photo by: Josef Polleross
CIRCA Director Lynn Cazabon is a Professor of Visual Art at UMBC who creates site-specific, multimedia projects centered on the intersection between social and environmental issues. Her work has been exhibited internationally in museums and galleries, as public art, and in solo and group exhibitions at Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Center (Tainan, Taiwan), National Museum of Contemporary Art (Bucharest, Romania), The Point CDC (Bronx, NY), WRO Art Center (Wrocław, Poland), Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (New Plymouth, New Zealand), South Bend Museum of Art (South Bend, IN), The Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh, PA), Artists Space (New York, NY), Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center (Buffalo, NY), Schroeder Romero Gallery (New York, NY), and Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (Atlanta, GA). She has received grants and fellowships from the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund, Puffin Foundation, Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, Maryland State Arts Council, Trawick Foundation, Franklin Furnace Archives, The Camargo Foundation, MacDowell and Yaddo. In 2015, she received a Fulbright Scholar Award in Latvia. Cazabon received BA and BFA degrees from University of Michigan and an MFA degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She served two terms as Associate Chair of the Department of Visual Arts at UMBC from 2009 – 15.