BUTTER 2025 | LOVIE OLIVIA

Lovie Olivia (Houston, TX) creates paintings, collages and sculptures that are an assembly of found and articulated objects. Their work mines the scarce Black, Queer and Womanist archives and projects possibility through veils, memory, gesture, and speculation. Olivia’s work hangs in numerous private and public collections including Project Row Houses, National Museum of African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian Institute, University of Texas Austin, Houston Intercontinental Airport. She is a recipient of three Individual Artist Awards, 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, and more.