Lovie Olivia

Lovie Olivia (born Lovie Olivia Nolan ) is an American multidisciplinary visual artist. She uses the media of printmaking, painting, and installations to explore themes of gender, sexuality, race, class and power.

Early life and education Olivia is a native of Houston, Texas and attended Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (HSPVA).

Work As a multidisciplinary artist, Olivia works across various media including printmaking, painting, fresco, digital and graphic design, and audiovisual and sculptural installation. Olivia's work revolves around a number of interrelated issues important for a number underrepresented communities that all connect back to her own identity and life experience under the labeled categories of: "Female, Black, Gay, etc."

Career Olivia is the recipient of the Individual Artist Grant Award 2009 and 2014 offered by Houston Arts Alliance and funded by the City of Houston. She is a member of the ROUX artist collective alongside Ann Johnson, Rabéa Ballin, and Delita Martin. She has participated in exhibitions, including:

2023 - Tinney Contemporary Art Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee 2023 - Frist Museum, Nashville, Tennessee 2023 - ART IS BOND., Houston, Texas 2020 - 9, Civic TV, Houston, Texas 2019 - The Wright Gallery in the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 2019 - ACRE Projects, Chicago, Illinois 2019 - Presa House Gallery, San Antonio 2018 - Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas 2017 - Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 2017 - Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, New York 2017 - Galveston Arts Center(as ROUX), Galveston, Texas 2017 - Art League Houston (as ROUX), Houston, Texas 2016 - Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 2016 - Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, Texas 2015 - Art League Houston, Texas 2015 - University Museum at Texas Southern University (as ROUX), Houston, Texas 2014 - Project Row Houses, Houston, Texas 2013 - Art League Houston, Texas 2012 - Gallery M Squared, Houston, Texas 2011 - Houston Museum of African American Culture, Houston, Texas 2010 - Spacetaker Artist Resource Center, Houston, Texas