Baker Artist Portfolios

Since 2009, Wickerham & Lomax have built a collaborative practice around the reality of the image, performance, and installation, using their own creative partnership as raw material for a broader inquiry into how people come together. Working across CGI, industrial materials, and built environments, the Baltimore-based duo stages worlds where identity operates as design and where friendship itself becomes a subject worthy of serious artistic scrutiny.

Drawing on queer theory, speculative fiction, and networked virtuality, Wickerham & Lomax treat identity, subculture, and marginality as structures built through connection. Their work complicates the narratives urban space and mainstream culture tell about who gathers, how, and why, and puts forward a simpler proposition: the deepest creative act might be two people choosing to build something together.

That argument has taken shape across a decade of major projects: DUOX4Larkin at Artists Space (2012), BOY'Dega at the New Museum (2014), the participatory Take Karaoke at Brown University (2015), Odell's (2017) — a fictionalized revival of a storied 1970s Baltimore disco — and Diskobar (2018) and its 2022 Reunion, a real bar the artists operated to pull the city's social life directly into the work. Their pandemic-era project Domestic QT turned lockdown intimacy and Zoom-apartment isolation into a study of parasocial attachment. In 2021, the Baltimore Museum of Art acquired Romance as Intrusion (2020) for its permanent collection, and Artforum commissioned the duo for its Projects series, published in the April 2021 issue. They are recipients of the Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize and the Trawick Prize Best in Show. Most recently, in 2025, Wickerham & Lomax completed Soft Gym, a large-scale public art and park commission for Inviting Light, supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the City of Baltimore.