CHRISTINE ROGERS

EDUCATION

2008  M.F.A. School of the Museum of Fine Arts / Tufts University, Boston, MA (Interdisciplinary Studio Art, emphasis photography)

2004  B.A. Oberlin College (Anthropology and English) 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2015- present  Assistant Professor of Photography and Photography Area Coordinator, Belmont University, Nashville, TN; teach a full load of courses as well as direct thesis projects. Coordinate all aspects of the Photography Area, maintain labs (digital and darkroom), supervise adjuncts. 

2013- 2015  Assistant Professor of Photography, Watkins College of Art, Design and Film, Assistant Professor of Photography, Nashville, TN; teach a full load of courses as well as direct thesis projects and other duties of a full-time professor. 

2011-2012  Visiting Scholar,Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA; research-based position, focusing on photographic studio research/studio art practice development. 

2009-2011  Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, Photography (Full Time), Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA; teach a full load of courses as well as advise thesis projects, committee work, other duties of a full-time professor. 

AWARDS AND GRANTS

2018  J. William Fulbright Senior Scholar Award (Fulbright – Nehru Scholar award to India)

2018  Learning Lab Award for Residency with Senior Ride Nashville,Metro Arts Nashville

2013  The Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers (nominated) 

2012  J. William Fulbright Senior Scholar Award (Fulbright –Nehru Scholar award to India)

2011  Blanche E Colman Award (nominated)

2010  Mena and Harold Rosenthal Faculty Research Award, Wellesley College

2010  Artist’s Grantfor residency at Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont 

2009  Mena and Harold Rosenthal Faculty Research Award, Wellesley College 

2008  Montague International Travel Grant (Switzerland), School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

2008  Graduate Teaching Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

2007  Dean's Discretionary Fund, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

2007  Graduate Teaching Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

2007  Bartlett Domestic Travel Grant, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

2006  Graduate Teaching Assistantship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

2006  Museum School Scholarship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

2005  Museum School Scholarship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019  This Strange Eventful History, Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre, Kolkata

2016  Neither here nor there, Gallery 121, Belmont University, Nashville, TN 

2014  Melancholy Jacques, 1 Shanthi Road, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

2013  The Switzerland of India, 1 Shanthi Road, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

2010  On Earth that is in Heaven for Calculated Risks, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, MA

2010  New Family, The Birdhouse, Knoxville, TN

2008  Somehow Form a Family, Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA

TWO-PERSON OR MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS

2017  8thAvenue Ocean, MoCA, Tucson, AZ 

2014  Bangalore Runoff, 444 Humphreys, Nashville, TN

2012  Walls, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile

2010  Walls forCalculated Risks, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, MA

2008  Islands of Isolation, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND SELECTED FESTIVALS 

2020  Reciprocation: American Fulbright Artists and India Connections and Collaborations, Ojas Art Gallery, Delhi, India, Curated by Kathryn Myers. 

2018  Photography comes first and language follows, Watkins College of Art Design and Film, Nashville, TN

2018 8thAve Ocean for “From Sea to Wind”, International Horn Symposium, Ball State University, Muncie, IN.

2018  8th Ave Ocean  for “From Sea to Wind”, University of Arizona Faculty Artist Series, Tucson, AZ. 

2018  8thAve Ocean  for “From Sea to Wind”, Guest Artist Recital, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Oberlin, OH. 

2018  8thAve Oceanfor “From Sea to Wind”, Grand Canyon Music Festival, Flagstaff, AZ. 

2016  New Members Show, COOP Gallery, Nashville, TN

2015  Deep Play Fun House, Track One, Nashville, TN juried by Brent Stewart

2015  Video Archipelago, Space Available, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Transmitter 

2015  Where the heart is, Home Sweet Home, Kalyan Nagar, Karnataka, India

2015  Bunting, Chemould Prescott Road Gallery, curated by Zasha Colah and Sumesh Sharma, Mumbai, India

2015  Just Another Photography Show, g159, Yelahanka, Karnataka, India, curated by Nihaal Faizal. 

2015  Oranbeg 13: The Dark is Light Enough, online exhibition

2015  Oranbeg 14: A New Glass, online exhibition

2014  And I laid traps for troubadours who get killed before they reach Bombay, Clark House/Kadist Foundation, Mumbai/Paris

