Amy Lovera is an artist whose work is rooted in imaginative storytelling and the interplay between reality and fiction. Her narrative works translate personal histories through reenacting them as photographs, animations, drawings and performances. Lovera’s work has been exhibited and published both nationally and internationally, including the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the RISD Museum and Mexico’s Fine Art Photography journal, Luna Córnea.  Lovera is one of this year’s recipients of the Make Art individual artist grant awarded by the Rhode Island State Council of the Arts.  She has also been awarded grants from LEF Foundation, Bridgewater State University and RISCA’s Aaron Siskind Fellowship in Photography.  She holds an MFA in photography from Rhode Island School of Design with a certificate in collegiate teaching from Brown University.  Lovera is an Associate Professor of Photography at Bridgewater State University and makes her home and work in Rhode Island.