Kathy Lovas

Kathy Lovas was born in Duluth, Minnesota. She holds a B.S. degree in biology from St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana and an MFA in photography from Texas Woman’s University in Denton. She is a 1995 recipient of a Mid-America Arts Alliance National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in photography and was a 1991 fellow of the American Photography Institute National Graduate Seminar at New York University. Selected exhibitions of her work include Lawndale Art Center, Galveston Art Center, Women and Their Work, Handley-Hicks Gallery, Fort Worth and Old Jail Art Center. In 2018, Lovas had a mid-career retrospective exhibition titled Close-Up-Magic at Gallery 219 at Eastfield College in Dallas, Texas, curated by Iris Bechtol.

She has been a resident artist at Project Row Houses in Houston, Connemara Conservancy in Allen, TX and the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida. She recently created site-specific installations at UNT on the Square in Denton, DiverseWorks, the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, the Arlington Museum of Art, UT San Antonio Satellite Space at Blue Star, and Warehouse Theater in Greenville, SC.

Kathy’s work is included in the following collections: Capital One, Dallas, TX; PINHOLE Resource, San Lorenzo, NM; TRISOLINI Gallery, Ohio University, Athens, OH, and The Willis Library at University of North Texas in Denton, TX. Kathy Lovas lives and works in Dallas, Texas.

Selected Works