Born in Bochum in 1959, Germany, Schmidt encountered frequent relocations. Her family moved to Vietnam and Thailand before her sixth birthday. Throughout her youth, she studied with various art instructors and when the time came to commit to a career path, she opted to major in architecture at the Polytechnic University of Barcelona. Schmidt has received multiple awards. In 2018 she received the prestigious Columbia Threadneedle Prize for Figurative Art. She also has been awarded with various prizes at the Art Renewal Center Salon. Her works have been exhibited internationally in individual and group exhibitions, among others, at Sotheby´s and the Salmagundi Club in New York, at the Mall Galleries in central London, at NordArt in Germany, at the MEAM in Barcelona and during the Venice Biennale in Italy. Currently she lives and works as an artist and urban planning architect in Barcelona, Spain