Tatyana Kerner was born in evacuation in Stalingrad. She graduated from the Secondary Art School at the Academy of Arts and from the Department of Stage Design at Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music, and Cinematography. She worked as an artist at Lennauchfilm, led a printmaking club at the Pioneer Palace, and mainly earned her living as a stoker and sailor. She died by suicide at the age of 31.
