Luke Ikard (b. 1990, Houston, TX) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Baltimore, MD. Alongside his studio practice, he manages the Makerspace at Johns Hopkins University for the Whiting School of Engineering.

BIO

He completed his MFA in Multidisciplinary Art from the Mount Royal School of Art at Maryland Institute College of Art in 2017. He received his BFA in Studio Art from Sam Houston State University in 2014. Ikard was a 2018-2020 Hamiltonian Fellow in Washington, DC. He received the 2015-2017 Merit Scholarship from the Mount Royal School of Art.

His work is part of the College of Fine Art and Mass Communication permanent collection at Sam Houston State University. Ikard has also produced site-specific work at the Sam Houston Memorial Museum Park and has exhibited throughout the United States. Including the Hamiltonian Artists Gallery in Washington, D.C., Walter Otero Contemporary Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.

Artist Statement

Ikard employs domestic objects to create the opportunity to perceive an unfamiliar past or to invent a new one. Ikard uses domestic materials, animation, science fiction soundscapes, digital fabrication, and interactive electronic technologies to create a sentiment of displacement; a longing for a home that no longer exists or never did. He draws from objects as samples of distance experiences in which the object can only evoke and resonate, but never entirely recoup. Ikard uses home-like installations to give memories form through furniture, evoking a disquieting sense of anxiety and loss. These objects suggest potential narratives, loss, and memorial fragments that collide to form new events. Ikard’s work focuses on the emotional distance and tension in formative familial relationships and uses his own experiences to expand the meaning of the home. This work is a transitional space between mourning one's loss of familiar childhood relationships and the hope of constructing one’s own future space.

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Luke Ikard (b. 1990, Houston, TX) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Baltimore, MD. Alongside his studio practice, he manages the Makerspace at Johns Hopkins University for the Whiting School of Engineering.

BIO