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selected solo exhibitions
2005 Daughters of Gaia: Rita, Katrina and Other Tales of the Furies,
Café des Amis, Breaux Bridge, LA
• Lynda Frese, New Work, Architects + Artists Gallery, Lafayette, LA
2004 Lynda Frese: Recent Work, Cidnee Patrick Gallery, Dallas, TX
2003 Lynda Frese: Montage, NOCCA Riverfront Galleries, New Orleans, LA
2002 Reconstituting the Vanished, (Parts 1-4), San Diego Mesa College, San Diego, CA
2000 Lynda Frese: Pagan Imaging, Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, OR
Lynda Frese: Immagini Pagane, Palazzo Farnese, Ortona, Italy
Telling Stories, Moore Studio, Lafayette, LA
1999 Lynda Frese: Collage Paintings & Digital Images, Austin College, Sherman TX
1998 Post Modern Ex-Votos, James Gallery, Houston, TX
Lynda Frese: Collected Stories, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA
1997 Reconstituting the Vanished (Part 4) Festivale International, Lafayette, LA
1996 TimePlaces, Bassetti Gallery, New Orleans, LA
TimePlaces, Texas Lutheran University, Seguin, TX
Reconstituting the Vanished (Part 3), Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, LA
Reconstituting the Vanished (Part 2), University of Louisiana Museum; Lafayette, LA
Two Women of Natchitoches (Parts 1&3), Old Courthouse Museum; Natchitoches, LA
1995 Lynda Frese, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
Reconstituting the Vanished (Part 1), Rensseleur Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Reconstituting the Vanished and Other Memories, Human Arts Gallery; Atlanta, GA
1994 Lynda Frese, Acanthus Gallery, Portland, OR
Reconstituting the Vanished (Part 1), University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA
1993 Lynda Frese, East Texas State University, Commerce, TX
Lynda Frese, Baton Rouge Art Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
1992 Lynda Frese Northeast Missouri State U., Kirksville, MO
Lynda Frese, Eastern Washington U., Cheney, WA

1989
1987

Two Alumni Photographers, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
Lynda Frese, DeSaisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Boundaries, University of Louisiana Museum of Art, Lafayette, LA
1986 Introductions, William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Perspectives, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Master of Fine Arts Exhibition, UCD, Davis, CA
1985 Lynda Frese,Paris Gibson Square Historic Center for the Arts, Great Falls, MT
Lynda Frese, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
Lynda Frese, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
The Woman’s Building, Los Angeles, CA, Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI
1983 Cameravision, Los Angeles, CA, Davis Art Center, Davis, CA

selected group exhibitions
2006 2006 Digital Print Show, Grand Contemporary Gallery, Lafayette, LA
2005 Group Show, Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX
Spirit of Place:Art of Acadiana, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
Marais Press: 14 Years of Editions, Galerie Lafayette, Lafayette, LA
2004 Spirit of Place:Art of Acadiana, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
Louisiana Landscape, Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, LA
2003 Icons, Myths and Prophets, Pan American Gallery, Dallas, TX
Noir, Gallery 912, Lafayette, LA
2002 Digital Louisiana, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA (publication)
2001 Focus on the Future: Digital Photography, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Untitled, Galerie Lafayette, Lafayette, LA
It's About Time, Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, LA
Re-New, James Gallery, Houston, TX
2000 American Landscapes, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
Building a Collection, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Recent Acquisitions, Richard Nelson Gallery & Fine Arts Collection, UCD; Davis, CA
1999 Big Muddy, Zoller Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Picturing Home, Center for Creative Photography, Woodstock, NY
1998 Rejuvenation, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
1997 The Clothes Show: Objects for and About Clothes, Center for Creative Studies; Detroit, MI
The South by Its Photographers, Louisiana Center for Arts and Sciences;
Baton Rouge, LA (book)
EPAT: Explorations in Photography and the Art of Technology, Backdrop Gallery; Atlanta, GA
Ephemeral Truths, San Marcos Fine Arts Center, San Marcos, TX
1996 Picturing the South: A Survey of Southern Photography from 1860-1995
High Museum of Art, during the Summer Olympics Exhibition, Atlanta, GA (book)
Refiguring Nature: Women in the Landscape, CameraWork; San Francisco, CA. (publication)
The South by Its Photographers, the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
The South by Its Photographers, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC (book)
Primary Subject, The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA
Primary Subject, Woodstock Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY
1995 Works on Paper: Recent Drawings and Prints, Louisiana State University; Baton Rouge, LA
Southern Women, Hilderbrand Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Illuminance '95, Lubbock Fine Arts Center, Lubbock, TX
1st Annual Erotic Art Expo, Miami Art Expo, Miami Beach, FL
1994 Art, Faith and the New Spirituality, Webster University Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Celebrating the Sensual, Vaanguard Gallery, Nashville, TN
Spirituality and Religiosity in America, 8th Street Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
I Thought I Might Be Dying: A Collaborative Installation on Fertility & Flux, Artists'
Alliance, Lafayette, LA & Baton Rouge Art Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
Visual Voices: The Female, University of West Florida; Pensacola, FL (publication)
1993 Three Person Exhibition, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts; Grand Rapids , MI
Image & Soul, A.R.C. Gallery, Chicago, IL
Magic Silver Show, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA (publication)
At the End of the 20th Century, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art; Santa Ana, CA
1992 Images From the Eighties, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida
Gainsville, FL (publication)
1991 Women Viewing Women, Rockford College, Rockford, IL
Illuminance, Lubbock Fine Arts Center, Lubbock, TX
Five Collage Artists, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA
1990 Lousianne en Papier, Artists’ Alliance, Lafayette, LA
1989 Beyond Permission, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX (publication)
Louisiana Women Artists, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA.
1988 Hothouse, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI.
UnRealism, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
1987 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture 40th Anniversary Exhibition
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Photography 1986, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA (publication)
1985 Perimeters of Twentieth Century Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, CA
1982 SECA Photography Invitational, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• San Francisco, CA (publication)

