L Y N D A F R E S E
Professor Emerita, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA.
M.F.A. 1986, B.F.A. 1978 University of California, Davis, CA; Skowhegan 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
Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA
Palazzo Farnese Collection, Ortona, Italy
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
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
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
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 University 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 and Shadows, artist-in-residence exhibition, with the National Trust for Historic Preservation and N.E.A. at 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
Pacha Mama: earth realm, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
2007 Lynda Frese: New Work, Mark Wooley Gallery, Portland, OR
Petroglyphs, Dolmens and Menhirs, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA
2005 Lynda Frese: New Work, Architects and 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, San Diego Mesa College, San Diego, CA
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
Reconstituting the Vanished, Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, LA
Reconstituting the Vanished, Hilliard Art Museum, Lafayette, LA
1995 Lynda Frese, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2021 Wild Trees II, artist and curator Lynda Frese, Teche Center for the Arts, Breaux Bridge, LA
The Healthy Artist, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, 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.
2018 Three Weird Sisters: Deuxième Acte, Atelier de la Nature, Arnaudville, LA
In Memory of Place, Gadsden State Community College, Gadsden, AL
2017 ARTOUR-O Il Must a Firenze, Montedomini and Villa le Rondini, Florence, Italy (catalogue)
International Collective Exhibition, Gallery Le Logge, Assisi, Italy (2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013)
Purchased Lives: The American Slave Trade from 1808-1865, in collaboration with
The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, Bayou Teche Museum, New Iberia, LA
2016 Encuentros Abiertos: Rastros de Irrealidad, Festival de la Luz, Art & Shadows projection at Galería de Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, and 10 other venues, Aug-Sept. (book)
The Great California Art Movement, 1960’s-1990’s: UC Davis; Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA (book)
2015 From Darkroom to Digital, Davis Art Center, Davis, CA
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
2009 Beausoleil Solar Home interior art, Solar Decathon, National Mall, WDC
2007 Being Open: 30 Years. Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
Being Blown Back to the Future: New Digital Works, Grand Gallery, Lafayette, LA
2006 Vision/ Re-Vision: Louisiana Photography, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
2005 Ruins and Monuments, Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX
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
2000 American Landscapes, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
1999 Big Muddy, Zoller Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL Picturing Home, Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY
1998 Rejuvenation, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
1997 Sleep: Bedtime Reading, Ricco Maresco Gallery, New York, NY
The South by Its Photographers, Center for Arts and Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA
1996 Picturing the South: A Survey of Southern Photography from 1860-1995, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
1986 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
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 (catalogue)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
2021 McClung, Kiwana; Woods, Cheylon, ed. Through Mama’s Eyes: Unique Perspectives in Southern Matriarchy, featuring 10 images and artist essay from the Art & Shadows series,
UL Press, Lafayette, LA.
2020 Intention, directed by Olivia Perillo and Syd Horn, documentary film about south Louisiana women healers
2018 Malo, Alejandro; Wilson, Dr. Mary Ann; Blereau, Laura. Lynda Frese: Holy Memories & Earthly Delights (Louisiana Artists Series). 89 pages, University of Louisiana Press, Lafayette, LA.
accompanying 40 year retrospective exhibition at the Hilliard Art Museum