Lovie Olivia is an American Artist born, living and making in Houston, TX who creates paintings, collages and sculptures that are an assembly of found and manipulated objects. Their work mines the scarce archives of Black, Queer and Womanist personifications and imagines meliorism through memory, gesture, and speculation. Inspired by the historical excavation work of writers like Christina Sharpe, Saadiya Hartman, Audre Lorde and Zora Neale Hurston. Olivia’s work hangs in numerous private and public collections including the National Museum of African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian Institute, Intercontinental Airport Houston TX, University of Texas Austin, and Brooklyn Museum. She is a recipient of three Individual Artist Awards, which are funded by the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance. She has exhibited at Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Frist Museum Nashville TN, The Phillips Collection, DC, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn NY, 1969 Gallery Manhattan NY, Jam Gallery Brooklyn NY, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago IL, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH), Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC), Houston TX, Art Pace, San Antonio TX The Station Museum, Houston TX, Project Row Houses, Houston TX, TSU University Museum, Houston TX, Arthello Beck Gallery in Dallas TX, and more.