Natalka Prystai was born on 10 June 1899 in Lahodiv, Peremyshliany Powiat, now the Peremyshliany urban hromada, Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.
[1] Studied at the Ukrainian Women's Gymnasium of the Basilian Sisters in Lviv (1917), graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Vienna (1926).
[1] Attended Oleksa Novakivskyi's drawing studio and private lectures.
[2] In March 1923, she was one of the first five students of his Oleksa Novakivskyi Art School [uk].
[1] Prystai-Ohonovska works include embroideries; oil and drawing compositions preserved in private collections of Lviv residents.