Hebson attended St. Martins School of Art (1993–96) and then the Royal Academy in London (1997–2000).
In 2008, she was appointed Artist in Residence at Durham Cathedral, and was in 2008 presented with the Sovereign European Art Prize by Jarvis Cocker, Tim Marlow, Sir Peter Blake and Alan Yentob.
In 2005, she won the Duveen Woman Artists Award and the Casson Drawing Prize along with Paula Rego and Frank Auerbach.
In 2008, Hebson was also nominated by Humphrey Ocean RA for The Arts Foundation Fellowship programme.
Hebson has also made a series of intense, romantic and darkly atmospheric seascapes and shipwrecks which are reminiscent of the Gustave Doré prints for Samuel Taylor Coleridge's:The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Nadia Hebson studied at Central Saint Martins and the Royal Academy Schools.