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artist, Michael Rogers
American, born 1955, Peoria, Illinois
Currently resides in Honeoye Falls, New York

Michael Rogers is currently a Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology’s School For American Crafts in New York where he has taught for the past 11 years in the Glass Program. Previously he spent 11 years in Japan where he was head of Aichi University’s Glass Program. 

His work is in several international permanent collections, including the Suntory Museum in Japan and the Corning Museum of Glass in the United States. Recent exhibitions include “Art on The Edge” at the New Mexico Museum of Art, Art Santa Fe with Bullseye Gallery, “Messages and Written Narratives” at the Chautauqua Institute, NY, “Palimpsests and Ephemera” at the Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA, and “Voice of Glass” at the Academy of Art in Riga, Latvia.

Michael has lectured at North Lands in Scotland, the New University of Lisbon in Portugal, Aalto University of Art and Design in Helsinki, Finland and Toyama Institute of Glass Art in Japan. When not teaching or traveling Michael lives and maintains his private studio in the countryside outside Honeoye Falls, NY.




EDUCATION

1981  M.F.A. Sculpture/Glass, University of Illinois, Champaign
1978  M.A. Sculpture, Western Illinois University, Macomb
1977  B.A. Art, Western Illinois University, Macomb


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2002 - Present, Full Professor, School For American Crafts, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
2002 - 2005 Chairman, School For American Crafts, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
2004 - President, Glass Art Society
1991 - 2002 Associate Professor, Head of Glass Program, Aichi University of Education, Kariya, Japan


SELECTED PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
Glass Art and Study Centre, Riga, Latvia
L'viv National Museum, L'viv, Ukraine
Grand Crystal Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Museo del Vidrio, Monterrey, Mexico
First Contemporary Glass Museum, Madrid, Spain
Suntory Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Denmark


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2015
Market Art + Design, presented by Exhibit A, Bridgehampton NY

2014
Bodytalk, Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Denmark (collaboration with Latvian artist Inguna Audere)

2013
AMICE, Michael Rogers, Richard Meitner, Robert Wiley, New University of Lisbon Library, Lisbon, Portugal
World Craft Competition Kanazawa 2013, The Time Space Interval of Tea, (invited artist / traveling exhibition)
      21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
      Kanazawa Memoial Museum, Kanazawa, Japan
Forward, Exhibit A, Corning NY
Graduated Glass, SOFA Chicago, Bullseye Gallery
Stripping, White Cube Musuem, Bejing, China
Magic Theater, European House, Riga, Latvia
VANITAS, Bullseye Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Natural Philosophy, Bullseye Bay Area Gallery, Emeryville, CA
Bullseye at Friesen Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho
Crucible Project, NCECA Conference, Houston TX

2012
The Magic Theater, Go/c/art Gallery, Visby, Gotland
Spillforth, Granoff Center, Cohan Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
International Glass Prize, The Object 2012, Ch. Van Der Seijs Goundation, Belgium
Beyond Tradition: Contemporary Glass in a Museum Environment, North Lands Creative Glass/ Caithness Horizons, 
     Thurso, Caithness, Scotland
Entomos, Exhibit A, Corning, New York
Summer Glass Invitational, Exhibit A, Corning, New York
A Visual Conversation, River House Arts, Perrysburg, Ohio
International Glass Prize 2012 – The Object, Het Glazen Huis, Lommel, Belgium
50 Years of Studio Glass, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville
This Fragile Skin, Bullseye Gallery, Emeryville, CA

2011
Voice of Glass, Art Academy of Latvia, Riga
This Fragile Skin, Schack Art Center, Everett, Washington
Made in NY 2011, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, New York

2010
Palimpsests and Ephemera, The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, Massachusetts
Art on the Edge, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
Art Santa Fe, Bullseye Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Messages and Written Narratives, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, New York
Silver Darlings, installation, abandoned church, Lybster, Scotland, North Lands

2009
SOFA Chicago, Bullseye Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Vetri/Alt: Glass Alternatives, Old Dominion University, Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Galleries, 
     Norfolk, Virginia
Reunion, Toyoda City Glass and Metal Center, Japan
Flock, Bullseye Gallery, Portland, Oregon 

2008
Michael Rogers and Jack Wax, Rochester Contemporary, Rochester, New York
Clear Your Mind: Contemporary Glass Invitational, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa

2007
Alumni Exhibition, University of Illinois, Cinema Gallery, Urbana, Illinois
International Glass, National Museum, L’viv, Ukraine
Recollections, Pittsburgh Glass Center, two-person exhibit with Richard Hirsch
Transformations, Society For Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA, (received honorable mention award)
Vessels-Collection, Koganezaki Glass Museum, Ugusu Nishiizu-cho, Japan
Glass Curiosities, Corning Museum, Corning, New York
Patination, Michael Rogers and Richard Hirsch, Clark Gallery, Lincoln. MA
Celebrating Connections: Contemporary Glass by Mid Atlantic Artists, Museum of American Glass, Wheaton, New Jersey
Gardenscape, Rochester Dome, Rochester, New York. Exhibited two corten steel and cast glass sculptures.

2006
Teapots!, Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
The Glass Voice, Museum of Decorative Art and Design, Riga, Latvia
Memorial Art Gallery Biennial, Rochester, New York
Compelled by Content II, Fraser Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland
The Glass Continuum, Gallery R, Rochester,NY

2005
The Edges Of Grace: Provocative, Uncommon Craft, The Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA.
Glass Sculpture, Hastings College, Hastings, Nebraska 

2004
 Joyce In Art: Visual Art Inspired by James Joyce, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
Grimm’s Fairy Tales Reinvented, The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA
Interaction, exhibition at the Museum of Decorative Applied Art, Riga, Latvia

2003
In-Visibility, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
SOFA Chicago, Gallerie Catarina Tognon, Italy
Glass Art/Sculpture, Glass Art and Study Center, Riga, Latvia
The Other Side Of The Looking Glass, The Glass Body And It’s Metaphors, Turtle Bay Exploration Park, Redding, CA
       Susanne Frantz, curator

2002
Remnants, Gallery Plannet, Nagoya, Japan

2001
Content, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
Glass America 2001, Heller Gallery, New York, NY
National Museum, L’viv, Ukraine

2000
Message In A Bottle, Installation, Grand Crystal Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Invitational Exhibition, Heller Gallery, New York, NY

1999
Individuality and Anonymity, Gallery Isogaya in Tokyo, (organized by Mr. Hida, curator, Tokyo Museum of Modern Art, Japan)
Glass Installations, Gallery NAF (Nagoya Art Forum) in Nagoya, Japan

1998
Glass Media, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art Gallery



AWARDS / HONORS

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