Nicholas Blair grew up in New York City. In 1977 he dropped out of high school and moved to San Francisco to help create an arts commune and the Ancient Currents Gallery. He apprenticed with the photographer Henry “Hank” Wessel and received his MFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1981. He has received photography and filmmaking fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Jerome Foundation. Blair’s photographs are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The International Center for Photography, The Brooklyn Museum, and the Bibliothéque Nationale in Paris, France.
