INFO | ROBBIE ROGERS

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.

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

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).

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

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.

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