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 |