She was born in Leningrad on May 30, 1965. In 1974, she began to study fine arts at the children's art school under the guidance of Sergei Daniel.

In 1985, she entered the Leningrad Higher School of Art and Industry named after V. I. Mukhina (now the St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry named after A. L. Stieglitz).

She studied painting in the workshops of Alexander Zaitsev and Stanislav Mosevich. Since 1989, Zemlyanaya has participated in all exhibitions of the Parallel group.

Since 2014, she has been the organizer and curator of several art projects, exhibitions and festivals. In 2018, she was awarded the "Master's Hat" at the International Art Festival "Master Class" for continuing the development of the traditions of "St. Petersburg Structuralism". Member of the Association "Free Culture" since 1991. Member of the International Federation of Artists IFA since 2015.
Member of the Union of Artists of Russia since 2017.

From 1992 to 2023, 18 solo exhibitions took place (8 of them were museum exhibitions). Russian Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), Pskov-Izborsky Museum-Reserve (Pskov), Murmansk Regional Art Museum (Murmansk), Scientific Library of the Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), Library of Book Graphics of the Interdistrict Centralized Library System named after M. Yu. Lermontov (St. Petersburg), Natalia Zemlyana's works are kept in the collections of the State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), Pskov-Izborsky Museum-Reserve (Pskov), Murmansk Regional Art Museum (Murmansk), Scientific Library of the Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), Library of Book Graphics of the Interdistrict Centralized Library System named after M. Yu. Lermontov (St. Petersburg), in the Scientific Library of the Hermitage (St. Petersburg), in the Museum of Art of St. Petersburg of the XX-XXI centuries (St. Petersburg), the State Museum of Urban Sculpture (St. Petersburg), in the Mordovian Republican Museum of Fine Arts named after S. D. Erzi (Saransk), as well as in private collections in Russia, Germany, Norway, Australia, USA, Switzerland, France, Canada.

selected personal exhibitions

● 2023 CREATION OF THE World, Russian Museum (St. Petersburg)

● 2023 FLAT LUX / LET THERE BE LIGHT, CSI Winery, Totibadze Gallery (Moscow)

● 2022 BEAUTY SUITE, JFC Jazz Club (St. Petersburg)

● 2021 CO-CREATION, Pskov-Izborsky United Museum-Reserve Dvor Postnikov (Pskov)

● 2021 UNREAL REAL, Vnutri Gallery (St. Petersburg)

● 2020 IN THE OPEN AIR, Izborsk State Museum-Reserve (Izborsk)

● 2019 COLOR & MUSIC, Fine Art Gallery (Moscow)

● 2019 ANGELS, Simonov Monastery (Moscow)

● 2017 STRUCTURAL LINE, Bashmet Center (Moscow)

● 2015 CREATION OF THE WORLD, A.Akhmatova Fountain House Museum (St. Petersburg)

● 2015 RITMTSVET, Master Gallery (St. Petersburg)

● 2015 STRUCTURAL LINE, A.L.Stieglitz Academy Museum (St. Petersburg)

● 2013 VIBRATIONS OF COLOR, St. Petersburg Avant-Garde Museum, M.V.Matyushin House (St. Petersburg)

● 1997 SOLO EXHIBITION, the Museum of the History of the city (St. Petersburg)

● 1996 SOLO EXHIBITION, House of Friendship of Peoples (St. Petersburg)

● 1995 SOLO EXHIBITION, BUFF Theatre (St. Petersburg)

● 1994 SOLO EXHIBITION, Jazz Philharmonic Hall Gallery, (St. Petersburg)

● 1993 SOLO EXHIBITION, Kirov Art Museum, Central Exhibition Hall (Kirov)

● 1992 SOLO EXHIBITION, Prospettive d'ART Gallery (Hamburg)