Peter Nagy (born 1959) is an American artist and gallerist. Nagy is the owner of

Gallery Nature Morte Peter Nagy (born 1959) is an American artist and gallerist. Nagy is the owner of Gallery Nature Morte, founded in New York City and now located in India. Early life Nagy was born in 1959 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He studied at the Parsons Sch ...

, founded in New York City and now located in India.

Early life

Nagy was born in 1959 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He studied at the

Parsons School of Design Parsons School of Design, known colloquially as Parsons, is a private art and design college located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Founded in 1896 after a group of progressive artists broke away from established Manhatt ...

, receiving a degree in

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in 1981.

Career as gallerist

With the artist Alan Belcher, Nagy opened

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, New York City in 1982. Nagy was a part of a generation of the East Village artist-gallery owners who established a small and rough but trendy

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alternative to the established

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art scene. The gallery was open for six years, until 1988. They combined

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and pop art, exploring the relationship between the art and the

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. In 1992, Nagy moved to New Delhi where he revived Gallery Nature Morte in 1997. The Indian artist Subodh Gupta has said of him: "he has fresh eyes and has provided a platform for contemporary artists." In 2021 the gallery opened two additional exhibition spaces in Delhi.

Art career

In the early 1980s Nagy became known for works he created by mixing painting techniques with the technology of

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photocopy machines. One series executed during this period, ''International Survey Condominiums'', used photocopying as a tool to combine timelines of art history with the floorplans of art museums. Nagy's work is included in the collection of the

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, the

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, the

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and the

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. In 2014 Eisbox Projects published an exhaustive account of Nagy's work by

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in the book ''PETER NAGY, Entertainment Erases History: Works 1982 to 2004 to the Present''. In 2020,

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in New York City held a retrospective exhibition of Nagy's works from the 1980s.

Early life

Career as gallerist

Art career

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