Bio
If the photograph is a tool from which I understand my body through its depiction, it is therefore necessary, much as one would do undressed in front of a mirror, for me to caress and prod the photograph, to articulate its physical limits. While my body is flattened under the weight of capture, once it is material, the photograph is resuscitated. Accentuated through physical intervention, the work throbs as a body in space. The physical manifests as black steel screws, L-pins and plexiglass, the depicted as torn and cut paper, sanding, dust and fingerprints.
The practice observes where image material conjures the photographic and finds a momentary stillness. In thinking of images as material circling a drain, the practice is a reaching into the drain, pulling out the clump of hair and conditioner and detangling the slop. The sexy is latent in the sticky, gungy and awkward.
Robbie Rogers (b. 1996) is from Los Angeles and lives and works in New York City. He received his BA in Art from University of California, Los Angeles and is currently a candidate for his MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University, expected 2023.
Education
2023* | MFA, Visual Arts, Columbia University, New York, NY |
2019 | BA cum laude, Art, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA |
2014-2016 | Studio Art, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH |
Exhibitions
2022 | Otherwise, Half Gallery, New York, NY (Curated by Carlota Ortiz Monasterio, Ho Won Kim and Victoria Horrocks) |
2022 | Noumena, the Columbia MFA Summer Show, ChaShaMa, New York, NY (Curated by Sally Eaves Hughes and Emmanuel Olunkwa) |
2022 | Prepositional Sculpture, Skylight Gardens, New York, NY (Curated by Cal Siegel) |
2022 | Class of 2023 First Year MFA Exhibition, Wallach Art Gallery in the Lenfest Center for the Arts, Columbia University, New York, NY (Curated by Amy Sadao) |
2020 | Time Flies, dogdays.online, Virtual Exhibition (Curated by @__dogdays__) |
2020 | Companionway, Private Stairwell, Hollywood, CA (Curated by @stairsofanywhere) |
2018 | Undergraduate Scholarship Award Exhibition, New Wight Gallery at Broad Art Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA |
2018 | Are You Ready to Rock, New Wight Gallery at Broad Art Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. |
2018 | Undergraduate Juried Show, New Wight Gallery at Broad Art Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (Juror: Lanka Tattersall). |
2017 | Undergraduate Juried Show, New Wight Gallery at Broad Art Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (Juror: Sohrab Mohebbi). |
Awards, Grants, Fellowships
2022 | School of the Arts Photo Fellow, Columbia University, New York |
2018 | Martha Matthias Denny Scholarship, University of California, Los Angeles |
2014 | John Frederick Oberlin Scholar, Oberlin College |
Publications, Lectures
2022 | Robbie Rogers and Mona Welch, Press Release for House of Sit – a furniture show, Your Yard Truly, Hollywood, CA (Curated by Erica Vincenzi). |
2022 | Robbie Rogers, “Robbie Rogers, Basted Blizzard”, Rundgang, June 2022, https://rundgang.io/robbie-rogers-basted-blizzard/. |
2022 | Robbie Rogers, Basted Blizzard, 2022, cited by Naeem Mohaiemen in Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy (book launch for art critic Ben Davis’ book, Art in the After-Culture!), UnionDocs Center for Documentary Arts, Brooklyn, NY, April 14, 2022). |
2022 | Robbie Rogers, “For Entry,” Ashtray Journal 1, Städelschule, Frankfurt, Germany. Febuary 2022. 132-133. |
Professional and Teaching Experience
2022-2023 | School of the Arts Photo Fellow, Columbia University, New York, NY |
2022 | Teaching Assistant, Columbia University, New York, NY (Advanced Darkroom [Professor Dana Buhl], Fall 2022). |
2022 | Teaching Assistant, Columbia University, New York, NY (Photography I [Professor Taejoong Kim], Summer 2022). |
2022 | Teaching Assistant, Columbia University, New York, NY (Photography II [Professor Roni Aviv], Spring 2022). |
2021-Present | Photography Darkroom Lab Technician, Columbia University, New York, NY |
2020-Present | Social Media and Collection Management Associate, Cecilia Dan Fine Art, Remote |
2019-2021 | Project Manager, Jay Griffith Landscapes, Inc., Venice, CA |
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