Lauren Ashley S. Baker is an interdisciplinary artist living in Syracuse, NY. Her art practice encompasses drawing, performance, video, installation, sculpture, and photography. Her work brokers a relationship between the two and three-dimensional concrete realities to investigate the bounty of representational and perceptual possibilities. The overarching themes and influences in Baker’s work include the observer effect, the Anthropocene, and the writings of Antonin Artaud, Julia Kristeva, and Walter Benjamin.

Baker represents sea porks, gummy rabbits, and techno fossils as markers in an arch of humanity's consumption of resources and relationship to objects. Her installations call attention to what is seen and unseen, what is valued, and what has been discarded. 

Baker received her MFA from Florida State University in 2018 and her BA from Florida Gulf Coast University in 2010. From 2017-2021, Baker was the executive director of a nonprofit gallery called 621 Gallery. Lauren Baker is currently teaching at Syracuse University.