 Nathalie Braun Barends was born in Germany and grew up mostly in Brasil and Chile.From 1987 to 1991, she attended the University of São Paulo in Paulista where in 1994, she earned a Latu Sensu degree in International Marketing.In 1993 she exhibited at the House of Japanese culture and in 1994 she made her first solo exhibition at the Goethe Institute of São Paulo.