| CHRISTOPHER E.
NITSCHE
E-mail: chrismel@bellsouth.net
EDUCATION
MFA, University
of New Mexico, Studio Arts, Sculpture
MA, Northern Illinois University, Studio Arts, Sculpture
BFA, Northern Illinois University, Painting and Drawing
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005
VINDAUGA: Two-Part
Installation, Maxwell Library,
Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA
2002
RELEASE: An Outdoor
Installation Performance,
Anniversary of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks
Keene
State College, Keene, NH
2001
31 DEGREES NORTH
OF EAST, Two-Part Outdoor Installation,
Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX
Dance Performance
at Installation Site: The Loudest Silence
REFLECTIVE, Installation, University of Wyoming
Museum of Art,Laramie, WY
Curator: Susan Moldenhauer, Museum Director and Chief Curator
CONFLUENCE: Sculpture, Installation, Drawings
Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, CO,
Curator: Jeanne Shoaff, Museum Director
2000
CHRISTOPHER NITSCHE:
SCULPTURE, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley,
CO
Curator: Professor Cece Wire, University of Northern
Colorado
1999
WOTAN
(HEREAFTER), Installation and Drawings, Carol Keller
Gallery, Denver,
CO
Curator: Carol Keller, Gallery Director
WOTAN (RISE), Outdoor Installation, Arapahoe Community College, Littleton,
CO
NAVIGARE, Installation,
Sculptures, Drawings, Paintings, Fort Collins Museum
of Contemporary Art, Curator: Jerry Gilmore, Museum
Director
1998
SHIPS SHADOW, Installation,
Philip J. Steele Gallery,
Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Denver, CO,Curator:
Lisa Spivak, Gallery Director
1997
SHIPS WAKE, A Multi-Media
Installation, Edge Art Gallery, Denver
1996
SUBMERGE, A Multi-Media/Sound
Installation, Core New Art Space, Denver
SHIP
WITHIN, A Multi-Media/Sound Installation, Planet Off
Gallery, Denver
1995
DESERT SHIPS, Indigenous
Material Outdoor Installations
Cibola National Forest,
Grants, NM
RECENT WORKS, Drawings
and Paintings
New Mexico State University - Grants,
Grants, NM
1994
INSTRUCTIONS TO
MEMORY,
Paintings, Crashing Thunder Gallery, Gallup,
NM
1993
BREATHING ROOM,
A Sound/Light Corridor Installation
8th Street Gallery,
Albuquerque, NM
1991
JOURNEY OF THE
SHIP, A Multi-Media/Sound Installation,
Manos de Fierro Art Space, Milan, NM
1990
SILENCE SOUND,
A Light Deprivation/Sound Installation
Rawspace, Albuquerque,
NM
1988
FOUR WIRES; MAYLINE
CABLE INSTALLATION,
Corporate Office of Envirodyne Engineers, Chicago, IL
1987
FOUR SITE INSTALLATIONS
IN RESPONSE,
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb,
IL
SELECTED
GROUP & JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2009
Re: materialization,
Deborah Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Jurors: Shana
Nys Dambrot, Art Critic & Curator, Deborah
Martin, Gallery Director
Ever Present and in Motion, ACA Gallery, Atlanta,
GA, Pei
Ling Chan Gallery, Savannah, GA, Curator: Melissa Messina,
Exhibition Department, Savannah College of Art and Design
2008
A Decade of New
Hampshire Visual Artist Fellows,
Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, NH
LOST: Art of the Found Object, Gallery RFD,
Swainsboro, GA Juror:
Emily Holt
Nagasaki 8.9 Peace Exhibition, Nagasaki Peace Museum,
Nagasaki, Japan, Coordinator: Matsuo Hideo
54th Hiroshima Peace
Art Exhibition, Hiroshima Peace Museum
Hiroshima, Japan,
Coordinator: Shirai Shirou
2007
TOYS, an Artistic
Look at Playthings,
Arizona Museum for Youth,Mesa,
AZ, Curator: Jeffory Morris
About Sculpture, Pinnacle Gallery,
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah,
GA
2006
Major Works, Gallery
1600, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta,
GA
Biennial Faculty Exhibition,
Thorne-Sagendorph
Art Gallery, Keene
State College, NH
2005
LA LUZ, A Multi-Media
