Lynda Frese is a photographer, painter, and printmaker interested in exploring human relationship with the natural world. Frese earned a B.A. degree in 1978 and an M.F.A. degree in 1986 from the University of California, Davis. She was awarded 2016 Professor Emeritus at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where she taught photography and design for thirty years. 

She has received fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, Bogliasco Foundation, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Vashon Residency, ArtLab at the U of Virginia, Willipa Bay AiR, WA, and was twice an artist-scholar at the American Academy in Rome. She has received awards from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andy Warhol Foundation, and the Louisiana State Arts Council. Her work is represented in notable public and private museum collections. 

The 2018 exhibition Lynda Frese: Holy Memories & Earthly Delights, at the Hilliard Art Museum in Lafayette, LA, surveyed 40 years of the artist’s work from early toned gelatin silver prints produced in California to recent photo-collage and egg tempera works. An eponymous monograph with critical essays was published by UL Press. The 2025 exhibition Lynda Frese: Far-Out opened in April at the Acadiana Center for the Arts featuring her series about UFOs in wild environments.