ARTIST

 

Michael Rogers

I hope to create non-linear narratives using objects and images much like a poet uses words. The implied meaning of objects and images change when combined and the visual reading of the work becomes more than the sum total of its parts, a new invention evoking multiple associations in the mind of the viewer. Making art is my way of trying to hold on to the ephemera of daily life. There is something profound in even the slightest and most subtle of human experiences. Glass, with its transparency and translucency as a material, is at once there and not there, making it the perfect poetic material to try to capture the fleeting.

Education & Teaching (Selected)

2002-2018Full Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, Rochester, New York 
1991-2002Associate Professor, Aichi University of Education, Kariya, Japan


Awards / Grants (Selected)

2009New York Foundation for the Arts Grant in Crafts
2007Lifetime Membership Award, Glass Art Society, USA 
Lillian Fairchild Award, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY


Exhibitions (Selected)

2018Novy Bor Glass Museum, Symposium Exhibition, Novy Bor, Czech Republic 
A New State of Matter:Contemporary Glass, Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho, USA
2017iglass2017, Levant Art Gallery, Shanghai, China 
Object of Light, Hangzhou International Contemporary Glass Art Exhibition, China Art Academy, Hangzhou, China 
Knowing, Seeing, Painting / Glass as Canvas, Galerie Medium, Bratislava, Slovakia 
Ningbo International Glass Art Conference Exhibition, Ningbo, China 
Danger & Beauty - Contemporary Art and Glass Works, ICI LABAS Galerie, 798 Art District, Beijing, China
2016Permeable Structures, The Byre Project, Bullseye Projects, Latheronwheel, Scotland 
Spillforth, Exhibit A, Corning, NY, USA 
Collision & Fission Exhibit of Contemporary Glass, Tianyuan International Glass Art Festival, Hebei, China
2015Whispered, Bullseye Gallery, Mamaroneck, NY, USA 
FLOW / GROW, 2015 Qingdao Contemporary Glass Art Exhibition, Qingdao, Shandong , China 
Fortune’s Nest, Exhibit A, Corning, NY
2014Bodytalk, Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Denmark, Collaboration with Inguna Audere 
Abandoned House, Mākslas Banka Gallery, Rīga, Latvia 
Moon and Nails, Café Spleen, Jāna Akuratera Museum, Rīga, Latvia
2013AMICE, Michael Rogers, Richard Meitner, Robert Wiley, New University of Lisbon Library, Lisbon, Portugal 
Stripping, WhiteBox Art Center, Beijing, China
2018Glass Art Society Conference, Murano, Italy, Harvey Littleton Lecture 
North Lands Creative Forum, Lybster, Scotland, Master of Ceremony
2017Tianyuan International Glass Art Festival, Hebei, China, Chairman of Exhibition Judging Committee 
Ningbo International Glass Art Conference, Ningbo, China, Exhibiting Artist


Collections (Selected)

Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York 
Glass Art and Study Center, Riga, Latvia 
L’viv National Museum, L’viv, Ukraine 
Museo del Vidrio, Monterrey, Mexico 
First Contemporary Glass Museum, Madrid, Spain 
Suntory Museum, Tokyo, Japan 
Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Denmark 
Ningbo Glass Museum, Ningbo, China 
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington, USA