Inna Babaeva was born in Lviv, Ukraine, and she lives and works in New York City.

She recently had solo exhibitions at the Hofstra University Art Gallery, Hempstead, NY (2021), Peep Space, Tarrytown, NY (2021), Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY (2021), Essex Flowers, New York, NY (2020), Art in Buildings, New York, NY (2017) and at TSA, Brooklyn, NY (2016). Her work has been shown recently in group exhibitions at the FlintInstitute of Arts, Flint, MI, Gordon Galleries at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA (2018), Kienzie Art Foundation, Berlin, Germany, and Songs for Presidents, Brooklyn, NY. Babaeva’s work has been featured in Two Coats of Paint, VICE Magazine, December Magazine, ArtFCity, SLEEK Magazine, Sculpture Center Notebooks, Glass Quarterly, and Art News. Babaeva is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation grant (2007), a Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program grant (2015), a Visiting Artist Fellowship grant at Urban Glass (2017), Pittsburgh Glass Center’s Ron Desmett Award (2022), and she was a Rema Hort Mann Foundation grant nominee (2016). Her work is in the permanent collection of the Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI. Babaeva received her BFA from Florida Atlantic University and her MFA from Rutgers University.