Visual artist Lynda Frese grew up in New England, and later moved to the west coast to study art. She received both her BFA and MFA degrees in studio art from the University of California in Davis, where she resided for ten years. As a graduate student she attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. Ms. Frese joined the faculty at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 1986 where she taught primarily photography for 30 years. She won the 2013 Distinguished Professor for her scholarly work.
Ms. Frese maintains a studio in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana and has been an artist-in-residence in Italy, France and Costa Rica, including the Rockefeller Bellagio Foundation, the Liguria Center for the Arts and Humanities, ArtStudio Ginestrelle and twice at the American Academy in Rome. Frese’s mixed media photography work has been exhibited in South America, Europe and across the United States; it is represented in private and public collections including the Shrem Museum of Art in Davis, Ca, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans. Ms. Frese received Artist of the Year at the 2016 Louisiana Cultural Awards for her sustained work which celebrates the culture and history of the south.
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