Born and raised in Texas, Kim Cadmus Owens now lives and works in Dallas after having lived in New York, Baltimore, and San Francisco. She received her MFA in Painting from Towson University, Baltimore, Maryland, and a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California. She teaches painting and drawing at the undergraduate and graduate levels at the University of Dallas in Irving where she is the head of the painting area.

Selected exhibitions include: The Drawing Show, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX; Visual Directions Texas, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX; NAT 22, Arthouse at Jones Center, Austin, TX; Drawing Upon Structure, Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, Delaware; Drawing Conclusions ,Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York; Curator’s Choice 2002 WPA\C Exhibition, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.; Slippery Slopes, School 33, Baltimore, MD; Visual Transition, Mill River Gallery, Ellicott City, MD; Assemblage Art Awards 1999, Irving Arts Center, Dallas, TX.