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Lynn Cazabon
Associate Chair
Associate Professor
Photography

410-455-3524 FA 412
cazabon@umbc.edu

Lynn Cazabon is an artist who works in photography, web and mobile device platforms, video, and installation. Her work explores the nature of human progress by looking at what is left behind in its wake. Recent work examines wild plants within the urban environment as a means to reveal the unintended consequences of human activity upon land. Other recent work centers upon obsolescence via technological devices and artifacts.

Solo exhibitions of her work have taken place at Schroeder Romero, NYC; Artists Space, NYC; The Art Gallery at University of Maryland, College Park, MD; Galerie Vox, Montreal, QC; Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY; The Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD; Artists Space, NYC, and The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA. Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions at venues such as the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, GA; Superfront LA, Los Angeles, CA; Civilian Art Projects, Washington, D.C.; Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto, ON; Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR; Folie Culture at Le Local, Quebec, QC; and PS122, NYC.

Cazabon has been awarded artist residency fellowships at the Camargo Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Jentel Foundation, Fundacion Valparaiso, Anderson Ranch Art Center, and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. She has been awarded grants from The Maryland State Arts Council, Baltimore City Arts and Humanities Fund, and Franklin Furnace Archives.

Professor Cazabon received a degree in photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art (M.F.A.) and undergraduate degrees from the University of Michigan (B.A., B.F.A.).