Lynn Randolph grew up in Port Arthur, TX, an oil refinery town on the Gulf Coast. Just as everyone else who survived this experience she mutated while earning a BFA from the University of Texas in Austin. Shortly thereafter she moved to Houston where she has lived (with a few exceptions) and painted ever since. Her paintings have been exhibited widely in Texas and the Southwest. In 1998 she had a large one-person exhibition at the Arizona State University Art Museum in Tempe, AZ.

In 1989-90 She won a fellowship to the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe/Harvard. For a year she lived and worked at the Institute in Cambridge, MA. In the summer of 1987 she was awarded a fellowship at Yaddo (artists colony) in Saratoga Springs, NY.

Lynn Randolph's paintings have been exhibited and collected in permanent museum collections and other public and private institutions including: Bunting Institute at Radcliffe/Harvard; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; Arizona State University Art Museum; San Antonio Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and, the Menil Collection, Houston, TX.

From 1990 to 1996 Randolph engaged in a collaborative exchange with the eminent feminist and cultural studies shaman Donna Haraway. Their engagement with specific ideas relating to feminism, techno-science, political consciousness and bewitching metaphors appears in Donna Haraway's book. "Modest Witness @ the Second Millennium: FeMale Man, Meets Onco Mouse" (Routledge, 1997 ). Lynn Randolph's paintings appear on the front and back covers as well as serving as introductions to many of the chapters. Another painting, "Cyborg," graces the cover of Haraway's earlier book Simians, "Cyborgs and Women" (Routledge, 1991). Her paintings have appeared in many other texts, not as collaborations, but as they inform topics such as feminism, religion, cultural studies and contemporary art. Most recently Randolph's paintings were re-printed in Deborah J. Haynes' book, "The Vocation of the Artist" (Cambridge University Press, 1997) in a chapter entitled "Visionary Imagination".

For most of her professional life Lynn Randolph has been involved with civil and human rights issues and causes. She was a charter member and chapter president of the Houston Women's Caucus for Art, and a member of the WCA's national organization board. In 1988 she co-chaired the national meetings in Houston. In 1984 she was the co-organizer for Artists Call against U. S. intervention in Central America. In 1992 she joined a women's drum corps and was involved in several actions (defending the clinics) during the Republican National Convention in Houston. In 1993 Randolph went to El Salvador with curator Marilyn Zeitlin to help organize an exhibition of Salvadoran artists called "Art Under Duress, El Salvador 1980 to present". The show was seen in Houston at the Lawndale Art Center where Randolph also has served as a board member.

In 2004 her painting, "The Coronation of Saint George," was chosen for the cover of The Nation magazine (September 13, 2004) featuring the Republican National Convention.

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