Outdoor Installation, Approaching
the Infinite: SculptFest05,
Carving Studio and Sculpture
Center, West Rutland, VT,
Curator: Mark Wasko, Art Collector, Burlington, VT
Peace Art Show,
Art in the Birthplace of the Atomic Bomb,
AC2 Gallery,
Albuquerque, NM
Curator: Thomas S. Powell, Artist
2004
SELECTIONs, Santa
Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
LINER, A Multi-Media
Installation, Sculptures, Biennial Art Faculty Exhibition,
Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene State College,
Keene, NH
2002
Group Show, Sandy
Carson Gallery, Denver, CO,
Curator:
Mark Masuoka, Gallery Director
2001
Invitational Group
Show,
Lewallen Contemporary,
Santa Fe, NM
Curator: Arlene Lewallen, Gallery Director
Working Drawings, Philip J. Steele Gallery,
Rocky Mountain College
of Art and Design, Denver
Curator: Lisa Spivak, Gallery Director
2000
WOTAN (WITHERING),
A Multi-Media Installation, Sculptures,
New Works with Jerry Gilmore, Emmanuel Gallery, Denver
Curator: Mark Masuoka, Gallery Director
Colorado/Wyoming
Biennial 2000
Fort
Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, CO;
Juror: Professor Patrice Sullivan, Colorado State University
Inflections of Style:
Small Sculptures Invitational Exhibition,
The Invisible
Museum, Denver
Curator:
Marina Graves, Editor, Eye Level Art Magazine
1999
Intro II, Carol
Keller Gallery, Denver, CO,
Curator:
Carol Keller, Gallery Director
1998
Intro I, Carol
Keller Gallery, Curator: Carol Keller, Gallery Director
FLOW TO SHATTER,
Gather/Shatter:
Two Installation Artists with Lindy
Lyman, Colorado Gallery of the Arts
Arapahoe
Community College, Littleton, CO
1997
University of Colorado
Faculty Group Exhibition
Emmanuel Gallery, Denver
1996
METAPHYESTHAI,
A Multi-Media/Sound Installation, Insight
on Site: Six Installation Artists,
Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO
Curator: Kathy Andrews, Gallery and Museum Director
1995
Arte Grande: Invitational
Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition
State
Fair Grounds, Albuquerque, NM
1994
Wrap It Up, Harwood
Art Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
University of New Mexico Faculty Group Exhibition
Fellin
Library Art Gallery, Gallup, NM
Group Show, New Mexico State University-Grants, Grants, NM
1993
Orbit, AUA/Rawspace,
Albuquerque, NM
1992
35th Annual Chautauqua
National Exhibition of American Art, Chautauqua,
NY
Invitational Group
Exhibition, Dartmouth Street Gallery, Albuquerque,
NM
1991
2nd Annual Art
of Albuquerque, Albuquerque Convention Center, NM
Visions of Excellence V, State Fair Fine Arts Gallery, Albuquerque,
NM
1990
It Happened on
Planet Earth Invitational Sculpture Show,
Carol
Sayre Gallery, Thoreau, NM
1989
Sculpture in Public
Spaces, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
1988
Group Exhibition,
ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
1987
Emerging Artists
Invitational Exhibition,
Northern Illinois University Gallery in Chicago, Chicago,
IL
1986
Carnegie Art Museum,
Oxnard, CA
Long Beach Art Gallery, Long Beach, CA
1985
LACE Art Space,
Los Angeles, CA
1984
Carnegie Art Museum,
Oxnard, CA
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS
2005
Individual Artist
Fellowship for Artistic Merit,
New Hampshire State Council on the Arts
2004
Alumni Association
Grant, Keene State College Alumni Foundation
2003
Faculty Professional
Development Grant, Keene
State College Foundation
2001
Fellowship Award
for Artistic Merit in Three-Dimensional Art
Colorado Council on the Arts
Promotional Grant, Colorado Council on the Arts
Faculty Development Grant, Arapahoe Community College Foundation
2000
Second Jurors Prize
Colorado/Wyoming Biennial 2000,
Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art
Faculty Development Grant, Arapahoe Community College Foundation
1999
Faculty Development
