Suzanne C. Nagy

Environmental Artist

Suzanne C. Nagy has lived in the United States since 1978. She earned a Masters degree in Economics and worked in the field for ten years during the era of Socialism in Hungary. In 1980 she studied art at the New York Art League. This experience helped her to create the subject of her paintings and sculptures. During this time she had seven successful one woman show exhibitions and she also participated in several group shows. Nagy opened her first gallery in 1990 in New York City. She opened her second gallery in 2000 where she specializes on XX century art as a collector and art dealer. She also registered and copyrighted a new artform called "Transparentism". Since 2000, she's produced art under the same ideological theme.

In 1977 she received her diploma in film producing and writing in Hungary. Shortly after she moved to New York Nagy worked as a movie producer until 1986. She worked with such names as George Clooney, Louis Fletcher, Charlie Sheen, Laura Dern and Deborah Raffin.

During the late 1980's Nagy created several series of artworks parallel to her movie producing career. Her art style was one of the most dynamic of its time. She started out using abstract expressionism, which she mixed with surrealism and symbolism. Her exhibition history goes back to the early 1980's.

She exhibited a one woman show about the accelerated time and the philosophic task about modern times and living in the changing world.

In 1982 at the National Gallery of Hungary Nagy exhibited the collection called the "Tale of the Clock". In 1987 the same series was shown in the Matignon Gallery on Madison Avenue, New York City. In 1996 Bertelsmann Publishing Company published an art book, which contained thirty-eight artworks and a moving story. In the following years her focus shifted onto the subject of the fall of the socialist dictatorship and regime. Nagy spent four years to create a series of artworks entitled the "Wall". The series was completed in 1989 for her surprise when the events, indeed, took place with the falling of the Berlin Wall. Parallel to these events Nagy also worked on the human motivation and mystical quality of who we are in her series entitled "DNA". In 2001 she eye witnessed the collapse of the World Trade Center and created a series of works entitled "I was an eye witness..." for which she won an award in New York City, and the American Embassy organized an exhibition installation for her work in 2002 in Budapest.

In 2005 Nagy made a multi level installation entitled "Microwave" which was a futuristic project offered an entire history of mankind. This was the first time when she introduced metal and plastic boxes as sculpture installation as well as wood masks from all over the world. This was the beginning where she seriously focused on four-dimensional space, which is the reason why she chose sculpture as her medium.

In 2007 she had an exhibition in Budapest, a five dimensional sculpture installation entitled "Monoliths and Metamorphosis". Nagy owns gallery in Manhattan, and her atelier is at the Lake Balaton.

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"The artist is looking for a mystical connection between life and objects. Nagy is telling stories throughout her art, finding a simplification by representing a playful manner even for complicated subject matters. She then connects meaningful subjects to each other and build them together".