Suniko

BAXTER ST RESIDENCY EXHIBITION: 'Where would we find you if we need to find you?' by 2025 BAXTER ST Resident Suniko Bazargarid (@suniko_ ) weaves together personal and archival imagery to explore the psychological, spatial, and bureaucratic tensions that shape the experience of migration and memory.⁠ •⁠ ⁠Drawing on her own transitory upbringing between Boston, Singapore, Bangkok, and Mongolia, Bazargarid explores the contrast between intimacy and distance, reflecting her many departures and returns. Analog and digital photography, interspersed with documents such as passports, ID photos, and stamps, form layered visual essays that expose the logistical challenges of crossing borders. These are set against the emotional and spiritual weight of displacement—the desire to leave, the pull to return, and the uncanny experience of encountering one’s homeland as a visitor. ⁠ ⁠•⁠ 'Where would we find you if we need to find you?' is on view through November 12, 2025, at BAXTER ST's Gallery at 154 Ludlow St.⁠ •⁠ ⁠Image: Suniko Bazargarid, 'Singapore 1', 2023. Courtesy of the artist.

12 days left to see the show. Friends, old and new, family, colleagues, high school to mfa students- I appreciate all of you for coming through, having a conversation, sharing your stories, and bringing your presence. You know where to find me 🫶🌞

Wow, in a wild turn of events, I'm thrilled to share that I’ve been selected as a recipient of the 2025 Baxter St Residency program, alongside with incredible talents @beatsbyzai and @restagram . This is my first ever residency, and I’m honored to become a part of this amazing community. Thank you so much @baxterstccny for this opportunity, I’m still in disbelief 🥹😭🤍 The past couple of years have been a such journey exploring the depths of my work and figuring out who I am as a photographer ever since my time at @icp . Baxter St has always been a place I deeply admired, and now, knowing I’ll have a show there, feels absolutely surreal 🥹 Thank you to all my friends, family, and my teachers for all your support during my times of many spirals, seeing the potential in my work, and taking me along in your journeys. As always, trust the process and I can’t wait to see what this year brings 🙆‍♀️🌌 *** Posted @withregram • @baxterstccny We are thrilled to announce the recipients of this year’s Baxter Residency Open Call! Congratulations to Res Julian (@restagram ), Zainab Aliyu (@beatsbyzai ), and Suniko Bazargarid (@suniko_ ).⁠ •⁠ Born in Ulaanbaatar, Suniko is a Mongolian #photographer who spent her early years in Boston before living in Singapore, Bangkok, and now New York. Her practice is deeply shaped by her nomadic experiences, exploring the complexities of people and places through themes of #migration, identity, and the fluidity of memory. Working with both #film and digital #photography, she examines the intersections of personal and societal narratives, from collage work to intimate #portraits of places, often reflecting on those that have shaped her.

Self, and the work, by self. Thank you New York, find me elsewhere in 2026 🌞💛

A belated opening reception post. Still feeling so surreal and full from it. Thank you to everyone who came, I appreciate and love you all. The show is on till Nov 12, please come by and let me know so that I can see your faces. Thank you again to Baxter St for allowing my work to live on the walls and the floor 💛 "Where Would We Find You, If We Need To Find You?" Open Sept 10 - Nov 12, Tue-Sat 12-6pm

SOLO EXHIBITION OPENING IN NYC SEPT 10! 6-8PM! I'm so so excited to present "Where Would We Find You, If We Need To Find You?" at Baxter St Camera Club of NY next week as part of the Artist In Residence program of 2025. This work is a cumulation of what I've been working on for the past year in Mongolia and a lot of it has never been seen before here. Thank you @jilweinstock and @sydneyxx for your guidance and support in the past several months, I'm so grateful for this opportunity. Thank you Jesse for the incredible install and @jalatimyo for your help throughout the process. Best poster design by @houseofp9 . I can’t wait to share it with you all, please join me next week if you're in town 🥹✨💛 lets hope this post goes through I hate Instagram this is the 3rd time

OPENING IN TWO WEEKS! SAVE THE DATE! Wednesday Sep 10, 2025 from 6-8pm I’m beyond excited to share that my first solo show, “Where would we find you, if we need to find you?” opens at @baxterstccny as part of my residency. After 10 flights and a few months of resettling in New York, it feels surreal to see this work come together in Baxter St’s beautiful new space. The show will run Sept 10 – Nov 12. Much of the work was made over the past year in Mongolia- navigating distance, longing, and finding comfort in the land. That period of redirection has led me here, and I’m so grateful for the opportunity to share it. This whole thing still feels surreal so I’ll leave it at this for now, more soon. Thank you for being a part of my journey 🙏

We talk with ICP Alum & @baxterstccny resident, Mongolian photographer Suniko Bazargarid on her journey between NYC and Ulaanbaatar and their current ongoing project Mongol Orno. "I’m currently working on my first solo show in NY, based on my personal project Mongol Orno, which began last year when I returned to Mongolia while waiting for my visa. It explores themes of land, identity, distance, and belonging. Much of it comes from lived experience—navigating borders, growing up between places, and trying to figure out what it means to be in a place you're emotionally tied to but only temporarily. What excites me most is seeing how the work is evolving—emotionally, visually, and conceptually—the more time I spend with it, and how all my work is interconnected. Honestly, having my first solo show has been a very anxiety-inducing process." She also talks on her first encounters with photography: "When I first visited Bangkok in 2017, I saw the Sebastião Salgado exhibit at the BACC. I was completely mesmerized by the scale of the images and the overwhelming feeling I got from sitting with them. I remember thinking, “Wow, this really is the format that speaks to me,” even though I don’t think I fully understood what I was seeing. Around the same time, I saw Nan Looking at Brian by Nan Goldin at the old House of Lucie gallery in Bangkok. Nan’s eyes, Brian’s gaze, the color, and the vulnerability of it all really tugged at my heart—it was all conveyed through a photograph. That moment really stuck with me." Read more at https://www.worldsthroughminds.life/words/mongol-orno-with-suniko-bazargarid #WTMTalks

04.21-04.27 I'm exhibiting my work for the first time in Mongolia, at the @nationalgallerymongolia as part of the third annual Photo Week 2025, and it's only up this week. I'm grateful to be showing along 90 years of Mongolian photography, presenting what I have been working on the past year in a space of limbo. Curated by my dear friend @batorgilb , this is just the first iteration of my personal project "Mongol Orno", exploring my identity, land & borders, and migration. Thank you all my friends and family who have supported me in all ways and taken me places in my search of "mongol". Stop by if you have a chance. Love you all 🫶

Puffy hearts to fill your heart 💘 first image printed in @photodom.nyc ’s first mag 🫰🤍 #filmneverdie #nicefilmclub #shotonkodak

reflections /late nights, continued/ #streetdreamsmag #iuvisuals #latenights

late nights, continued #streetdreamsmag #iuvisuals #latenights