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MICHAEL ALLEN ROGERS

 

CURRENT POSITION:

Professor Emeritus, School for American Crafts, Rochester Institute of Technology, Board member IRMA Collaborative, Riga, Latvia.

 

SELECTED PERMANENT COLLECTIONS:

Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York

Glass Art and Study Center, 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

Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

        2021

                    "Voice of Glass Collaborative", Latvian National Art Museum Rīgas Birža, Riga, Latvia.

                    "Current Realities", Levant Gallery, Shanghai, China.

          2020

                "Saying Glass", Alfred University’s Cohan Gallery, Alfred, NY.

2019

        "Hidden Secrets", Gulbene Art Museum in Latvia.

                      "Knowing, Seeing, Painting", Boda Glass Factory Museum in Sweden. 

                      "IGS Novy Bor Group Exhibition", Czech Republic.

                      "Lyrical Transformations", Levant Gallery, Shanghai, China. 

                       "Lviv National Museum Glass Symposium Exhibition", Lviv, Ukraine.

2018

“Impetus Project”, course at The Latvian Art Academy combining sculpture, painting and performance, continued with this course at Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania.

Lectured, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia.

 

2017

“Saaremaa Project”, Saaremaa, Estonia, performative site specific investigations with Mare Saare, Peeter Rudash, and Inguna Audere.

Levant Gallery, “IGlass 2017”, Shanghai, China.

“Object of Light”, Hangzhou International Contemporary Glass Art Exhibition, China Art Academy, Hangzhou, China

Exhibition curated by Ms. Sylva Petrová at Galerie Medium in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Ningbo International Glass Art Conference Exhibition, April 16-20, Ningbo, China

Danger & Beauty- Contemporary Art and Glass Works, May 2-July 30

ICI LABAS Galerie, 798 Art District, Beijing, China

2016

Permeable Structures, The Byre Project, Bullseye Projects, Latheronwheel, Scotland

Exhibit A, Spillforth, Corning, NY

“Collision & Fission Exhibit of Contemporary Glass”, Tianyuan International Glass Art Festival, Nanjing Province China.

2015

Grand Opening of Corning Museum’s New Contemporary Art and Design Wing, two works of mine on permanent display in this new space. Both works published in Collecting Contemporary Glass: Art and Design after 1990, Author, Tina Oldknow

FLOW / GROW, 2015 Qingdao Contemporary Glass Art Exhibition, Qingdao, Shandong Province, China

Exhibit A, Fortune’s Nest, Corning, NY

Bullseye Gallery, Whispered, Mamaroneck, NY, http://www.bullseyeglass.com/art/whispered.html

Abandoned House Project, Tallin, Estonia, Abandoned Sock Factory http://www.abandonedhouse.lv/

2014

Bodytalk, Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Denmark, collaboration with Latvian artist Inguna Audere

Abandoned House, Mākslas Banka gallery in Rīga, Latvia.

Moon and Nails, Café Spleen, Akuraters Museum, Riga, Latvia

2013

AMICE, Michael Rogers, Richard Mietner, Robert Wiley, New University of Lisbon Library, Lisbon, Portugal

World Craft Competition Kanazawa 2013, The Time Space Interval of Tea, Invited Artist, traveling exhibition. Period 1: 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, JAPAN, Period 2: Kanazawa Nakamura Memorial Museum. 

Graduated Glass, SOFA Chicago, Bullseye Gallery

Stripping, White Cube Museum, Beijing, China

Magic Theater, European House, Riga, Latvia

VANITAS, Bullseye Gallery, Portland, Oregon

Natural Philosophy, Bullseye Bay Area Gallery, Emeryville, California

Bullseye at Friesen Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho

Crucible Project, NCECA Conference, Houston, Texas

Collaboration with Furniture Professor Rich Tannen, Bevier Gallery, RIT

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 Foundation, Belgium 

Beyond Tradition: Contemporary Glass in a Museum Environment, North Lands Creative Glass/Caithness Horizons, Thurso, Caithness, Scotland.

Entamos, Exhibit A Contemporary Art, Corning, New York

Summer Glass Invitational, Exhibit A Contemporary Art, Corning, New York

A Visual Conversation, River House Arts, Perrysburg, Ohio

Penland School of Crafts 27thAnnual Benefit Auction

Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, 50 Years of Studio Glass: 1962-2012, Louisville

This Fragile Skin, Bullseye Gallery, Emeryville, CA

2011

The Fragile Skin, Schack Art Center, Everett, WA

Voice of Glass, Art Academy of Latvia, Riga, Latvia

Made in NY2011, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, New York

2010

Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA, Palimpsests and Ephemera

Art on the Edge, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Art Santa Fe, Bullseye Gallery, Santa Fe New Mexico

Messages and Written Narratives”, Chautauqua Institute, NY

“Silver Darlings” installation, abandoned church, Lybster, Scotland, North Lands

2009

SOFA Chicago, Bullseye Gallery

“Vetri/Alt, Glass Alternatives” Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia

“Flock” One Person exhibit at Bullseye Gallery in 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

“International Glass”, National Museum, L’viv, Ukraine

“Transformations” Society For Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA

“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

2006

“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

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

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, California

“Remnants”, Gallery Plannet, Nagoya, Japan

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