Havilah Aos studied at the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul, Minnesota from 2008 to 2010 and later, after interrupting her studies to live and work in Germany and travel along the western coast of North and South America, she transferred to the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis where she completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2017. 

She uses sculpture and installation involving gathered and everyday hardware store materials to create objects and environments that reproduce transformative or destructive events in the natural and man-made world.