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

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Early life

She was born in

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. As a teenager, Nathalie Obadia completed an internship at Daniel Varenne, in

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, and Adrien Maeght, in

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. She studied a master's degree in Law at the

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, then worked at the Galerie Daniel Templon from 1988 to 1992.

Career

She opened her first gallery in 1993, in

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in Paris. The gallery included work by a generation of French artists, including Carole Benzaken ( Prix Marcel Duchamp, 2004),

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and Pascal Pinaud. Later the gallery expanded to include international artists, including

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, Albert Oehlen,

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and Manuel Ocampo. In 1995, Nathalie Obadia opened a larger gallery near the

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in Paris that moved to its current address in 2003. 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).

Honours

* Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters

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, 27 February 2009, « Nathalie Obadia, une lionne des affaires et un officier des Arts et des Lettres » * Knight of the National Order of Merit

Represented artists

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* Edgar Arceneaux *

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* Luc Delahaye * Shirley Jaffe * Seydou Keïta * Lu Chao *

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* Manuel Ocampo *

Chloe Piene Chloe Piene is a visual artist known primarily for her drawing. It has been described as “brutal, delicate, figurative, forensic, erotic and fantastic.” Chloe Piene was born in the United States and received her BA in Art History at Columbia Un ...

Laure Prouvost Laure Prouvost (born 1978) is a French artist living and working in Antwerp, Belgium. She won the 2013 Turner Prize. In 2019, she represented France at the Venice Biennale with the multi-media work "The Deep Blue Sea Surrounding You". Career Pr ...

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* Andres Serrano *

Lorna Simpson Lorna Simpson (born August 13, 1960) is an American photographer and multimedia artist. She came to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s with artworks such as ''Guarded Conditions'' and ''Square Deal''. Simpson is most well-known for her work in c ...

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Nicola Tyson Nicola Tyson (born 1960 in London) is a British painter who lives in New York. Her work consists of what she describes as "psycho-figuration", and is primarily concerned with issues of identity, gender and sexuality. Early life Tyson was bor ...

* Agnès Varda *

Brenna Youngblood Brenna Youngblood (born 1979) is an American artist based in Los Angeles who is known for creating photographic collages, sculpture, and paintings. Her work explores issues of African-American identity and representation. Education Youngblood re ...

* Xu Zhen by MadeIn Company

References

External links

Site internet de la Galerie Nathalie Obadia
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