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