Doug Glovaski was born on December 25th, 1951 in Saginaw, Michigan. He moved with his parents to the small town of Los Gatos, Ca. in 1958. When he was around nine years old his parents began encouraging him to draw and paint. Glovaski would continue to pursue his interest in art through high school. After high school Glovaski entered the work force where he remained for several years working at mediocre jobs that would eventually cause him to have an epiphany at the age of thirty-five. It was then that he realized he could no longer work at these kind of jobs without pursuing his lifelong dream of being a professional artist. Glovaski set about formulating a plan to achieve this dream. While working at his regular job, Glovaski began producing a body of paintings whenever he could ( mostly evenings and weekends). He then began making contact with local art consultants to show and sell his work.
His first shows were at local restaurants and cafe's in the bay area. It was at one of these restaurants that two of Glovaski's large canvases were first noticed by prominent local gallery owner Frederick Spratt. This would be the beginning of a long and fruitful relationship between Spratt and Glovaski.
In 1989 Glovaski would meet and soon after marry his wife Jana. The two both grew up in Los Gatos and had even attended some of the same schools throughout their childhood. They were to spend their first five years of marriage in Los Gatos before moving to San Francisco.
In early 1992, through Spratt, Glovaski was to meet and subsequently work for the well known New York artist Dorothea Rockburne. Glovaski would be asked to assist Rockburne and her crew with one of her large wall paintings at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown San Jose. He was asked again by Ms. Rockburne in late 1992 to assist her with another large wall painting. This one would be at Sony headquarters in Manhattan and would take twelve people six weeks to complete. The experience of being in New York for an extended period of time and seeing the art world up close would forever change Glovaski's sensibilities about art and his own work in particular.
Glovaski was to be invited on three more occasions to New York to assist Ms. Rockburne with her projects. The last two of which he would be the principle and sole painter.

Glovaski and his wife moved to San Francisco, Ca. in 1995 where they would remain for the next seven years. After a three year move to Marin county they would again come back to San Francisco in 2005. While in San Francisco, Glovaski would meet gallery owner Lisa Chadwick of the Dolby/Chadwick Gallery . Together they would form a working relationship that exists to this day. In 2002, Glovaski would also be introduced by Chadwick to Gaines Peyton of the Sears-Peyton Gallery in New York where he is currently represented. He is also represented most recently by the Ruth Bachofner Gallery in Santa Monica, Ca.

In late 2008, Glovaski and his wife of almost twenty years moved to the small town of Pacific Grove, Ca. on the Monterey peninsula. Glovaski continues to work in his small studio and show his paintings when he can.
In 1996 Glovaski was the recipient of the coveted Pollock/Krasner Foundation Grant. His work appears in several Institutional, corporate, and private collections including the Fogg Museum in Cambridge, Mass., The Achenbach Collection at the Palace Legion of Honor in San Francisco, Ca. and the Permanent Collection at the San Jose Museum of Art.