Her work has been supported by grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Saskatchewan Arts Board, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Her work is exhibited internationally, and she has contributed to numerous publications including Through Post-Atomic Eyes (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2020), and Prefix Photo 32: Occupying Forces (Toronto, 2015). Mary Kavanagh is a Professor and Board of Governors Research Chair in the Department of Art, University of Lethbridge, where she teaches drawing and interdisciplinary studio.