Chris Nissen

Education

1980 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1971 University of Virginia, B.A., Charlottesville, VA

One Person Exhibitions

1999 Bennett Galleries, Knoxville, TN
Pandion Gallery, Fischer's Island, NY
1998 Carspecken Scott Gallery, Wilmington, DE
1997 F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Carspecken Scott Gallery, Wilmington, DE
1996 F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Bennett Galleries, Knoxville, TN
1995 F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Carspecken Scott, Wilmington, DE
1994 F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Bennett Galleries, Knoxville, TN
1992 Bennett Galleries, Knoxville, TN
1988 Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1985 Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1983 Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1980 Suzanne Gross Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Selected Group Shows

1999 "New Artists, "J & W Gallery, New Hope, PA
"Boston Art Expo, "F.A.N. Gallery, Boston, MA
"Gallery Artists," Gleason Fine Arts, Boothbay Hbr., ME
"Gallery Artists, "Gleason Fine Arts, Camden, ME
"US Artists," Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
"Mystic Maritime Gallery Annual Invitational," Mystic, CT
1998 "National Landscape Invitational," Bennett Galleries, Knoxville, TN
"Summer Landscapes," Lizan & Tops Associates, East Hampton, PA
"Small Works, " & "3 Person Show,"   F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
"Gallery Artists," Gleason Fine Art, Boothbay Hbr., ME
"US Artists," Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1997 "US Artists," Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
"Smokey Mountain Benefit," Bennett Galleries Knoxville, TN
"Summer Paintings," Lizan & Tops Associates, East Hampton, PA
1996 "US Artists," Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
"Gallery Artists, " F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
"National Landscape Invitational," Bennett Galleries, Knoxville, TN
1995 "Second Long Island Landscape Exhibit,"Lizan & Tops Associates, East Hampton, NY
"Gallery Artists," Carspecken Scott Gallery, Wilmington, DE
"Gallery Artists," F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
"Selected Gallery Artists," Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, FL
"National Landscape Invitational," Bennett Galleries, Knoxville, TN
"Philadelphia Artists," American Artist Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1994 "US Artists '94," Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
"Artists Look at the Delaware River Watershed," American College, Bryn Mawr, PA
"Gallery Artists," Carspecken Scott Gallery, Wilmington, DE
1993 "National Landscape Invitational," Bennett Galleries, Knoxville, TN
1992 "Directors Choice," Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, FL
"91st Annual Fellowship Show," USX Towers, Pittsburgh, PA & Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
"Accent on Southern New Jersey," Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ
1991 "Get Real," North Miami Center of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
"Real Painting," Westby Art Gallery, Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ & Abington Art Center, Abington, PA
1991 "Temple University Department of Architecture Faculty Show," Philadelphia, PA
"Summer Works," Gimpel - Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York, NY
"Florida Landscape- the People," Miami Dade Library System, Miami, FL
1988 "Contemporary Philadelphia Artists - A Juried Exhibition," Philadelphia Museum of Art
"Marcel Duchamp's Mother's Potato Masher & Other Works of Art," Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA

Selected Collections: (Corporate)

Bell of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Blanc, Rome, Comisky & McCauley, Philadelphia, PA
Blue Cross of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Cigna Corporation, Philadelphia, PA
Citicorp, Newcastle, DE
Coopers & Lybrand, Philadelphia, PA
Core States Bank, Exton, PA
E. I. DuPont de Nemours, Wilmington, DE
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Fidelity Bank, Philadelphia, PA
First National Bank of Knoxville, Knoxville, TN
Glenmeade Trust Company, Princeton, NJ
Hangley, Connolly & Epstein, Philadelphia, PA
Kidder Peabody, New York, NY
McGraw-Hill Inc., New York, NY
Manufacturers Hanover Trust, New York, NY
Master Card International, New York, NY
Penn Mutual, Philadelphia, PA
The Pew Charitable Trust, Philadelphia, PA
Price Waterhouse, Philadelphia, PA
Provident Mutual, Philadelphia, PA
Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, Collegeville, PA
Rohm & Haas Corporation, Philadelphia, PA
Smith, Kline & Beecham Corporation, Philadelphia, PA
Sun Oil Corporation, St. Davids, PA
Trammel Crowe Corporation, Ft. Washington, PA
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Westfield Asset Management, Boston, MA
Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen, Philadelphia, PA

Over 250 Corporate collections worldwide

Collections: (Museum)

Cleveland Museum of Fine Arts, Cleveland, OH
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Woodmere Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Collections : (Private)

Over 300 private collections worldwide

Bibliography

1999 "Who's Who in American Art"Marquis Publishing
1997 New Providence, NJ "This Week", Courier Post, (interview)Camden, NJ Jean Gaasch, 9/11/97
1994 "The Arts, "The Philadelphia Inquirer, (review)Philadelphia, PA Victoria Donohoe, 4/13/94
1993 "Atlas of Florida," Institute of Science and Public Affairs, Tallahassee, FL, University Press of Florida, Florida State University, (CD ROM)
1992 "Atlas of Florida," University Press of Florida, Tallahassee, FL, Florida State University (publication)
1991 "The Arts," The Philadelphia Inquirer, (review),  Victoria Donohoe, 1/15/91
1990 "Contemporary Philadelphia Artists - A Juried Exhibition," Philadelphia Museum of Art, (catalogue) 4/90 Philadelphia, PA
"Features, "Burlington County Times, (interview)Burlington, NJ, Gail Boatman, 5/29/90
1989 "Evening Skies: Artists Interpretations of the Cosmos," Toms River, NJ (TV interview), Paul Balog (executive producer), Production of TV 21, CTN Network
"American Paintings in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, "Philadelphia, PA Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
in conjunction with the University Washington, (publication) Seattle and London, compiled by Nancy Fresella-Lee Press
1988 "Art," The Philadelphia Inquirer, (review) Philadelphia, PA, Victoria Donohoe, 12/16/88
"A Sense of Place, "Stockton State College (catalogue)Pomona, NJ, Liane Schneeman, 4/88
1986 "Nature Morte: The Museum Considers the Still Life, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, (catalogue), Michael Allison, 9/86, Loretto, PA
1985 "Art," The Philadelphia Inquirer, (review) Philadelphia, PA Victoria Donohoe, 5/1/85
1983 "Chris Nissen at Marian Locks, " Art Matters, (review), Philadelphia, Evelyn Kobler, 6/83
"Art - The City Seen in Luminescent Color," The Philadelphia Inquirer, Victoria Donohoe, (review), 5/83, Philadelphia, PA
"Moorestown Sketches - Chris Nissen, " (interview) The Moorestown Chronicle, Jean Gaasch, 5/12/83, Moorestown, NJ
1982 "Art - An Exhibit Enlivened By A Critic's Choices, "(review) The Philadelphia Inquirer, Victoria Donohoe, 3/28/82, Philadelphia, PA
1981 "Art - A Broad Based Exhibit," The Philadelphia Inquirer, (review), Victoria Donohoe, 4/26/81 Philadelphia, PA
1980 "Art," The Philadelphia Inquirer, (review) Victoria Donohoe, 7/25/80, Philadelphia, PA
"Moorestown Sketches - Painting Life in Color," The Moorestown Chronicle, Jean Gaasch, 2/14/80 (interview) Moorestown, NJ