She is a granddaughter to the journalist and politician Mito Hadzi-Vasilev Jasmin and a niece to painter Petar Mazev.
In 1986 she moved to Novi Sad to study graphic design at Bogdan Suput, graduating high school in 1990.
In 1992, she travelled to the United Kingdom and started studying at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Hadzi-Vasileva's first major UK exhibition entitled Making Beauty took place in Nottingham, United Kingdom in 2016.
She won the 2013 Alexandra Reinhardt Memorial Award to develop a new commission for the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art and Engage.