Christina Nafziger is a Chicago-based arts writer and editor who is interested in artists with research-based practices, art & labor, the impact archiving has on memory and identity, and the ways in which location affects identity & art making, particularly in the Midwest.
With a background working in art galleries, publications, and museums, Christina earned an M.A. in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths University of London and a B.A. in Art History with a focus on contemporary photography & performance at Herron School of Art & Design
She is Associate Editor at Create! Magazine, an in-print and online contemporary art magazine and community.
With a decade of experience as an arts writer and critic, Christina’s writing has been published by the Sixty Inches From Center, Create! Magazine, the Chicago-Sun Times, Chicago Reader, Newcity, Ruckus Journal, Feature Shoot, BRIDGE Journal, and THE SEEN: Chicago's International Online Journal for Contemporary & Modern Art. She has also contributed essays to Lumpen Magazine's 'Artists Run Chicago' issue, and Exhibitions on the Cusp (2018), published by the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation.
In April 2023, Christina co-founded Middle Child Gallery with her best friend & business partner Abel Sommers Braughton. Located in Chicago, the gallery supports & showcases Midwest-based artists.
She is Co-Managing Editor at Sixty Inches From Center, a nonprofit arts publication and archiving initiative whose work promotes and supports the arts and cultural work being done in communities that have historically been left out of mainstream narratives.
Along with being Co-Managing Editor, she also facilitates editorial partnerships & works on special projects like the Chicago Archives + Artists Project, which pairs Chicago artists with archives in the city to create new work based on their research within the archives. The most recent iteration of the project has culminated in the book Case Studies in Collaboration.