Baker Artist Portfolios

Living abroad for over two decades brought Lynn into contact with a variety of people and landscapes. Settling in was not just a matter of figuring out local logistics, but more importantly, immersing herself in the history and artistic heritage of each country.

After graduating with a BFA in Photography from Pratt Institute, Lynn moved to Australia. She was drawn to Australia’s vast desert interior, a place that defies traditional conceptions of landscape. This was the subject of her first one-person exhibition, Horizons (1981), at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.

In 1983, Lynn moved to the UK. While teaching photography at several art schools, Lynn published four books, Furniture Fictions (1989), 1:1 (1993), Corporation House (1996), and Interior Light (1997). She participated in many solo and group shows. During this period, Lynn received an MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths’ College, London.

In 1999, Lynn relocated to Baltimore to teach photography at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Since then, she received a Fulbright Scholarship in 2010 to the Czech Republic to teach at the Film and TV School of The Academy of the Performing Arts in Prague and Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem. The award included photographing sites of Jewish cemeteries.  For several years, Lynn has been exploring archival panoramic photographs for her series, In A Matter of Time. Photographs from this project were selected for inclusion in Fotofest’s 2024 10x10 Exhibition and was the focus of a one-person show at Goya Contemporary in 2025. In 2025, Lynn was awarded a New York Public Library short-term research fellowship to explore their collection of panoramic photographs. 

Recently, Lynn has begun to work with video. In Memory Foam (2022), an imaginary home was constructed from a variety of domestic spaces while Between death and (2024) documented the interior of a former funeral home.  Between death and was screened in 2025 at the New/Next Film Festival in Baltimore.

In short, whether using photography or video, Lynn is driven by a desire to forge connections between people, places, and objects, and discovering what these relationships disclose about our social lives. Creating a narrative from multiple images allow for a deeper exploration of the material world in her search for more nuanced relationships between universal desires and individual expression, the past and present.