collections
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA.
Ogden Museumof Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL.
Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Palazzo Farnese Collection, Ortona, Italy
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY, Permanent Print Collection
Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, LA
Davis Art Center, Davis, CA
University of California at Davis Fine Arts Collection, Davis, CA.
Resurgens, Atlanta, Georgia
Private and Corporate Collections

honors, awards, grants and scholarships
2006 • Visiting Artist/ Scholar at the American Academy in Rome for Katrina/Rita Ruins Project, July  
2003 • Selected Artist for the New Orleans Opera Association 2003-4 Season , N.O., LA
2002 Louisiana Division of the Arts : Individual Artist' Mini-Grant
2000 Artist Fellowship Award, Louisiana State Arts Council 1999-00
LA Division of the Arts Grant, curating 2 exhibitions Ex-Libris: Story and Symbolism
1999 Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship, Liguria Center for the Arts and Humanities
Residency Award, Bogliasco, Italy
Spring Sabbatical Award, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA
Louisiana Division of the Arts : Individual Artist' Mini-Grant
1998 College of the Arts Collaboration Grant, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
1997 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center for the Arts and Humanities Residency Award
Bellagio, Italy
Louisiana Endowment for the Arts : Decentalized Funding Grant
Louisiana Division of the Arts : Individual Artist Mini-Grant
College of the Arts Collaboration Grant, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
1996 Louisiana Division of the Arts Project Grant : Reconstituting the Vanished, Part 4
Louisiana Division of the Arts Project Grant : Reconstituting the Vanished, Part 3
Summer Sabbatical Award, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
1995 Regional Designation Award in the Arts, Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games Cultural Olympiad, for the solo exhibition at the Mississippi Museum, Jackson, MS
Louisiana Division of the Arts Project Grant : Reconstituting the Vanished, Part 2
College of the Arts Collaboration Grant, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
1994 Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Arts Grant , Reconstituting the Vanished: A Feminist Critique first part of a (four year) image and text collaboration with Dr. Barbara Allen.
• Regional Artists' Project Grant (National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, Andy Wharhol Foundation) for the interdisciplinary work I Thought I Might Be Dying: A Collaborative Installation on Fertility and Flux.
1992 Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Inc. Grant for Goddess Images
1991 Faculty Research Grant, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  Faculty Research Grant, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
1989-91 Lafayette Airport Commission for two site specific art installations, Swamp Queen & Metamorphosis
1985-86 University of California Regents Fellowship
Graduate Research Grant, University of California, Davis
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship, provided by: University of California at Davis, Skowhegan School, and Andy Warhol Foundation

