Born in Madrid in 1986 and rooted in Andalusian heritage, Inma Herrera studied Fine Arts and Art Creation & Research (MA) at the Complutense University of Madrid, later training as a Print Media Specialist at the Spanish Royal Mint’s School of Printmaking and Graphic Design. In 2014, she moved to Finland with a Postgraduate Award from Obra Social La Caixa to pursue an MFA at Uniarts Helsinki, graduating in 2017.

Her work has been recognized with the Ducat Prize 2020, the Pilar Juncosa & Sotheby’s Biennial Award for Artistic Creation 2019 (with Shirin Salehi), and residencies at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome (2017–18) and ARTICA Svalbard (2022, 2024). She has been nominated for the Queen Sonja Print Award (NO, 2020) and the Kjell Nupen Memorial Grant (2017).

Recent solo exhibitions include A Simple Gesture (F2 Gallery, Madrid, 2025), When We Thought the Sky Was Made of Stone (Sculptor Gallery, Helsinki, 2024), They Change Their Body into Spirit (HAM Gallery, Helsinki, 2023), A Tierra. Nacida de una Roca (Museo Barjola, Gijón, 2023), Solo Project (ARCO Madrid, 2021), and A Fixed Point to Be Oriented (Fundació Miró Mallorca, 2021 - with Shirin Salehi). Selected group exhibitions include Subterranean (Amos Rex, Helsinki, 2022), La vista y el tacto (ca. 1929–30) (Centro Federico García Lorca, Granada, 2021), Vis à Siv (Pas une Orange, Barcelona, 2021), Give Me Space (IPCNY, New York, 2020), Resemblance Through Contact: Grammar of Imprint (Tartu Art House / EKA Tallinn, 2020), Climbing Through the Tide (B7L9, Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Tunis, 2019), Processi 145 (Royal Academy of Spain in Rome, 2018), Crossections (Vienna, Helsinki, Stockholm, 2017–2019), and El Barco de Teseo. AECID Cultural Center. CCE Mexico and Managua / Madrid, 2015-2016).

Alongside her artistic practice, Herrera is a certified Somatic Therapist, Taiyo Martial Arts instructor, Kundalini Yoga practitioner, and student of the Inca Healing Tradition. These embodied and energetic disciplines deeply inform her material- and process-based approach. She is currently based in Helsinki, where she works with bodywork clients, develops her artistic projects, and teaches at Uniarts Helsinki, LUT University, and the Helsinki Healing Arts Center.