Katiuska Saavedra was born in 1980 in Holguin, Cuba. She currently lives and works in Mexico City and Cuba. She studied at the faculties of Performing and Plastic Arts at the Superior Institute of Art in Havana (ISA), at the Active School of Photography in Mexico City, and received a Bachelor's in Art Education from the University of Baja California, Colima.

Saavedra has had solo exhibitions at Nina Menocal Gallery in Mexico City, the Salle Zéro at the Alliance Française of Cuba, and many other spaces. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, primarily in Mexican institutions such as the Museum of Photography (MAF), Photo Archive INAH, Museum Ex Teresa Arte Actual, ADM Center, Cuale Cultural Center, La Sala Arte espacio, and the ENTIJUANARTE Festival, as well as at the University of Guanajuato, Nina Menocal Gallery, Zona MACO, among many others. She exhibited at the Mercosur Biennial in Brazil. In Cuba, she has been invited to participate in collateral exhibitions at the latest editions of the Havana Biennial, and has exhibited at the prestigious Wilfredo Lam Contemporary Art Center. In the United States, she has exhibited her work at the Sheldon Museum, Edges Zone Art Center, Miami, and The Cuban Art Space in New York, among others. She has also exhibited her work at festivals in Amsterdam, Bogotá, and Amposta, Spain.

Her work is part of important collections such as the Sheldon Museum of Art in Lincoln, New England, and the Goldberg Collection at the Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn Harbor, New York.