Ivona Šimunović was born in Dubrovnik in 1979 where she graduated from Luka Sorkočević School of Arts, painter-designer major. She subsequently graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 2002, from the class of Zlatko Kauzlarić Atač.

She has been a member of the Croatian Artists’Association since 2006.She exhibited at numerous collective shows.

Solo exhibitions:
2009 Traces / Lopud
2010 The Touch of the Real / Talir Gallery, Dubrovnik
2011 The Touch of the Real / Kunkera Gallery, Pag
2020 Rifts in Reality / Dulčić Masle Pulitika Ga-llery, Dubrovnik

Group exhibitions:
2018 Found Paintings / Vizura Aperta, Pelješac
2021 An Insight into the Movements - Artworks from the Momad Collection, Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik

In addition to her art, she is also involved in pedagogical work. She is an art teacher and the idea initiator as well as the organizer of numerous art workshops for children and adults. Since 2020 she works as a curator pedagogue at the Dubrovnik Museum of Modern Art, where she participates in devising, organisation and production of the the museum education programme. She lives and works in Dubrovnik. Her works are to be found in private collections at home and abroad.