Kika Karadi was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1975, immigrating to the United States in 1986. She attended New World School of the Arts in Miami and received her BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1997.

Kika Karadi lives and works in New York. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United states and Europe, including the Expanded Painting Section of Prague Biennale and the 51st Venice Biennale at the Museo Storico Navale. Her museum exhibitions include Artium-Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo in Spain and Centre Pasquart – Kunsthaus Centre d’Art in Switzerland. Reviews of her exhibitions may be found in Artforum, Flash Art, Miami Herald, The Art Newspaper and various other publications.