Baker Artist Portfolios

The Baltimore-based multidisciplinary artist duo Wickerham & Lomax, comprising Daniel Wickerham and Malcolm Lomax (both b. 1986), create works that coalesce varying idiosyncratic interests—pop culture, subculture, the body, identity, gender, the cultural history of Baltimore, and the influences of digital technologies and social spaces. The imagery, tropes, and motifs in their art may appear disparate, yet from these many parts emerges a synchronistic whole. Their maximalist aesthetic manifests the interconnectivity of these themes, producing work that is visually dense while conceptually cohesive.

While often operating as a visual cacophony, Wickerham & Lomax’s sculptures, video works, net.art, computer-generated imagery, and site-specific installations—along with their accompanying glossaries and reference systems—illuminate the complexities, nuances, and through-lines of contemporary life. Their web-based project BOY’Dega: Edited4Syndication (2014) is a sprawling online universe populated by multiple characters and storylines. Influenced by online fan fiction, forum culture, and television crime dramas, the project creates a labyrinthine world that subsumes its visitors, blurring distinctions between fine art and fan fiction as participants move through hundreds of videos and pages.

Wickerham & Lomax graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2009 and have worked collaboratively ever since, previously under the name DUOX. Their work has been exhibited at institutions including the Drawing Center and the New Museum in New York, and The London EDITION during Frieze London. 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.