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M.F.A. University of California, Davis, CA. 1986
B.F.A. University of California, Davis, CA. 1978
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME. 1985
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011 Pacha Mama: earth realm, Redbud Gallery, Houston, TX
Pacha Mama: earth realm, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
2009 Tara in the Living Room, False Front Gallery, Portland, OR
2007 New Work, Mark Wooley Gallery, Portland, OR
Petroglyphs, Dolmens and Menhirs, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA
2006 Ruins and Monuments: Mixed Media Works, Turtle Cove Gallery, Arnaudville, LA
2005 New Work, Architects and Artists Gallery, Lafayette, LA
2004 Recent Work, Cidnee Patrick Gallery, Dallas, TX
2003 Montage, NOCCA Riverfront Galleries, New Orleans, LA
2002 Reconstituting the Vanished, San Diego Mesa College, San Diego, CA
2000 Immagini Pagane, Palazzo Farnese, Ortona, Italy
Pagan Imaging, Mark Wooley Gallery, Portland, OR
Telling Stories, Moore Studio, Lafayette, LA
1999 Collage Paintings & Digital Images, Austin College, Sherman, TX
1998 Post Modern Ex-Votos, James Gallery, Houston, TX
1996 TimePlaces, Bassetti Gallery, New Orleans, LA
TimePlaces, Texas Lutheran University, Seguin, TX
Reconstituting the Vanished, Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, LA
Reconstituting the Vanished, Paul and Lulu Hilliard Museum, Lafayette, LA
1995 Lynda Frese, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
Reconstituting the Vanished, Rensseleur Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Reconstituting the Vanished and Other Stories, Human Arts Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1994 Mark Wooley Gallery, Portland, OR
1993 Baton Rouge Art Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
1988 DeSaisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Boundaries, University Art Museum, Lafayette, LA
1986 Introductions, William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Lynda Frese: Perspectives, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 SWARM: Hope in Blasted Landscapes/ Multispecies Salon 3, Ironworks Gallery, N.O. LA
Lost and Found: The Art of Collage, North Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY
Conjuger Études et Editions D’Artistes, ARPRIM, Galerie Piroir, Montréal, Canada
2009 Beausoleil Solar Home Decathon, interior art, National Mall, WDC
Group Show, Mark Wooley Gallery, Portland, OR
Putting-It-All-Together: Collage, Montage, Assemblage, Climate Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2007 Being Open: 30 Years, 30 Artists, 30 Careers, 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
2004 Spirit of Place: Art of Acadiana, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
2003 Icons, Myths and Prophets, Pan American Gallery, Dallas, TX
2002 Digital Louisiana, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
Re-New, James Gallery, Houston, TX
2000 American Landscapes, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
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, La. 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, during the summer Olympics, Atlanta, GA
The South by Its Photographers, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
The South by Its Photographers, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
1994 Refiguring Nature: Women in the Landscape, CameraWork, San Francisco, CA
Art, Faith and the New Spirituality, Webster University Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO
I Thought I Might Be Dying, Installation/Collaboration,
Baton Rouge Gallery, LA and Artist’s Alliance, Lafayette, LA
1991 Magic Silver Show, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA
1993 Image & Soul, A.R.C. Gallery, Chicago, IL
1989 Beyond Permission, Houston Center for Photography, TX
1988 Hothouse, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
1986 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture 40th Anniversary Exhibition,
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Perimeters of Twentieth Century Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Photograms, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
1983 The Figure: Transformed by Technology, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
Combinations, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles, CA
1982 SECA Photography Invitational, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Collections
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Palazzo Farnese Collection, Ortona, Italy
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY, Permanent Print Collection
Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, LA
Davis Art Center, Davis, CA
University of California at Davis Fine Arts Collection
Private and Corporate Collections
Publications
2011 Pacha Mama: earth realm. Images, texts, poetry, and prayers.
2010 Lord Shiva at Holly Beach, Tara in the Living Room, and 7 other images.
Masters: Collage: Major Works by Leading Artists. Terry Taylor, ed. Lark Books, Ashville, NC
2009 Foghorn and Veil. Cover art for Land of Green Plums and Traveling on One Leg, novels by Herta Muller,
Nobel Prize in Literature. Northwest UP, Evanston, IL
2006 Hindu Deities Along the Gulf Coast. (Images and text). Journal of Southern Religion. (Katrina Issue). Roger Payne, ed.
Florida State University, FL
2002 Selected Collages. Catalog. Digital Louisiana. David Rubin, ed. Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
2000 Immagini Pagane. Catalog. Smith, Alison. (Curator, Tate Britain) “Lynda Frese: Collage Prints.”
Lynda Frese: Immagini Pagane/Pagan Imaging, Progetti Farnesiani, Italy
1998 Flesh, Blood, Rain. (Image). SLEEP: Bedtime Reading. Robert Peacock, ed. Rizzoli Press, NY
1997 Allen, Barbara and Lynda Frese (Image/text). “Digitizing Women’s History: New Approaches to Evidence and
Interpretation in Museum Exhibits.” Radical History Review. Cambridge UP
1996 Prosperity. (digital image). Ellen Dugan, ed. Picturing the South: 1860 to the Present:
Photographers and Writers. Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA
The Royal Dream. and Micaela’s Room. (Images). Susan Sipple-Elliot, ed.
The South by its Photographers. UP of Mississippi
Allen, Barbara (text) and Lynda Frese (Images). Reconstituting the Vanished:
The Baroness Pontalba and the Shaping of Urban New Orleans. University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA
1995 Earth and Water, Fire and Air, Knowing Nature. (Cover and interior images). “Refiguring Nature:
Women in the Landscape.” Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts. (Winter Issue). San Francisco, CA
1986 Exhibit. (gelatin-silver print). Skowhegan: A Ten-Year Retrospective. Catalog.
Castelli Gallery/Portland Museum of Art, NY, NY
Awards
2010-2011 Louisiana Board of Regents. Awards to Louisiana Artists and Scholars
(ATLAS) grant for book publication Pacha Mama: earth realm.
2009 American Academy in Rome, Italy. Visiting Artist/Scholar
2008-2009 Louisiana Division of the Arts, Artist Career Advancement Award
2007 SLEMCO Art and Architecture Endowed Professorship, University Louisiana at Lafayette
2004 American Academy in Rome, Italy. Visiting Artist/Scholar
2002 Louisiana Division of the Arts, mini-grant
2000 Louisiana Division of the Arts, Project grants (2)
1999 Louisiana Division of the Arts, Project grant
2000 Louisiana State Arts Council, Artist Fellowship Award
1999 Liguria Center for the Arts and Humanities, Bogliasco, Italy.
Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship. Artist Residency
1997 Bellagio Center for the Arts and Humanities, Bellagio, Italy. Rockefelle Foundation Fellowship. Artist Residency.
1997 Louisiana Division of the Arts, Artists Project grants (2)
1996 Louisiana Division of the Arts, Project grants (2)
1995 Louisiana Division of the Arts Project grant
1994 Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Arts, grant
Regional Artists’ Project Grant (N.E.A., Rockefeller, and Warhol Foundations)
1992 Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. Money for Women grant
1985-86 University of California Regents Fellowship (and research grant)
1985 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship