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'''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 School of Design]], receiving a degree in [[communication design]] in 1981.<ref name="Mousse">{{cite web |title=Trademark Artist: Peter Nagy • |url=http://moussemagazine.it/peter-nagy-wendy-vogel-2020/ |website=Mousse Magazine |language=it-IT |date=2 July 2020}}</ref>

== Career as gallerist ==

With the artist Alan Belcher, Nagy opened [[Gallery Nature Morte]] in [[East Village, Manhattan]], New York City in 1982.<ref name="Hoffmann2004">{{cite book|author=Jens Hoffmann|title=The next Documenta should be curated by an artist|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FK5PAAAAMAAJ|access-date=15 August 2011|year=2004|publisher=Revolver, Archiv für aktuelle Kunst|isbn=9783936919059}}</ref><ref name=Goldsworthy>{{cite web|last=Goldsworthy|first=Rupert|title=Peter Nagy's Long Indian Summer|url=http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/conversations/2010-05-19/peter-nagy-nature-morte/|work=[[Art in America]]|publisher=Brant Publications|access-date=15 August 2011|date=19 May 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323060959/http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/conversations/2010-05-19/peter-nagy-nature-morte/|archive-date=23 March 2012}}</ref> Nagy was a part of a generation of the East Village artist-gallery owners who established a small and rough but trendy [[avant-garde]] alternative to the established [[SoHo]] art scene.<ref name="LLC1987">{{cite journal|author=New York Media|title=New York Magazine|journal=Newyorkmetro.com.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cuQCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA49|access-date=16 August 2011|date=22 June 1987|publisher=New York Media, LLC|pages=49–55|issn=0028-7369}}</ref> The gallery was open for six years, until 1988.<ref name=Goldsworthy/> They combined [[conceptualism]] and [[pop art]], exploring the relationship between the art and the [[commodity]].<ref>''Peter Nagy on Decades as an Artist and Dealer Both'', [[ArtNews]], Anne Duran, July 24, 2020 [https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/peter-nagy-deitch-gallery-show-1202695250/]</ref><ref name="LLC1990">{{cite journal|author=New York Media|title=New York Magazine|journal=Newyorkmetro.com.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kjQtw7f_7TIC&pg=PA46|access-date=16 August 2011|date=25 June 1990|publisher=New York Media|pages=46–52|issn=0028-7369}}</ref>

In 1992, Nagy moved to New Delhi where he revived Gallery Nature Morte in 1997.<ref name="D'Costa2010">{{cite book|author=Anthony P. D'Costa|title=A New India?: Critical Reflections in the Long Twentieth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vvvXQPSnrv4C&pg=PA181|access-date=15 August 2011|date=1 December 2010|publisher=Anthem Press|isbn=978-0-85728-664-2|pages=181–}}</ref><ref name="ArchitectureDigestIndia">{{cite web |last1=Mehra |first1=Pallavi |title=Nature Morte |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.in/content/nature-morte/ |website=Architectural Digest India|date=24 October 2019 }}</ref> The Indian artist [[Subodh Gupta]] has said of him: "he has fresh eyes and has provided a platform for contemporary artists."<ref name="business-standard1">{{cite news|author=Business Standard |url=http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/an-eye-for-talent/444963/ |title=An eye for talent |newspaper=Business Standard India |publisher=Business-standard.com |date=2011-08-06 |access-date=2011-08-15}}</ref> In 2021 the gallery opened two additional exhibition spaces in Delhi.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jayakar |first1=Devyani |title=Nature Morte opens two new galleries in New Delhi |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.in/story/nature-morte-opens-two-new-galleries-in-delhi/ |website=Architectural Digest India|date=24 April 2021 }}</ref>

==Art career==
In the early 1980s Nagy became known for works he created by mixing painting techniques with the technology of [[Xerox]] photocopy machines.<ref name="ConnectedBook">{{cite book |last1=Eklund |first1=Douglas |last2=Alteveer |first2=Ian |last3=Brown |first3=Meredith A. |last4=Miller |first4=John |last5=Olmsted |first5=Kathryn |last6=Saunders |first6=Beth |last7=Lethem |first7=Jonathan |title=Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy |date=17 September 2018 |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art |isbn=978-1-58839-659-4 |url=https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Everything_Is_Connected/Sh9tDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=peter+nagy+photocopy&pg=PA50&printsec=frontcover |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=New York Magazine |date=14 November 1988|publisher=New York Media|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s-MCAAAAMBAJ&dq=peter+nagy+photocopy&pg=PA92 |language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref name="ConnectedBook"/><ref name="ArtforumReview"/>

Nagy's work is included in the collection of the [[Whitney Museum]],<ref name="Whitney">{{cite web |title=Peter Nagy |url=https://whitney.org/artists/5073 |website=whitney.org |language=en}}</ref> the [[Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art]],<ref name="LAMOCA">{{cite web |title=Overwhelmed by the Imagination |url=https://www.moca.org/collection/work/overwhelmed-by-the-imagination |website=www.moca.org}}</ref> the [[Brooklyn Museum]]<ref name="BrooklynMuseum">{{cite web |title=Brooklyn Museum |url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/161647 |website=www.brooklynmuseum.org}}</ref> and the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]].<ref name="MET">{{cite web |title=International Survey Condominiums |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/401253?searchField=All&sortBy=Relevance&ft=Peter+Nagy&offset=0&rpp=20&pos=1 |website=www.metmuseum.org}}</ref>

In 2014 Eisbox Projects published an exhaustive account of Nagy's work by [[Richard Milazzo]] in the book ''PETER NAGY, Entertainment Erases History: Works 1982 to 2004 to the Present''. In 2020, [[Deitch Projects]] in New York City held a retrospective exhibition of Nagy's works from the 1980s.<ref name="ArtforumReview">{{cite web |title=Jan Avgikos on Peter Nagy |url=https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/202007/peter-nagy-83701 |website=www.artforum.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Doran |first1=Anne |title=Peter Nagy on Decades as an Artist and Dealer Both: 'You Don't Realize How Fast the Art World Can Spin on a Dime' |url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/peter-nagy-deitch-gallery-show-1202695250/ |website=ARTnews.com |date=24 July 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Peter Nagy "Entertainment Erases History" Jeffrey Deitch / New York {{!}} |url=https://flash---art.com/2020/03/on-view-by-flash-art-peter-nagy-entertainment-erases-history-jeffrey-deitch-new-york/ |website=Flash Art |date=26 March 2020}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Post-conceptual art]]
* [[Conceptual art]]

== References ==
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== Further reading ==
*[[Richard Milazzo]], "Peter Nagy: Entertainment Erases History. Works 1982 to 2004 to the Present" Brooklyn, Eisbox Projects (2014)
*''Peter Nagy on Decades as an Artist and Dealer Both'', [[ArtNews]], Anne Duran, July 24, 2020 [https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/peter-nagy-deitch-gallery-show-1202695250/]

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