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Christian Wurst, associate curator for exhibitions at Sheldon Museum of Art, leads a tour of the exhibition "Americans Abroad." Learn about the ways American artists Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley, Lisa Sanditz, and others have sought inspiration and artistic advancement through their international travels. 

About Christian Wurst

Christian Wurst is the associate curator for exhibitions at Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Recent exhibitions include "Uncanny Encounters: The Disturbing, Surreal and Supernatural in American Art" (2024), "Unprecedented: Art in Times of Crisis" (2024), "Sheldon Treasures: Edward Hopper and His Contemporaries" (2023), and "Photographic Abstraction" (2022). Prior to Sheldon, he was the curatorial assistant to the deputy director for curatorial affairs at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin. At the Blanton, he curated "Without Limits: Helen Frankenthaler, Abstraction, and the Language of Print" (2021) and "Arte Sin Fronteras: Prints from the Self Help Graphics Studio" (2019), "Jeremy Blake: Winchester Trilogy" (2019) and "Line Form Color" (2017). His essay "Happy Hour: The Pairings of Jasper Johns and Felix Gonzalez-Torres" was published in the anthology "Two for One: Doppelgngers, Alter Egos, Reflected Images, and Other Duples in Western Art, 1800-2000" (McFarland Books, 2020). He earned his master's degree in modern & contemporary American art at the University of Florida, Gainesville.