Kristi Kongi was born in 1985. She graduated from the Tartu Art College and the Estonian Academy of Art (MA cum laude) with a degree in painting and has also studied at the Lahti University of Applied Sciences. She has had personal exhibitions in Tallinn and Tartu art institutions, in Vilnius, Riga and Helsinki. In 2013, she received the Sadolin Art Prize, the oldest private capital-based art prize in Estonia.