exhibitions as a curator and co-curator, including Dueñas de la Noche: Trans Lives and Dreams in 1980s Caracas (Institute for Studies in Latin American Art, 2024), Promenade: Flowers and Figuration in the Marieluise Hessel Collection (Hessel Museum of Art, 2024), and Dystopian Ecstasy (BOFFO Performance Festival 2025), among others. Their writing can be found in Balam, The Brooklyn Rail, Burnaway, Commo Magazine, Hyperallergic, Systems of Release, and elsewhere.
