In 1936–1939 she studied in the Leningrad Secondary Art School at the All-Russian Academy of Arts. Her teachers were Leonid Ovsyannikov, Alexander Zaytsev, Leonid Sholokhov, Alexander Debler, Vladimir Gorb.
In 1939 Antipova entered the painting department of the Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (since 1944 named after Ilia Repin), where she studied of Semion Abugov, Genrikh Pavlovsky, Alexander Osmerkin, Gleb Savinov, and Vladimir Malagis. In 1939 Antipova at first participated in the All-Union Youth Artistic Exhibition in Moscow, presenting the sketch of work «Valery Chkalov among young people». It was printed in a magazine the «Young Artist» for 1939.
In 1950–1956 Antipova taught painting and composition in Tavricheskaya Art School in Leningrad. Since 1950 she participated in art exhibitions. In 1953 she was accepted in the members of Leningrad Union of Artists.[5] Antipova painted genre and decorative compositions, portraits, landscapes, still life paintings, worked in oils and watercolours. Among her favorite themes and motives were a blossoming apple orchard, the Crimean landscape, still life in interior and in exterior.
Antipova gravitated to expression of her individual attitude in themes, not applying on the exhaustive scope of the phenomenas of the life.
Evgenia Antipova had personal exhibitions in Leningrad — Saint Petersburg in 1967, 1988, 1999 (all together with a husband and artist Victor Teterin), and in 2007. In 1989–1992 paintings by Antipova successfully exhibited at fine art auctions and exhibitions of Russian paintings L \'Ecole de Leningrad in France.
Her paintings reside in the State Russian Museum, and in many art museums and private collections in Russia, France, Germany, USA, England, and others.