portraits by Olivia Perillo
L Y N D A F R E S E lyndafrese@gmail.com
b. 1956, Jacksonville, FL
2016 Professor Emerita, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA.
1986 MFA and 1978 BFA University of California, Davis, CA.
1985 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME.
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Palazzo Farnese Collection, Ortona, Italy
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY
Hilliard Art Museum, Lafayette, LA
Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Re-envisioning Plantation History, Shadows-on-the-Teche, New Iberia, LA
2020 Wild Trees: Photo Etchings and Paintings, Teche Center for the Arts, Breaux Bridge, LA
2018 Lynda Frese: Holy Memories & Earthly Delights, a 40 year survey exhibition,
Hilliard Art Museum, Lafayette, LA (catalogue) Feb 17 - May 19
Sacred Vessels, Levee Gallery, Monroe, LA.
Stage of the Ancients, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA.
2015 Art & Shadows, one year artist-in-residence exhibition, funded by the National Trust for
Historic Preservation and N.E.A., Shadows-on-the-Teche, New Iberia, LA
Reconstituting the Vanished: Memory, Gender and Placemaking in the Delta South,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA
2012 Earth Voices, Borgo della Marmotta, Spoleto, Italy
2011 Pacha Mama: earth realm, Redbud Gallery, Houston, TX and Acadiana Center for the Arts, LA
2000 Pagan Imaging, Mark Wooley Gallery, Portland, OR
Immagini Pagane, Palazzo Farnese, Ortona, Italy
1998 Post Modern Ex-Votos, James Gallery, Houston, TX
1996 TimePlaces, Bassetti Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1995 Lynda Frese, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 In Media Res: How One Story Becomes Another, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
TIMELAPSE, 7th Louisiana Biennial, curated by Laura Bleareau Louisiana Tech U, Ruston, LA.
2021 Wild Trees II, curated by Lynda Frese, Teche Center for the Arts, Breaux Bridge, LA
2020 Revelations: Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection, Ogden Museum of
Southern Art, New Orleans, LA.
Adam and Eve –The Garden and Beyond, Biedenharn Museum & Gardens, Monroe, LA
Ornithology: Flight Patterns, Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ.
2016 Encuentros Abiertos: Rastros de Irrealidad, Festival de la Luz, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The Great California Art Movement, 1960’s-1990’s Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA (book)
International Collective Exhibition, Gallery Le Logge, Assisi, Italy, 2012-2017
2015 The Collection of the Davis Art Center, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010 SWARM: Hope in Blasted Landscapes, Ironworks Gallery, New Orleans, La
Conjuger Études et Editions D’Artistes, ARPRIM, Galerie Piroir, Montréal, Canada
2006 Vision/ Re-Vision: Louisiana Photography, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
Spirit of Place: Art of Acadiana, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
2003 Icons, Myths and Prophets, Pan American Gallery, Dallas, TX
2002 Digital Louisiana, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
1999 Big Muddy, Zoller Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Picturing Home, Center for Creative Photography, Woodstock, NY
1998 Rejuvenation, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
1997 Sleep: Bedtime Reading, Ricco Maresco Gallery, New York, NY;
The Clothes Show, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI;
The South by Its Photographers, Center for Arts and Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA
1996 Picturing the South: A Survey of Southern Photography The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
1989 Beyond Permission, Houston Center for Photography, TX
1988 Hothouse, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
1986 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, NY, NY
1982 SECA Photography Invitational, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
AWARDS
2024 ArtLab residency fellowship, Mountain Lake Biological Station, University of Virginia, VA
2023 Artist-in-residence, Vashon Artist Residency, Vashon Island, WA Mar/April
2022 Louisiana Percent for Art program purchase, installation at University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA
2020 Artist-in-residence, Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA. Oct/Nov
2019 and 2018 Artist-in-residence, RUC (Rural Residency for Contemporary Art), Valcamonica, Italy
2016 Artist of the Year, 2016 Louisiana Cultural Awards, Baton Rouge, LA
2014 -2015 Art & Shadows, 12-month artist residency awarded by the National Trust for Historic
Preservation and the National Endowment of the Arts, Shadows-on-the-Teche, New Iberia, LA
2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 artist-in-residence, ArtStudio Ginestrelle, rural Assisi, Italy
2013 University of Louisiana at Lafayette Foundation, 2013 Distinguished Professor Award.
2008, 2009, 2010 Artist-in-residence, Julia & David White Artists’ Colony, Cuidad Colon, Costa Rica
2009 and 2004 Visiting Artist/ Scholar, American Academy in Rome, Italy
2007-2016 SLEMCO/BORSF Endowed Professorship in Art and Architecture, UL Lafayette, LA
2000 Artist Fellowship Award, Louisiana State Arts Council, Baton Rouge, LA
1999 Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship, Liguria Center for the Arts and Humanities, Bogliasco, Italy
1997 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, Bellagio Center for the Arts and Humanities, Bellagio, Italy
PUBLICATIONS
2023 Leibesgedichte (Love Poems) anthology of art and poetry, Redbud Art Center, Houston, TX
2022 Twenty Years of Marais Press, Imprinting a Campus and Collection UL Press, Lafayette, LA
2021 Through Mama’s Eyes: Unique Perspectives in Southern Matriarchy, McClung, Kiwana and Woods,
Cheylon, ed; cover art, essay, 15 color images from Art & Shadows series, UL Press, Lafayette, LA.
2020 Intention, documentary film (2020) by Perillo, Olivia and Horn, Syd of HonestArt Productions;
studio interview, premier 23rd Annual New Orleans French Film Festival.
2018 Lynda Frese: Holy Memories & Earthly Delights (Louisiana Artists Series). essays by Malo,
Alejandro; Wilson, MaryAnn; Blereau, Laura. 89 pages, University of Louisiana Press
2016 Harrington, Mangialardi, Rastros de Irrealidad, XIX Festival de la Luz, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The Great California Art Movement UC Davis 1960-1990, John Natsoulas Press, Davis, CA
2012 Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2011 Lynda Frese Pacha Mama: earth realm. ATLAS, Board of Regents, Baton Rouge, LA. 64 pages.
2010 Taylor, T., ed. Masters Collage: Leading Works by Major Artists. Lark Books, Ashville, NC
2000 Lynda Frese: Immagini Pagane. 60 pages Italian/English, Progetti Farnesiani, Italy
1998 Peacock, Robert, ed. SLEEP: Bedtime Reading (photographers & writers). Rizzoli Press, NY, NY
1996 Dugan, Ellen, ed. Picturing the South: 1860 to the Present Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA
Sipple-Elliot, Susan, ed. The South by its Photographers. Mississippi Press, Pascagoula, MS