LaRissa Rogers is a multidisciplinary artist whose work investigates how personal and shared memory and history impact the perpetual evolution of cultural identity formation and placemaking. Research and material become the entry point of broader social-political interrogations, often asking the question, who and what survives?
Rogers was named to the Forbes’ 2024 “30 under 30” list in the Art and Style category. She has exhibited at Documenta 15 (Germany), Weserburg Museum (Germany), Lilley Museum (NV), the Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art (CA), the California Museum of Photography (CA), the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (VA), Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (CA), California State University, Fullerton, The Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MA), Torrence Art Musuem (CA), and the Fuller Craft Museum (MA).
She received the Visual Arts fellowship at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (2022) and the Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship (2023-2024). Rogers also held residencies at the Bemis Center of Contemporary Art (2022), the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2024), and MASS MoCA (2025). She is a recipient of the Hearthland Foundation Grant (2025), Anonymous Was a Woman (2025), National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) Grant (2026), and Mike Kelley Foundations for the Arts Grant (2026), among others. She has been featured in The New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar Japan, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, ARTnews, ARTSY, New American Paintings, Boston Art Review, and The Boston Globe.
Rogers received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Rogers is a tenure-track Assistant Professor and head of sculpture at the University of Virginia.
