Natasha Hovey was born and raised in New Hampton, Iowa. In 2011 she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from The University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, and in 2014 she received her Master of Fine Arts at The University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin.
Hovey has exhibited at the EKWC/ European Ceramic Workcentre. s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, Glassell School of Art within The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas and the MANA Contemporary in Chicago, IL.
Hovey was a NCECA project residency artist at the European Work Center in the Netherlands during the summer of 2014, and an Artist-in-Residence at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft and Midwestern State University.
She is currently an Assistant Professor at The University of Central Missouri.