Nataly Maier was born in Munich, Germany, in 1957, but she lives and works in Milan.
After studying philosophy at the Leibniz-Kolleg in Tubingen, from 1979 to 1980, she attended a school of photography in Munich. Since the late '70s, she has been a professional photographer and, by the end of the '80s, she began her research as an artist, devoting herself to the overtaking of two-dimensionality in photography, by applying some images on three-dimensional supports (i.e. a sectioned photographic image of an orange on an orange-like object), thus giving them a plastic value. Today, Maier's research follows a conceptual sphere. She creates diptychs made up of reflective aluminum on one side, where there's a writing that evokes literary or abstract images and, on the other side, painted with a color that represents the state of mind or the emotion expressed by the word chosen.

Among Maier's most important recent exhibitions, it's worth mentioning her first solo show at Galleria L’Attico of Rome in 1992, the one at Goethe Loft of Lyon in 2000, year in which she also created more than 200 works for the Inn Side Residence Hotel of Munich. In 2001, the exhibition entitled Homage an eine Sehnsucht was presented at Villa Romana in Florence. Still in 2001, a large lemon-shaped sculpture was installed in the city of Palma de Majorca in Spain. In 2004, Maier participated in a collective exhibition presented at the European Central Bank in Frankfort and created a splendid mosaic for the headquarters of the Capitaneria di Porto in Ravenna. Maier's relationship with Galleria Fumagalli began in 1999, with the presentation of the book entitled Hand maps, and the exhibition of some works of the homonymous series. In 2001, her solo show entitled In res naturae was also presented there.