Michael Allen Rogers
Websites: https://www.michaelrogersart.site https://www.irmacollaborative.com
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Instagram: shihokusa, and irmacollaborative
Education (USA):
Western Illinois University, Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Art in Sculpture
University of Illinois Master of Fine Arts Sculpture
Positions:
Current
Professor Emeritus Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
2002 – 2018
Full Professor, School for American Crafts, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
1991 to 2002
Associate Professor, Aichi National University, Japan
2020 –
Board Member, IRMA Collaborative, non-profit organization, Riga, Latvia
SELECTED PERMANENT COLLECTIONS:
Notojima Glass Art Museum, Japan
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
Tacoma Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington
Qingdao Art Museum, Qingdao, China
Lviv National Museum, Lviv, Ukraine
Museo del Vidrio, Monterrey, Mexico
First Contemporary Glass Museum, Madrid, Spain
Suntory Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark
Osaka University of Art Museum, Japan
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2024
“GlassJazz”, cross disciplinary symposium, Panevėžys City Art Museum, Lithuania
“Amice+10”, New University of Lisbon Library, Lisbon, Portugal
2023
“Re-again”, Osaka University of Art Museum. Osaka, Japan
60th Anniversary of the Glass Art Department at the Art Academy of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
Ireland Glass Glass Biennale, Coach House Gallery, Dublin Castle, Dublin. Ireland
2022
Qingdao Art Museum, Condensing Light & Overflowing Colour, Qingdao, China
Habatat Gallery International Invitational, Detroit, Michigan
2021
The Voice of Glass Collaborative Exhibition, Latvian NationalArt Museum Riga Bourse, Riga, Latvia
Current Realities Exhibition, Levant Gallery, Shanghai, China
2020
Saying Glass, Alfred University’s Cohan Gallery, Alfred, NY, USA
2019
Celebrating a Decade at Exhibit A. Corning, NY, USA
Hidden Secrets, Gulbene Art Museum, Gulbene, 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, Lviv, Ukraine
2018
The Blue Jar Performance, collaboration with Inguna Audere at the North Lands Creative Nexus Forum in Lybster, Scotland
Impetus Project, The Latvian Art Academy combining sculpture, painting and performance, continued at Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania, Osaka Art University, Japan and Shanghai Institute of Visual Art, China
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
Galerie Medium, Bratislava, Slovakia
Ningbo International Glass Art Conference Exhibition, Ningbo, China
Danger & Beauty- Contemporary Art and Glass Works, Beijing, China
ICI LABAS Galerie, 798 Art District, Beijing, China
2016
Permeable Structures, The Byre Project, Bullseye Projects, Latheronwheel, Scotland.
Exhibit A, Spillforth, Corning, NY, USA
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, NY,USA
FLOW / GROW,
Qingdao Contemporary Glass Art Exhibition, Qingdao, China
Bullseye Gallery, Whispered, Mamaroneck, NY, USA
2014
“Bodytalk”, collaboration with Latvian artist Inguna Audere, Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Denmark
“Abandoned House”, Michael Rogers, Kazushi Nakada, Inguna Audere, Imants Kikulis, Mākslas Banka gallery, Rīga, Latvia.
“Moon and Nails”, project “Café Spleen” dedicated to 100-year anniversary of World war I, Janis 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, USA
Natural Philosophy, Bullseye Bay Area Gallery, Emeryville, California, USA
Bullseye at Friesen Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho, USA
Crucible Project, NCECA Conference, Houston, Texas, USA
2012
“The Magic Theater”, Go/c/art Gallery, Visby, Gotland, Swedwn
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
Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, 50 Years of Studio Glass: 1962-2012, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
This Fragile Skin, Bullseye Gallery, Emeryville, Canada
Career in Education:
1991 – 2002
Head of Glass Program at Aichi University of Education, a national university in Kariya-shi, Aichi, Japan from. I was responsible for teaching First, Second, Third, Fourth year students as well as graduate students. (During one of the eleven years in Japan I took my sabbatical and taught Graduate Students in the Glass Program in the School of Art at Ohio State University in the USA.
In Japan I reached the rank of Associate Professor. While in Japan I was Co-Chair of the International Glass Art Society’s conference in Seto, Japan responsible for the conference program development. The conference was attended by1600 people. I had established a private studio with a glass furnace in Seto along with the Aichi University studios to help facilitate all conference demonstrations.
2002 – 2018
I was head of the Glass Program at the School for American Crafts, Rochester Institute of Technology. At the beginning of my 17 years at RIT I served three years as Chair of the School for American Crafts. After those three years I achieved the rank of Full Professor with Tenure. During this time, I established my private studio in the countryside of upstate New York. I had served two three-year terms on the Glass Art Society Board of Directors https://www.glassart.org For one three-year term I served as President of the Glass Art Society. During one of my years at RIT I took my sabbatical and taught at the Osaka University of Art’s Glass Program in Osaka, Japan.
During my career I have lectured at many universities including:
Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island.
Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia.
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Massachusetts.
Ball State University, Indiana.
Alfred University, New York.
San Jose State University, California.
Shanghai Institute of Visual Art, China.
Toyama Institute of Glass Art, Japan.
VICARTE University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Latvian Art Academy, Latvia.
Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia.
Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania.
Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea.
Hong Kong Baptist University, China.
Workshops teaching Glassblowing, Casting, Fabrication and Aesthetics:
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning New York.
Bullseye Projects, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood Washington.
Haystack School of Arts and Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine.
Penland School of Craft, Bakersville, North Carolina.
North Lands Creative, Lybster, Scotland.
Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China.
Toyama Institute of Glass Art, Toyama, Japan.
2018 – now
IRMA Collaborative IMPETUS Course, CO-Taught with Professor, Doctor of Art Inguna Audere:
The IMPETUS Course encourages participants to get outside their comfort zone and engage in projects combining painting, sculpture, and performance:
Latvian Art Academy, Riga, Latvia.
Osaka University of Art, Osaka, Japan.
Shanghai Institute of Visual Art, Shanghai, China.
ALUO University, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia.