Printmaker and painter Ingrid Davis was born in West Berlin, Germany around 1930. While there she learned oil painting and pastels, and when she came to the U.S. in 1958 she enrolled in courses at the Art Students League, the Brooklyn Museum School, and the Parsons School of Design in New York. In 1976 she traveled to Japan where she learned about rice paper collage. 

Davis currently lives and works in East Windsor, New Jersey. She was given a retrospective in 2012 at the Plainsboro Public Library in New Jersey, and in 2019 she was a part of the The Art Station studios in Hightstown, NJ. She has been afiliated with Art League of Alexandria, VA; Antic and Design Gallery, Dresden, Germany; and the Hudson Artists Association (Jersey City).

Her work is held in the collections of the Library of Congress, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the National Museum of American History, and more. She earned a first place award in Graphic Arts from the Miniature Art Society of New Jersey; third place award in Graphic Art from the Hudson Artists Association; and the Judges Award for her white-line woodcuts.