Simona Dvorák was born in Czechoslovakia and is currently based in Greater Paris. As a curator and art historian, she combines curatorial practice with research and writing. Her work focuses on the performativity of social and epistemic justice and on critically engaging with historical narratives.
She is curator at the Initiative for Practices and Visions of Radical Care, founded by Nataša Petrešin Bachelez and Elena Sorokina, where she explores living archives and the intersections of art and care. Within the Initiative, she has contributed to projects such as On Care and Resilience at documenta fifteen (2022), participation in the 12th Liverpool Biennial (2023), contributions to Colomboscope in Sri Lanka (2024), Care as Methodology with AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions (2024–2025), and the exhibition Resonant: Bodies, Songs, and Strings (2025), co-curated with Elena Sorokina at the Museum of Sufi Art and Culture MTO in Paris.

Dvorák has collaborated with numerous institutions, including the National Gallery Prague, Centre Pompidou (Paris), Musée Picasso–Paris, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Frac Île-de-France, Cité internationale des arts, Rockbund Art Museum (Shanghai), SAVVY Contemporary and Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), and the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. She was a fellow at documenta fifteen (2022) in Kassel and contributed to the public program Walking with Water for the Serbian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale. As part of the curatorial team, she worked on the exhibition When Solidarity Is Not A Metaphor, for the 60th Venice Biennale, in collaboration with Alserkal Initiatives and the Cité internationale des arts. Between 2021 and 2023, she served as Curator for Public Programs at the Centre Pompidou, and in 2023, she co-curated the project actes de langage at Maison Populaire in Montreuil with Tadeo Kohan. Most recently, she worked as Associate Curator at the Cité internationale des arts.
Her curatorial practice is rooted in collectivity as a working method, developed through projects such as The Coming Community (with Tadeo Kohan) and the discursive initiative on carefull organizing (with researcher Luise Willer), realized within the Mercator Fellowship 2025.