Arthur Nager received a MFA degree in photography from Visual Studies Workshop in 1976 and a BA in History and Psychology from the University of Rochester in 1970. During this time he worked at the George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography in the Exhibitions Department installing and cataloging the work of noted photographers. He subsequently taught at the Center of the Eye in Aspen, Colorado and the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado from 1971– 1973. In 1973 Nager became Director of the Photography Program at the University of Bridgeport with the responsibility of developing both a fine art and commercial curriculum. He became a tenured Associate Professor and supervised the expansion of the program and the establishment of a photography lecture series that brought numerous photographers to the University.Arthur Nager was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for study at Columbia University in a program supervised by the noted Art Historian, Theodore Reff. Nager has exhibited work in numerous solo and group shows including the Slater Memorial Museum, Lake Placid Center for the Arts, Texas Tech University, Housatonic College, and The Carriage Barn Art Center, New Canaan, CT, Praxis Photo Gallery, MN, The Griffin Museum, MA, Umbrella Arts and the Ilon Art Gallery, NYC. His solo exhibition Street Life was on display at Norwalk Community College in November of 2014.His solo exhibition Times Square Photographs ran from May 3-June 3, 2017 at the Fahey/Bodell Umbrella Arts Gallery in NYC. A catalog for the show includes a detailed analysis of the work by noted Art Historian, Bruce Glaser.The Social Landscape – Connecticut Towns and Cities in Transition, was a large solo exhibition at Trinity College that featured his work documenting the changing architecture of former factory towns in the Naugatuck Valley. Central Park Photographs was exhibited in a solo show at the Ilon Gallery in NYC, from October 12 - November 16, 2018. Arthur Nager’s upcoming solo show will take place in Rome, Italy, opening on May 20, 2023 and will feature work from the series Colorado Photographs, 1972.Arthur Nager’s photographs are in the permanent collection of the George Eastman House, The South Street Seaport Museum, Kennebunk Museum, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History and the Westport Art Collection, along with numerous academic institutions. Nager’s recent book publications include, Times Square Photographs, Central Park, and Wrestling at Sunnyside Garden Arena, 1971.
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