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 solo exhibitions of her work include Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Galveston Art Center, Women and Their Work, Austin, and Handley-Hicks Gallery in Fort Worth. 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. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions throughout the region, and she recently created site-specific installations for shows at DiverseWorks, Houston, the Art Museum of Southeast Texas at Beaumont, the Arlington Museum of Art, and UT San Antonio Satellite Space at Blue Star. Kathy lives in Dallas, Texas and has taught photography in the College of Visual Arts and Design at the University of North Texas in Denton since 1992.

"In general, I think of my work as an examination of how we remember. I am conducting a search for the site of intersection between matter and memory, and that is why I am drawn to photography, a medium with a strongly perceived connection to reality. My projects always include photographs or elements imbued with photographic qualities. Using a variety of media I create visual archives - installations, sculptures, and artist's books - in which words, music, fingerprints, rubbings, objects, and photographs function as artifacts, indices, and aides-memoires. My visual archives both help me to remember and allow me to forget.”