2014  Spaghetti Harvest, Project 88, Mumbai, India                    

2012  The Invitation @ St. Mark’s Book Shop, New York, NY

2012  Souvenir, Camel Art Space, Williamsburg, NY

2011 Camel Art Space, Fountain Art Fair, New York, NY

2011 Get Bitter and Cling to Guns or Award Shows, Art and Science Projects, New York, NY

2011 Family Portraits, Foster Gallery, Dedham, MA

2010 New Stand, Art and Science Projects, New York, NY

2010 Alternative Histories, Exit Art, New York, NY

2010 Palace of Thunder, No. 2 Print Shop, Portland, OR 

2010 The Promise of Real Estate, Camel Art Space, Williamsburg, NY

2009  Unreal City, Unreal Country, Gallery The, Brooklyn, NY

2009  Pulp, Jewett Art Gallery, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 

2009  Boston Biennial, Atlantic Works Gallery, Boston, MA

2009 Gimme Baby Robots, EVO Seattle, WA 

2008  Arrivals/Departure, Jewett Art Gallery, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

2008  3rdAnnual Boston Young Contemporaries, 808 Commonwealth Gallery, Boston, MA

2008  Word of Mouth,Gallery Diet, Bridge Art Fair, Miami

2008  Ablaze in the Sky, Melvin Art Gallery, Florida Southern College

2008  Calming Relief, Mission Hill Studios, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

2007  Mash-Up, Doran Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design

2007  Pretty MFA, Mission Hill Studios, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

2007  Postcards from the Edge, James Cohen Gallery, New York, NY

2006  Master of Fine Arts Annual Juried Exhibition, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

2006  Boston Young Contemporaries, 808 Commonwealth Gallery, Boston, MA; Jurors:Kiki Smith, Laura Donaldson, Gideon Bok

2006  Medal Award Dinner, Silent Auction Juried Show, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

2005  New Students Show, BAG Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

2005  Master of Fine Arts Juried Exhibition, Anderson AuditoriumSchool of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

2004  Six-Stated Juried Photography Show, Firelands Association for the Visual Arts, Oberlin, OH,Juror: Pipo Nguyen-Duy

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2018  Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta- International Artist in Residence, Kolkata, West Bengal

2018  Learning Lab Artist in Residence, Senior Ride Nashville 

2014  1.Shanthi Road International Artist in Residence, Bangalore, Karnataka

2014  Clark House Initiative, Artist in Residence, Mumbai, Maharashtra 

2013  1.Shanthi Road International Artist in Residence, Bangalore, Karnataka

2011  Vermont Studio Center Residency Program, artist in residence

PRESENTATIONS

2019  This Strange Eventful History, 1Shanthiroad Studio Gallery, Bangalore, Karnataka – invited presentation on my archival based work on the Indo-American Ice Trade of the 1830s as well as earlier works

2019  This Strange Eventful History, The American Centre with US Consulate General Kolkata - invited presentation on my archival based work on the Indo-American Ice Trade of the 1830s 

2019  This Strange Eventful History, Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre (A unit of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta) - invited presentation on my archival based work on the Indo-American Ice Trade of the 1830s

2019  Historical Memory, Panel and Panel Chair for the ASDP conference, National Conference- accepted presentation of my work and how it relates photography to historical memory in the context of the Indo-American ice trade and present day snow theme parks.  

2018  Photography Comes First and Language Follows, Artist Talk for Exhibition, Watkins College of Art Design and Film,    Nashville, TN – presentation and panel discussion on my work as a part of an all Women Collective of Photographers and corresponding group exhibition. 

2018  Elusive Image Panel at SECAC, Panel chaired by Associate Professor of Photography, Vanderbilt University, Vesna  Pavlovic – accepted presentation on my work as it relates to construction and constructed images in photography, the use and function of images and my body of work, The Switzerland of India.

2016  Neither here nor there, lecture for Brett Kallusky’s Advanced Photography class, University of Wisconsin – River Falls – presentation to Kallusky’s photography class on my exhibition, Neither here nor there. 