lectures and symposia
2002 • Lynda Frese: Montage, New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, New Orleans, LA
• Reconstituting the Vanished, San Diego Mesa College, San Deigo, CA
2001 • It's About Time, Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, LA.
2000 • Pagan Imaging from the Goddess to the Madonna, College of the Arts, U.L.Lafayette
1999 • Lynda Frese, Austin College, Sherman, TX.
• Lynda Frese, Liguria Foundation, Bogliasco, Italy
1998 • Lynda Frese, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA
• Lynda Frese: Post-Modem Ex-Votos, Houston Center for Photography Event
• Lynda Frese: Identity, James Gallery, Houston, TX
• Lynda Frese: Ritual, James Gallery, Houston, TX
• Looking At Art, James Gallery, Houston, TX
• Making a Living as an Artist, Keynote Speaker, Mississippi Arts Commission Visual Arts, •Professional Development Workshop and Conference, Jackson, MS
• Female Figure in Art and Literature Symposium, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
• Tattooed Walls: Computer Art Peformance, Festivale Intemationale, Lafayette, LA
1997 • Lynda Frese, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA
• Margins and Options, Public Television program : Reconstituting the Vanished
• Curator’s Lecture, Dix Artists de Louisiane, Artists Alliance, Lafayette, LA,
1996 • Refiguring Nature, San Francisco CameraWork, San Francisco, CA
• Lynda Frese: TimePlaces Clarence John Laughlin Photographic Society,
• New Orleans Museum of Art event at Bassetti Gallery, New Orleans, LA
• Lynda Frese: TimePlaces, Texas Lutheran University, Seguin, TX
• Reconstituting the Vanished, The Friends of the Humanities, Lafayette, LA
• The Future Past: Women Artists Re-Visualize History, The Society for Photographic Education Conference, Los Angeles, CA
• Matrilineage Symposium: Women, Art ard Change, Syracuse University, Syracuse,NY
• Lynda Frese, Whittier College, Whittier, CA
• Tattooed Walls multi-media performance, Festivale International, Lafayette, LA Margins and • Options Public Access Television,Reconstituting the Vanished: Caroline Dormon’s Gift of the Wild Things (with Dr. Barbara Allen)
1995 • Lynda Frese, Mississippi Museum of Art. Jackson, Ml
• Lynda Frese, Renselleur Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
• Lynda Frese, Louisiana State U event at Baton Rouge Art Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
• Collaboration and Construction, National Architecture Conference, Lafayette, LA
1994 • Lynda Frese, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
• Art, Faith and the New Spirituality, Symposium, Webster University, St. Louis, MO
• Margins and Options: Public Access Television, Reconstituting the Vanished:
Marie Thereze Coin-Coin
1993 • East Texas State University, Commerce, TX, Webster University St. Louis, MO
1992 • American University, St. Louis, MO

publications
2003   • Center Quarterly Magazine, A Journal of Photography and Related Arts, Calculated Characters
& Invented Figures, #46, Kathleen Kenyon, ed., Portfolio;
• The Quest, Quarterly Joumal of Philosophy, Science, Religion,and Art,
W. Metzger, ed., p. 26, winter
2002 Digital Louisiana, catalog, David Rubin, ed. Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
2000 Lynda Frese: Immagini Pagane catalog; with essays by Dr. Remo Palmirani, Ex Libris Scholar
and Dr. Alison Smith, Senior Programme Curator, Tate Gallery, London, Progetti Farnesiani, Italy
1998 • Land of the Green Plums, Traveling on One Leg, book covers, HYDRA Contemporary European Writers, Northwestern University Press, Evanston, IL
• River Styx magazine, St. Louis, MO, cover and interior portfolio art
• SLEEP: Bedtime Reading, Robert Peacock, ed., Rizzoli Press, photographers & writers anthology
• Terra Nova magazine, David Rothenberg, ed. MIT Press, interior art, v. 4, #3
1997 •Terra Nova magazine, David Rothenberg, ed. MIT Press, covers and interior art,
v. 2 #4, v.3#1,#2
• Radical History Review, Cambridge University, vol 68, Spring, Digitizing Women’s History: New Approaches to Evidence and Interpretation in Museum Exhibits with Dr. Barbara Allen
• A Summer at Grand Isle, by Adolphe duQuesnay, cover art, Flora Levy Humanities Foundation, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA
1996 • Picturing the South: 1860 to the Present: Photographers and Writers, Chronicle Books,
by Ellen Dugan, ed., p.210.
• American Short Fiction, cover, University of Texas Press, Volume 23
• Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts, Knowing Nature, cover & Portfolio, Winter
• The South by its Photographers, Mississippi Press, Susan Sipple-Elliot, ed, p 27
• Reconstituting the Vanished: The Baroness Pontalba and the Shaping of Urban New Orleans by Barbara Allen and Lynda Frese, Albert Fields, ed., Flora Levy Humanities Foundation, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA
• Architronic: The Electronic Joumal of Architecture, Reconstituting the Vanished: Gender, Memory, and Placemaking in the Delta South.<HRL:http:www.saed.kent.edu/Architronic/.> vol.5, no. .l, May
1993 • The Box: Remembering the Gift, Terra Publications, p.26
1992 • CALYX: A Journal of Art and Literature, Margarita Donnelly, ed., Vol. 14, #2, Portfolio, Winter
1985 • Skowhegan: A Ten-Year Retrospective Castelli Gallery/Portland Museum of Art, NY, NY

education
1986 M.F.A. University of California, Davis, CA
1985 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME
1978 B.A. University of California, Davis, CA; 1974-6 Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA