Sándor Nagy (Buj, 28 May 1923 – Budapest, 11 August 2017) is a Hungarian sculptor, an outstanding figure in Hungarian sculpture. In his youth he worked in agriculture and then as a bricklayer, which also determined his later artistic career.

He began his art studies between 1947 and 1949 at the Free Art School in Nyíregyháza, where his teachers were Nándor Berky and Balázs Diószegi. Between 1949 and 1954 he continued his studies at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, his masters were András Beck, Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl, Pál Pátzay and Sándor Mikus.

He has been active as an exhibiting artist since 1952. In 1952 he married his fellow student, the sculptor Magda Gádor, with whom he was a member of the Százados út artists' colony in Budapest from 1960. He took part in several artists' camps, including the Hajdúság International Art Camp (1970-1976), Vyšné Ružbachy (1976) and Reinhardtdorf, Germany (1978).

Sándor Nagy worked with stone and wood. He made his sculptures from limestone, tuff, redstone, granite, marble and basalt. His work is characterized by multi-figure compositions with a closed structure, barely worked, built in the rhythm of large masses, characterful peasant heads and monumental female figures, even in miniature. In his art he depicted the motifs of the lowlands and used the natural structure and grain of the stone in his works.

Art historian Tibor Wehner wrote about his art: "The beautiful rawness, fragmentation, occasional lack of completion or sparse processing of Sandor Nagy's sculptures can have metaphorical meaning and significance: we can witness the painful birth of form from formlessness, the shimmer of beauty borne by roughness and crudeness.

He said about Sándor Nagy's creative method: "For him, the grain, color and specific structure of the stone and marble mark the path of engraving and carving and suggest that he should only form natural forms here and there."

He was a member of the Association of Hungarian Fine and Industrial Artists (from 1963), the Art Foundation of the Hungarian People's Republic, then the National Association of Hungarian Artists (from 1954) and the Hungarian Sculpture Society (from 1995).

His work is documented in numerous exhibitions and catalogues. He has had important solo exhibitions at the Ernst Museum (1967) and the Vigadó Gallery (1998), among others. Several monographs have been published on his works, including the volume by Tibor Wehner published by the Körmendi-Csák Gallery in 2002.

The art of Sándor Nagy is an important chapter of 20th century Hungarian sculpture. His creations can be found both in public spaces and museums, preserving the ancient traditions of stone sculpture and the expressiveness of modern art.