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L Y N D A      F R E S E

Professor Emeritus 2016, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA.

M.F.A. 1986, and BA 1978 University of California, Davis, CA; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture 1985

 

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, LA

Private and Corporate Collections

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Wild Trees: Photo Etchings and Paintings, Teche Center for the Arts, Breaux Bridge, LA 2020

Lynda Frese: Holy Memories & Earthly Delights, a 40 year survey exhibition, Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, LA (catalogue) Feb 17 - May 19, 2018

Sacred Vessels, Lynda Frese and Babette Beaulieu, Levee Gallery, Monroe, LA. 2018

Stage of the Ancients, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA 2018

Art and Shadows, site specific exhibition and performance, National Trust for Historic Preservation and N.E.A., Shadows-on-the-Teche, New Iberia, LA 2015
Reconstituting the Vanished: Memory, Gender and Placemaking in the Delta South, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 2015

Earth Voices, Lynda Frese, Borgo della Marmotta, Spoleto, Italy 2012

Pacha Mama: earth realm, Redbud Gallery, Houston, TX 2011

Pacha Mama: earth realm, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA 2011

Lynda Frese: New Work, Mark Wooley Gallery, Portland, OR 2007

Petroglyphs, Dolmens and Menhirs, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA

Lynda Frese: New Work, Architects and Artists Gallery, Lafayette, LA 2005

Lynda Frese: Recent Work, Cidnee Patrick Gallery, Dallas, TX 2004

Bricolage/Montage, Lynda Frese and Shawne Major, New Orleans Center for Contemporary Art, New Orleans, LA 2003

Reconstituting the Vanished, Memory, Gender and Placemaking in the Delta South, San Diego Mesa College, San Diego, CA 2002

Pagan Imaging, Mark Wooley Gallery, Portland, OR 2000

Immagini Pagane, Palazzo Farnese, Ortona, Italy 2000

Post Modern Ex-Votos, James Gallery, Houston, TX 1998

Reconstituting the Vanished: Marie Laveau and the Politics of Myth, Festival International event, Natural History Museum, Lafayette, LA (1997)

TimePlaces, Bassetti Gallery, New Orleans, LA 1996

Reconstituting the Vanished: the Baroness Pontalba and the Shaping of Urban New Orleans, Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, LA 1996

Reconstituting the Vanished: Caroline Dorman's Gift of the Wild Things, Hilliard Art Museum, Lafayette, LA 1996

Lynda Frese, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS 1995

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Assez/Enough: Identity in Southern Louisiana, Basin Arts Gallery, Lafayette, LA 2023

Outer Space, Atelier de la Nature, Arnaudville, La 2022

Twenty Years of Marais Press, Imprinting a Campus and Collection, Hilliard Art Museum, Lafayette, LA 2021/2022

Wild Trees II, curated by Lynda Frese, Teche Center for the Arts, Breaux Bridge, LA 2021

The Healthy Artist, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA. 2021

Revelations: Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA. 2020

Adam and Eve ­­–The Garden and Beyond, Biedenharn Museum & Gardens, Monroe, LA 2020

Ornithology: Flight Patterns, Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ. 2020

In Memory of Place, Gadsden State Community College, Gadsden, AL 2018

ARTOUR-O Il Must a Firenze, Montedomini and Villa le Rondini, Florence, Italy 2017

International Collective Exhibition, Gallery Le Logge, Assisi, Italy (2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013)   

Rastros de Irrealidad (Open Encounters: Traces of Unreality), XIX Encuentros Abiertos, Festival de la Luz, Art & Shadows

projection at Galería de Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, and 10 other venues, Aug-Sept. 2016

The Great California Art Movement, 1960’s-1990’s: UC Davis; Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA (book)

From Darkroom to Digital, Davis Art Center, Davis, CA 2015

The Collection of the Davis Art Center, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2015

SWARM: Hope in Blasted Landscapes, Ironworks Gallery, during Prospect 1.5 New Orleans, La 2010

Conjuger Études et Editions D’Artistes, ARPRIM, Galerie Piroir, Montréal, Canada 2010

Being Open: 30 Years, 30 Artists, 30 Careers, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI 2007

Being Blown Back to the Future: New Digital Works, Grand Gallery, Lafayette, LA 2007

Vision/ Re-Vision: Louisiana Photography, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA 2006

Ruins and Monuments, Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX 2005

Spirit of Place: Art of Acadiana, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA 2005

Icons, Myths and Prophets, Pan American Gallery, Dallas, TX 2003

Digital Louisiana, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA 2002

American Landscapes, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS 2000

Big Muddy, Zoller Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL Picturing Home, Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY 1999

Rejuvenation, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY 1998

Sleep: Bedtime Reading, Ricco Maresco Gallery, New York, NY 1997

The South by Its Photographers, Center for Arts and Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA 1997

Picturing the South: A Survey of Southern Photography from 1860-1995, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA    1996

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY 1986

Perimeters of Twentieth Century Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 1985

SECA Photography Invitational, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 1982

 

PUBLICATIONS

LIEBESGEDICHTE (Love Stories), Published by Redbud Gallery, Houston, TX 2023

Twenty Years of Marais Press, Imprinting a Campus and Collection, Hilliard Art Museum, Lafayette, LA 2022

Through Mama’s Eyes: Unique Perspectives in Southern Matriarchy, McClung, Kiwana; Woods, Cheylon, ed.; 10 images,

cover art and artist essay, UL Press, Lafayette, LA. 2021

Intention, directed by Olivia Perillo and Syd Horn, cultural documentary film about women in southwest Louisiana, premiered at

the 23rd Annual French Film Festival, New Orleans, LA 2020

Lynda Frese: Holy Memories & Earthly Delights, with essays by Alejandro Malo, Dr. Mary Ann Wilson, Laura Blereau, curator.

89 pages, University of Louisiana Press, Lafayette, LA. 2018

Lynda Frese: Pacha Mama: earth realm, ATLAS Louisiana Artists and Scholars, 64 pages, Baton Rouge, LA. 2011

Lynda Frese: Immagini Pagane (Pagan Imaging) 60 pages Italian/English, Progetti Farnesiani, Italy 2000

Reconstituting the Vanished: the Baroness Pontalba and the Shaping of Urban New Orleans, Barbara Allen and Lynda Frese, Levy Foundation, Lafayette, LA

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