She holds an M.F.A. in painting from Yale University, a B.F.A. from the Cleveland Institute of Art and a B.A. from Hampshire College. Kerber has been the recipient of several awards and residencies, including a residency at the Vermont Studio Center (2013), The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1979), The Dagaocun Artist in Residency Programme in Beijing (2008) and The Berlin Collective Artist Residency Program at the APT studios in Brooklyn (2014). Her work has been exhibited in Berlin, New York, Philadelphia and in Beijing. In 2013 she was a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant recipient.