Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter (b. 1981, Philadelphia, PA; lives Philadelphia) has an AA from the Community College of Philadelphia and is an MFA candidate at Tyler School of Art & Architecture, Temple University, Philadelphia. Baxter’s work was included in the monumental exhibition, Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, 2020, and has also been shown at the Brooklyn Museum, NY; National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; Ford Foundation Gallery and MoMA PS1, both New York, NY; African American Museum of Philadelphia; and Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA. She received a public art commission from the For Freedoms project in 2022. Baxter was an executive producer and a featured subject of the feature-length documentary Paint Me a Road Out of Here, 2024, about Faith Ringgold. She has received honors and awards from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Anonymous was a Woman, Soros Justice Fellowship, Art Matters and the Leeway Foundation.
Baxter would like to thank the Marking Time Initiative / NYU Department of Media, Culture, and Communication for their generous support of her exhibition.
