Cathy Spence is a fine art photographer living and working in Southeast Texas. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Lamar University.  Cathy has photographs in the Wittliff Collection of Southwestern and Mexican Photography; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas in Austin. She was awarded the Houston Center of Photography Fellowship in 1998. Her work has been included in group shows: “Fotofest: New Discoveries,” PDNB Gallery, Dallas, Texas, 1998; “Will Power” Rudolph Poissant Gallery, Houston, Texas, 1998; “Nude,” PDNB Gallery, Dallas, Texas, 1999; “Braun, Francois, Spence, King,” Stephen L. Clark Gallery, Austin, Texas, 2001; and the traveling exhibition “Inside/Outside,” showcasing ten Texas women photographers selected by Anne Tucker, former curator of photography at MFAH. Her solo exhibitions “Saints and Satyrs” appeared at the Art Studio, Beaumont, Texas, 2000; and Stephen L. Clark Gallery, Austin, Texas, 2003; "Crooked Eye" at the Art Studio, 2020;  and "Liminal" at the Dishman Art Museum, Beaumont, Texas, 2023 and Redbud Art Center, Houston, Texas 2025.