Nathalie Obadia

Nathalie Obadia (born 14 March 1962) is a French art gallery owner. She specialises in contemporary art.

Galerie Nathalie Obadia in Paris

Early life

She was born in Toulouse, France. As a teenager, Nathalie Obadia completed an internship at Daniel Varenne, in Genova, and Adrien Maeght, in Paris. She studied a master's degree in Law at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, then worked at the Galerie Daniel Templon from 1988 to 1992.

Career

She opened her first gallery in 1993, in Marais in Paris.[1] The gallery included work by a generation of French artists, including Carole Benzaken (Prix Marcel Duchamp, 2004), Valérie Favre and Pascal Pinaud. Later the gallery expanded to include international artists, including Jessica Stockholder, Albert Oehlen, Fiona Rae and Manuel Ocampo.

In 1995, Nathalie Obadia opened a larger gallery near the Pompidou Centre in Paris[2] that moved to its current address in 2003.[3]

From 2005 to 2008 she was vice president of the 'Comité professionnel des galeries d'art (CPGA)', a French association that aims to represent French art galleries to public authorities.

She opened a new space in 2013.

Obadia teaches a class on 'Analysis of the Contemporary Art Market' at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po, Paris).[4]

Art fairs

Galerie Nathalie Obadia exhibits regularly at leading art fairs, notably the three Art Basel events (Basel, Miami, Hong Kong), FIAC (Paris), The Armory Show (New York City), Art Dubai (Dubai), Artgenève (Geneva), Frieze (New York City), Art Brussels (Brussels), and Paris Photo (Paris).

Honours
  • Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters [5]
  • Knight of the National Order of Merit

Represented artists

References
  1. Les Echos, 18 October 2007, "Nathalie Obadia, la tueuse-née"
  2. paris-art.com, « Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Bourg-Tibourg »
  3. Le Monde, 30 September 2003, « Déménagement artistique »,
  4. science-po.fr
  5. Le Figaro, 27 February 2009, « Nathalie Obadia, une lionne des affaires et un officier des Arts et des Lettres »
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