Lynne McDaniel is a Los Angeles based artist whose work uses elements of the landscape to explore current events and examine the relationship between humans and their environment. She earned a BFA at UC Irvine before moving to England to pursue a degree in music from Trinity College of Music in London. She has exhibited extensively and her work is in numerous corporate and private collections in the US and Europe. Recent exhibitions include Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Billis Williams Gallery, Roswell Space, and Brand Library and Art Center. Her work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Artillery Magazine, LA Weekly, Diversions LA, Riot Material, the Pasadena Star News, and the Huffington Post. McDaniel has been awarded the Dohrn Zachai Fellowship, a Hemera Foundation Fellowship, a Vermont Studio Center fellowship, the Jane Friend Award and was a finalist for the Williams Prize in drawing. Her work has been supported by recent residencies at Vashon Artist Residency, the Golden Foundation, and the Ragdale Foundation.