About

Christopher Nitsche’s career includes over 70 solo and group exhibitions. His work ranges from steel and found object sculptures to works on paper and site-specific installations. His extensive exhibition record includes numerous gallery and museum shows throughout the United States.

Recent Exhibitions:
• Human Cargo, Savannah and the Oceanic Slave Trade, Outdoor Installation, Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum, Savannah, GA (2021-2022) • Liminal Ship II, Installation, Drawings, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL (2018-2021)
• Christopher Nitsche: Passage/Memory/Transition, Installation, Sculptures, Drawings, Alexander Brest Museum and Gallery, Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, FL (2018)
• Making Waves: A Collective Perspective on the Pollution of our Waterways, Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum, Savannah, GA (2018)
• Gestalt, Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum in Savannah, GA (2016-2017)
• Underway, 621 Gallery in Tallahassee, FL (2016)
• Red Indigo, Indigo Sky Community Gallery in Savannah, GA (2015)
• Memory Ship, Spartanburg Art Museum in Spartanburg, SC (2014-2015)
• And The Ships Sail On: Christopher Nitsche, A Mid-Career Survey, Waterworks Visual Arts Center Museum in Salisbury, NC (2013)
• Sculptures have been juried in exhibitions at the Alexandria Museum of Art in Alexandria, LA (2015), the Huntsville Museum of Art in Huntsville, AL (2014), the Jay Etkin Gallery in Santa Fe, NM (2013), the Sylvia White Gallery in Ventura, CA (2012), the Target Gallery in Alexandra, VA (2012), and the Foosaner Art Museum in Melbourne, FL (2010).

Grants, Awards
• Recipient of two fellowships for artistic merit; from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the Colorado Council on the Arts. In addition, Nitsche was a recipient of a promotional grant from the Colorado Council on the Arts, along with numerous exhibition stipends, academic grants and stipends for professional development.