[6] Sonia Kacem was born in 1985 in Geneva, Switzerland.

[6] Her mother is Swiss and her father is Tunisian.

She studied at Geneva University of Art and Design,[7] where she obtained a bachelor's degree in 2009 and then a master's degree in 2011.

Kacem was the winner of the Manor Cultural Prize 2014;[6][8] Kiefer Hablitzel Göhner Art Prize in 2015;[8] and the Zurich Art Prize 2021, from the museum Haus Konstruktiv and the Zurich Insurance Group Ltd.[5] From 2016 to 2017, she was awarded a residency and grant from the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, in Amsterdam.

[8] In 2019, she was awarded the residency at Pro Helvetia Cairo.