Nathalie Obadia

With spaces in Paris and Brussels., Galerie Nathalie Obadia is a contemporary art gallery of international stature.

Nathalie Obadia is born in 1962 in Toulouse. She had wanted to run a gallery since she was a child. Her parents were early collectors of artists from Narrative Figuration and Pop Art. They passed on their passion for contemporary art to their daughter by bringing her to museums and galleries.

When a teenager, Nathalie Obadia took advantage of her first internship opportunities to learn about gallery management at Daniel Varenne, in Genova, and Adrien Maeght, in Paris. After a master in law and graduating from the Paris Institute of Political Studies, she worked at the Galerie Daniel Templon from 1988 to 1992.

In 1993 Nathalie Obadia opened her first gallery in the Marais in Paris. In this 40 square-metre space she showed work by the new generation of French artists, including Carole Benzaken (Prix Marcel Duchamp, 2004), Valérie Favre and Pascal Pinaud, who were later joined by numerous international artists, notably the American , the German Albert Oehlen, the British Fiona Rae and the Filipino Manuel Ocampo.

In 1995 she moved into a much larger space close to the Centre Pompidou where she resolutely backed her artistic choices and intuitions on the world art market, exhibiting artists like Frank Nitsche and Lorna Simpson, whose first French exhibitions she mounted, or supporting confirmed figures like Jean-Marc Bustamante, Wim Delvoye and Shirley Jaffe.

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