She has participated in several workshops in Slovakia, Poland, and Hungary, and in 2020 completed a residency at Cité internationale des Arts in France. She has held numerous group and solo exhibitions in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Austria, Bulgaria, and France. In 2020, she became the laureate of the Painting of the Year 2020 competition. That same year, she received the Dean’s Award for the best bachelor’s thesis, extracurricular activities, and representation of the Faculty of Fine Arts. In 2021, she impressed the jury of the Strabag Artaward International 2021, reaching the finals and receiving a Recognition Award. Since 2019, she has been the author and organizer of the discussion format Conversations, originally created for the Faculty of Fine Arts in Banská Bystrica. In her work, Natália Šimonová explores collective and personal memory, thematically depicting motifs of urban architecture and its structures, such as socialist-era playgrounds. She processes these themes through visually powerful and widely recognizable motifs. The artist subjects everything to the question of destruction, portrayed through both traditional and non-traditional painting materials, working with rust as a processual and constantly changing element. She is currently also researching other organic materials, such as mold. Alongside the gradual transformation of motifs, she increasingly and more elaborately engages with the architecture of exhibitions themselves, showing a tendency to move beyond the flat wall surface into spatial installations. She lives and works in Prašice near Topoľčany.