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