Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Aggie Zed grew up in a large family on Sullivan's Island where her childhood hobbies were riding ponies on the beach or playing with plastic horses and cowboys. She was able to draw well and had a creative mind from a young age, but her formal art career began in attending the University of South Carolina and graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Art in Painting and Sculpture in 1974. Living in Richmond, Virginia after receiving her degree, Aggie set up a studio on West Main Street determined to make a career for herself. She re-taught herself ceramics, learned glaze chemistry and began firing unique creations in her own kiln. The first way she modestly supported herself through her art was by designing and producing highly stylized ceramic chess sets. In the early 80s, she was invited to exhibit her 200 nude ceramic figurines for an arts festival, which were photographed by Richmond Newspapers and then purchased by a local collector. This moment to her represented that she could have an “audience for work other than chess sets” and awakened a desire to communicate through her art. After the initial attention, Aggie began showing her work in local galleries, and in 1982 was awarded a Virginia Museum fellowship. This fellowship opportunity enabled her to develop other art forms such as creating delicate ceramic structures, some with horses which eventually became a trademark. In 1986, she even received a National Endowment for the Arts award in sculpture. Aggie’s work in clay evolved to become a widely collected series of human-animal hybrid figures with which she has made a living. Her sculpture ranges from intimately scaled ceramic figures of people and human-animal hybrids to copper wire and ceramic horses to ceramic and mixed-metals contrivances she calls "scrap floats". Her scrap floats are intended as entries in a parade of the future.​ She is now easily one of Richmond’s most well-known artists and is collected and shown in galleries across the country. Another element of Aggie’s art career is her paintings and drawings of dry pastel and various inks with water on paper, which she keeps separate from her sculptures. Her drawings and paintings celebrate the beauty and strangeness of dreams posed against the absurdity and poignancy of supposedly rational human activity. She currently lives with her husband in Gordonsville, Virginia where she keeps a variety of animals in her life, including chickens.