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Lynda Frese’s artwork has been exhibited across the United States, and in Europe and South America. Her pieces are represented in private and public collections including the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, the Manetti Shrem Museum in Davis, and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and the Center for Louisiana Studies. Lynda Frese is 2016 professor emeritus at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where she served on the visual arts faculty. She received BFA (1978) and MFA (1986) degrees from the University of California at Davis, and fellowships from Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine; the Bogliasco Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, Italy, Vashon Artist Residency, WA; ArtLab at the Mountain Lake Biological Station, University of Virginia; and Willapa Bay AiR, Willapa, Wa.
The artist received the Louisiana 2016 Artist of the Year Award for her sustained work celebrating the history and culture of the south. The 2018 exhibition Lynda Frese: Holy Memories & Earthly Delights, at the Hilliard Art Museum in Lafayette, LA., surveyed 40 years of the artist’s work from early toned gelatin silver prints produced in California, to recent photo-collage and egg tempera works. Her art practice was featured in the documentary Intention (2020) which premiered at the New Orleans French Film Festival. Her spring solo exhibition Lynda Frese: Far-Out opens Saturday April 12, 2025 at the Acadiana Center for the Arts in Lafayette, Louisiana.
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photo courtesy Vashon Artist Residency, Vashon, Washington