Gabriela Sauer Kolčavová was born in 1977 in Boskovice, Czech Republic, where she resides and works as a freelance artist and lecturer. In 2000, she graduated from the Masaryk University School of Education in Brno, Czech Republic, with an M.A. in English and Fine Arts. Her relationship to the U.S. is rooted in her formal photographic education at the University of North Texas, where she received an M.F.A. in Fine Art Photography in 2004.

Kolčavová documents personal relationships in the form of a nonlinear travelogue, chronicling her travels in both the Czech Republic and the U.S. Kolčavová photographs tranquil moments between friends in rural settings, and her subjects are deeply, entirely at leisure. Kolčavová enjoys the limitless possibilities of the photographic medium—working with large-format cameras, experimenting with cameraless photography, and alternative photographic processes.

Kolčavová teaches and organizes photography lectures and workshops at public and private institutions.  Her photographs have been exhibited at international solo and group exhibitions in the United States, France, Poland, Russia, China, and the Czech Republic. Kolčavová’s work is represented in photography collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and George Eastman House in Rochester, NY.  In 2019, Kolčavová was featured in the FotoFest Houston exhibition Velvet Generation, curated by Steven Evans.