Baker Artist Portfolios

Lynn Cazabon is an artist whose practice spans from a foundation in analog photography to projects that incorporate printed and virtual photographic images, audio, video, and virtual and augmented reality within socially engaged contexts. Her multifaceted projects are scalable, site-specific and often employ participation as a strategy to deepen public engagement with the environmental, existential, and emotional ramifications of the climate crisis. In order to reach a wide and diverse audience, she seeks alternative ways to disseminate her work to the public using, for example, transit system displays, print and digital billboards, exterior installations, and mobile phone applications.

Her work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions, including with 3S Artspace (Portsmouth, NH), Witte Rook (Breda, the Netherlands), Maryland Center for History and Culture (Baltimore, MD), National Museum of Contemporary Art (Bucharest, Romania), Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Center (Tainan, Taiwan), WRO Art Center (Wrocław, Poland), Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (New Plymouth, New Zealand), The Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh, PA), Artists Space (New York, NY), Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center (Buffalo, NY), the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (Atlanta, GA), and with the Art in Embassies Program (Muscat, Oman). Her work has been featured and written about in numerous reviews, exhibition catalogs, and books.

She has received grants and fellowships from the Fulbright Scholar Program, Puffin Foundation, Franklin Furnace Archives, the Camargo Foundation, the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Point CDC, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, MacDowell, and Yaddo. Locally, she has received grants from the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund, Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, the Trawick Foundation, and she has received individual artist grants from Maryland State Arts Council in Digital Media, Installation, and Photography.

Cazabon is a Professor of Art at University of Maryland, Baltimore County where she has worked with undergraduate and graduate students since 2000. She is also Director of the Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts at UMBC.