Grant, Arapahoe Community College Foundation
1998
Faculty Development
Grant, Arapahoe Community College Foundation
1990
Graduate Fellowship,
University of New Mexico|
Department
of Art and Art History
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2006-Present
Professor of Foundation
Studies,
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah,
GA
2002-2006
Assistant Professor
of Sculpture, Keene State College, Keene, NH
1997-2002
Instructor, Sculpture
and Art History,
Arapahoe Community College, Littleton,
CO
1996-1997
Adjunct Instructor,
Sculpture, University of Colorado at Denver, Denver
1994-1995
Adjunct Instructor,
University of New Mexico Gallup Campus, Gallup,
NM
PUBLICATIONS
Catalog, Ever Present and in Motion,
Savannah College of Art and Design,
2009
Catalog, Approaching the Infinite: SculptFest ‘05,
The Carving Studio and Sculpture Center, Spring 2006
Review, Rutland Herald, September 16, 2005
Profile, New Hampshire Arts News, Autumn 2005
Review, Keene Sentinel, February 12, 2004
Profile, The Lasso, Texas Woman’s University, November 14, 2001
Profile, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, November 3, 2001
Profile, Denton Record-Chronicle, November 3, 2001
Review, Eye Level Art Magazine, November, 2001
Profile, Littleton Independent, April 26, 2001
Art Beat Review, Westword, July 13, 2000
Profile, Denver Rocky Mountain News, June 14, 2000
Art Beat Review, Westword, September 23, 1999
Profile, Fort Collins Coloradoan, December 31, 1998
Profile, Littleton Independent, October 29, 1998
Review, Denver Rocky Mountain News, February 20, 1998
Review, Westword, February 18, 1998
Recognition, The Best of Denver 1997, Best Installation Show,
Westword, June 26, 1997
Review, Denver Rocky Mountain News, June 13, 1997
Recognition, 1996 Top Ten Art Events,
Denver Rocky Mountain News, December 29, 1996
Recognition, 1996 Top Ten Art Events, Denver Post, December 29, 1996
Review, Westword, July 25, 1996
Review, Denver Rocky Mountain News, June 14, 1996
Review, Denver Post, June 13, 1996
Review, Denver Rocky Mountain News, April 19, 1996
Catalog, Arte Grande Invitational Sculpture Exhibition, May 5, 1995
Review, Gallup Independent, September 15, 1994
Author, Guest Commentary, Albuquerque Journal, May 15, 1994
Interview, Albuquerque Journal, January 3, 1993
Profile, New Mexico Now, KUNM Radio, Broadcast September 30, 1992
Interview, Albuquerque Journal, May 10, 1992
Interview, New Mexico Now, KUNM Radio, Broadcast May 4, 1992
Interview, The Great Escape, KUNM Radio, Broadcast March 4, 1992
Profile, Albuquerque Journal, August 9, 1991
Review, Albuquerque Journal, December 16, 1990
Review, Gallup Independent, October 6, 1990
COLLECTIONS
Savannah College of Art and
Design, Atlanta Campus, GA
William and Pam Campbell, Ft. Worth, TX
Jeff Whipple and Chalet Comellas, Tallahassee,
FL
Chris Norman and Jacquelyn Cori-Norman, Savannah,
GA
Jo Shatzman and Charles Orth, Keene, NH
Rosemarie Bernardi, Keene, NH
Yuan Pan, Keene, NH
Town of Swanzey City Hall, NH
Northeast Recycling Council, Brattleboro, VT
Marty Fries, Laurel, MD
Susan Cannon, Denver, CO
Keith Vandenberg, Denver, CO
Fort Collins Museum of
Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, CO
Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Denver,
CO
Scott Diddams and Naomi Heiser, Louisville,
CO
Kathy Andrews and Gary Emrich, Denver, CO
Frank Johanson, Denver, CO
Suzanne Deats, Fort Worth, TX
Amber Tripodi, Little Rock, AR
Tom Powell, Albuquerque, NM
Tom and Elyse Nodurft, Plato Center, IL
Stewart Babinder, Chicago, IL
Karen Lewis and Michael Rogers, Tarzana, CA
Gordon and Juliet Johnson, Pasadena, CA
Tobin and Linda Tellers, Pasadena, CA
Patricia Rubin, San Jose, CA
Roberto Garcia, Arcadia, CA
Jim Sayre, Thoreau, NM
Robert Gallegos, Milan, NM
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