She served as director general and chief curator of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts from 2007 to 2020.

[2] Nathalie Bondil holds a degree in art history from the École du Louvre.

[3] From 1996 to 1998, she worked at the Musée National des Monuments Français (which now forms part of the Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine) as curator in charge of museography for the galleries dedicated to the 17th to 20th centuries, as part of the museum's renovation.

[4][5] In 1999, she was hired as curator for European art from 1800 to 1945, and in 2000, promoted to chief curator,[6] taking charge of the Curatorial Department, Conservation, the Library, Archives, Publishing and Exhibitions at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

In July 2020 Bondil was fired by the museum's chairman of the board, Michel de la Chennelière.