Silvija Lučevnjak was born in Osijek in 1963. After finishing elementary and secondary school in Našice, she studied at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb and earned an MA degree in 1991 in Comparative Literature, Art History and Librarianship.

She worked at the Isidor Kršnjavi Secondary School in Našice as librarian and art teacher. Since 1999 she has worked at the Našice Local History Museum.

Her interests and activities include research into the heritage of the Našice area as well as its presentation and popularisation, both through museum work and activities of other associations, particularly the local branch of the Croatian Matrix. She participates in the organisation of some local events such as the Days of Franciscan Culture, the Dora Pejačević Memorial, the Hinko Juhn Artistic Ceramic Colony, the Slavonian Forests Days Festival and the Hiking Week.

She publishes professional texts in exhibition catalogues and various periodicals and has edited a number of local history publications on various topics. Since 2000, she has been organising in Našice annual meetings of the Museum Association of Eastern Croatia’s Section of Art Historians.

In 2001 she was awarded the annual Osječko-baranjska County Culture Prize for achievements in work.

In 2014, for the achievements in the work on the exhibition about the Pejačević family, she received the annual Osijek and Baranja County Prize for Culture, the Radovan Ivančević Charter of the Association of Art Historians of Croatia for advancing and promoting art history, and the annual Prize of the Croatian Museum Association for an investigative exhibition project.