EDUCATION
2024 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
2023 MFA in New Genres, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA (Advisor, Vishal Jugdeo)
2019 BFA in Painting and Printmaking, Magna Cum Laude, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Richmond, VA
2019 BIS International Fashion Buying, Magna Cum Laude, VCU, Richmond, VA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 I’ll Fly Away, Super Dakota, Liste, Basel, Switzerland
2023 Monstrous Beauty (a placeholder for someone without a place), New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 We've Always Been Here, Like Hydrogen, Like Oxygen, California State Fullerton, Santa Ana, CA (curated by John Spiak)
2021 On Belonging: The Space In Between, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2021 Somewhere on the Edge: Temporal Entanglements, Welcome Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS
2025 Lilley Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada (curated by Stephanie L Gibson) (forthcoming)
2025 Lovers, Piece Projects, Richmond, VA (curated by Laura Martin Mills and Elizabeth Dolan Wright)
2025 Waste Not, Want Not: Craft in the Anthropocene, Fuller Craft Museum, Brocktown, MA (curated by Caroline Kipp)
2024 The Way We Are, Weisenberg Museum, Bremen, Germany
2024 Oblivion Collection, Pal project, Paris, France (curated by Andy Rankin)
2024 Of Doubts and Dreams, Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto, Canada (curated by Simon Cole)
2024 Unfortunately, It Was Paradise, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Gallery 51, North Adams, MA (curated by Eunice Uhm)
2023 The New Contemporaries Vol III, Residency Art, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Rick Garzon)
2023 Displacement and Belonging, Unveil Gallery, Irvine, CA (curated by Lorraine Han & Alma Ruiz)
2023 12 - Hour Day, 12 - Hour Night, Helen J Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Cameron Masters)
2023 Einstein on the Beach, Super Dakota, Brussels, Belgium, (curated by Damîen Bertelle-Rogier & Shesna Lyra)
2023 Ballast: Recent Aesthetic Practices in Response to Anti-Blackness, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, California (curated by Chris E. Brady)
2023 Of Seeds, Soil, and Stars, LACE, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Joy A. Anderson & Robi Garcia)
2023 uncontained: categories always leak, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA (curated by Meghan Smith, Julianna Heller & Jaime Austin)
2023 My Condolences, M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Territorial, The Land, and Us, Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN (curated by Haley Clouser)
2022 What The Body Holds, Afrikana Film Festival, Richmond, VA (curated by Enjoli Moon)
2022 Together Together (투게더투게더), Frieze Seoul, Seoul, Korea (curated by GYOPO & WESS)
2022 Subversive Media: Materiality and Power, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA (curated by Haley Clouser)
2022 Conjunctions and Disjunctions / Conjunctions y Disyunciones, Black Ground, Cali, Colombia (curated by Noah Simblist and Beatriz Balanta)
2020 InLight: Security and Accountability, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA (curated by Emily Smith and Park Myers)
2020 New Waves, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA (curated by Susan Thompson)
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2024 an elegy for those who have passed through us, Collaborative performance with Jude Rogers, Zalika Azim, and Denise Joyce, Rose Kennedy Greenway, Boston, MA
2023 Attending to the wound: a wake, a waiting, a witnessing, Collaborative performance with Jackie Amezquita, LACE, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Melodies of Shared Breath/Melodías que Comparten el Aliento, Collaborative performance with Jackie Amézquita, Front Arte Cultura, San Ysidro, CA
2021 My Body is the Architecture of My Every Ancestor, The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, Charlottesville, VA
2020 Ode to Soil, Pen Park and Farmington Country Club, Charlottesville, VA
SELECTED PUBLIC SCULPTURES
2024 - 2025 Going to Ground, The Rose Kennedy Greenway, Boston, MA (curated by Audrey Lopez)
2023 - 2024 Operations of Care, Visible Records, Confounded with Luis Vasquez La Roche, Richmond, VA (Funded by Reclaiming the Monument and The Mellon Foundation)
BIENNIALS / FAIRS
2024 I’ll Fly Away, Super Dakota, Liste, Basel, Switzerland
2023 Super Dakota, NADA Miami, Miami, Florida
2022 I Am My Own Other, Frieze Seoul, Seoul, Korea (curated by GYOPO x WESS)
2022 Let That Be Your Cautionary Tale, Documenta 15, Kassel, Germany (curated by Alice Yard)
SELECTED RESIDENCIES
2025 Mass Moca, North Adams, MA
2024 Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting, Skowhegan, ME
2023-2024 Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
2021-2022 Black Spatial Relics, Brown University, Providence, RI
2022 BEMIS Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
2019 SOMA, Mexico City, Mexico
SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS
2023-2024 Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship, Provincetown, MA
2023-2024 Mid-South Sculpture Alliance Fellowship, Chattanooga, TN
2021-2022 Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA
2021 New City Arts Fellow, Welcome Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
SELECTED GRANTS/ AWARDS
2024 Un-monument | Re-monument | De-Monument: Transforming Boston, Boston’s Mayor's Office of Arts and Cultures, Boston, MA
2024 Forbes 30 Under 30 in Art and Style, Forbes, New York City, NY
2023 Recontextualizing Richmond, Reclaiming the Monument Funded by the Mellon Foundation, Richmond, VA
2021-2022 Creative Futures Grant, Black Artists + Designers Guild
SELECTED PRESS
Tazawa, Minami. Harper's Bazaar Japan Art. Vol 2. Harper's Bazaar, Oct 18, 2024. Print.
Solomon, Tessa. The City of Boston Announces Thirty New Public Art Initiatives Funded by a $3 Million Grant from the Mellon Foundation, ARTnews. July 18, 2024.
Hill, Brandon. Sculpture recognizes first Black Homeowner. The Boston Guardian. 19 July 2024.
Jose Gutierrez Chavez, Maria. Dig up your dirt — for a new sculpture coming to the Greenway. Boston Globe. 6 June 2024.
Boston Art Review, Issue 12: Some Assembly Required. 18 May 2024.
Sullivan, Paul. Astonishing Propositions of Momentary Liberation: LaRissa Rogers reveals the threats that lurk in what looks like beauty. The Provincetown Independent. 12 March 2024.
Davis-Marks, Isis. 29 Emerging Black Artist to Discover this Black History Month Part II. Artsy. 15 February 2024.
Houton, Jaqueline. “A Grab Bag of Goodies from the Edge of the World: The Fine Arts Work Center Fellows at PAAM.” The Boston Art Review. 12 February 2023.
Rabb, Maxwell. 15 leading curators predict the defining art trends of 2024. Artsy. 12 January 2024.
Pogrebin, Robin. “How Galleries Off the Beaten Path Are Diversifying L.A.’s Art Scene,” New York Times. 8 December 2023.
Melvin, Simone. “Forbes 30 under 30 Art and Style,” Forbes. 28 November 2023.
Mosqueda, Sarah. “Unveil Gallery launches in Irvine with inaugural exhibition, ‘Displacement and Belonging,’” Los Angeles Times. 27 September 2023.
New American Paintings, No. 165, MFA Annual Issue, 2023. Print.
Mosqueda, Sarah. “Visual artist squeezes meaning from double-channel video at Grand Central Art Center,” Los Angeles Times. 31 August 2022.
FriezeMagazine Online. “LaRissa Rogers: We’ve Always Been Here, Like Hydrogen, Like Oxygen” FriezeMagazine. 31 August 2022.
Jenkins, Mark. “In the galleries: A focus on the intersection of art and movement,” Washington Post. 26 February 2021.
Full C.V. available upon request.