Seth / Ezra Dager is an American artist based between New York City and Nashville, Indiana, currently where his studio resides. His practice moves across photography, moving image, sound, writing, objects, archives and systems, exploring how meaning becomes visible through attention, context, and time.

Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Dager studied at Indiana University before living and working in France, London and New York. For nearly two decades, he worked as a creative director, developing campaigns, films, products, brands and creative systems for global organizations. That career developed a way of thinking across disciplines—organizing ideas, identity, image, language and experience into coherent systems—that would later become fundamental to his artistic practice.

Alongside this work, Dager maintained an evolving practice of photography, writing, collecting, music, travel and documentation. Photographs accumulated. Objects were kept. Places were returned to. Music repeated. Ordinary moments were recorded without necessarily knowing what they would become.

In 2024, these different ways of working began to cohere into EZRA, a living art practice built through sustained attention. Rather than assigning meaning in advance, the practice allows relationships to emerge through accumulation, proximity, duration, return and care.

In 2025, after fourteen years living in New York City, Dager established his home and studio at The Rigley Field, a ten-acre property in Nashville, Indiana, originally built and inhabited by artist Frederick Rigley. Working between Indiana and New York, the site now functions as home, studio, gallery, subject and ongoing archive.

Volume One, completed in 2026, is the first complete body of work produced through the practice.

The work continues.

Dager’s earlier professional work can be viewed at SethDager.com.