Núria Quevedo was born in Barcelona in 1938 and went into exile in East Berlin with her parents in 1952. From 1958 to 1963, she studied graphic arts at the Weissensee University of the Arts under, among others, Arno Mohr and Werner Klemke, with whom she later became a master student at the Academy of Arts of the GDR from 1968 to 1971. In 1974, she became the first woman artist to receive the Max Lingner Prize. Until 1990, she was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR. Since 1997, Quevedo has lived and worked in Berlin and in Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Catalonia.