2016  Neither here nor there, Presentation for Joechin Warich’s Art Experience Class, Belmont University 

2014 1. Shanthi Road, Lecture, New Work, Public Lecture on a new body of work produced that summer in India and the early stages of research for an upcoming body of work in Bangalore. 

2014  Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, New Work, Public Lecture on my artistic process to a graduate student seminar in Bangalore. 

2013  TAKE on Art Residency Panel, 1 Shanthi Road, Bangalore, Karnataka – presentation with a panel of internationally renowned artists and curators on the importance of international artist residencies.

2013  Switzerland of India,Artist Talk, 1 Shanthi Road, Bangalore, Karnataka – presentation on my Fulbright project, The Switzerland of Indiathat was presented alongside my solo exhibition for the same project. 

2013  Photography and Film Panel, 2012-2013 Fulbright Conference, Kochi, India – invited presentation at the Fulbright India Conference, where I presented on my Fulbright Research Project,The Switzerland of India and was also a part of a larger panel discussion with other Senior Fulbright Photographers and Filmmakers working in India 2012-2013. 

2012  Transformation of LandscapeWatkins College of Art, Design & Film, Nashville, TN – invited presentation on my work regarding the construction of landscape in photography as well as serving as a guest critic after my presentation. 

2012  Constructions and Cycles Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN – invited presentation on my work as it pertains to photographic construction and cycles of history. 

2012  The Switzerland of India, Research Club, Brick Factory, Nashville, TN  - presentation on my upcoming Fulbright project.

2011  Restoring the Landscape,TZE Society, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA- presentation on notions of landscape in photography, as it pertains to loss and distance. 

2011  Family Portraits, Panel Discussion, Noble and Greenough School, Dedham, MA – presentation on a body of constructed family portraits. 

2010  Walls: In and Out of the Museum, Panel for Wellesley Wednesdays, Wellesley College- presentation on a collaborative body of work I made with painter Daniela Rivera critiquing art institutions through looking at their walls. 

2010  On Earth That is in Heaven, Conversation in the Gallery, Wellesley College- presentation I made on a body of work about personal loss and the landscape. 

2010  Life on Earth and the Transformation of Landscape, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ – presentation I made on a body of work about landscape and its photographic constructions. 

2009  My Home’s in Heaven,Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA – presentation I made about the faith-based proposals of modernism in photography. 

2008  Faith Based Proposals of Modernism, Eight Photographers, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston- presentation about faith as a conceptual construct as it pertains to photographic practice.  

2008  Identity and the Vernacular Photograph, Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA- presentation I made on the construction of identity through the constructions of vernacular photography. 

2007  Somehow Form a Family, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY- presentation I made about my MFA thesis project to a photography class.

2007  Conceptual Development, Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA – presentation I made to a video art class on developing conceptual content. 

2007  The Constructed Image, Eight Photographers, School of the Museum of Fine Arts – presentation I made on the use and function of images and the sculptural qualities of photography. 

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2019  Senioritis/Senior-Ride-Is,Senior Photography + Ceramics Students Collaboration with Senior Ride Nashville at 8thand Roast Coffee House

2017  Western Travel Series, co-presented with Clark House Initiative at COOP Gallery, Nashville, TN

2015  and Living, Senior Photography students at Watkins Arcade Gallery, Nashville, TN

2015  List making exercises for Nashville, public exhibition, various locations in Nashville, TN

2014  G is for Gandhi: Photographs by Cop Shiva,RBANMS Kala Ranga, Bangalore, Karnataka- curated images for a solo photography exhibition of Cop Shiva’s work inaugurating the collaborative art space RBANMS Kala Ranga, exhibition inaugurated by Girish Karnad. 

2012  Earnest Tubb Record Shop Midnight Jamboree, Assisted Country Music Hall of Fame Curator Tim Davis with the selection of these images. Archived, restored and printed the selected images for exhibition.

2009  The Photograph and The Photograph’s Function, co-curated with Judith Black, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College

2009  The Promise of Real Estate, co-curated with Carl Gunhouse, GASP Gallery, Boston and Camel Art Space, Brooklyn, New York

PUBLICATIONS

“Reciprocation: American Fulbright Artists and India Connections”, Ojas Art Gallery and USIEF, Delhi, India, 2020

“Viewpoints, Dreamers and Various Outposts”- Land-Loafer Press (Bangalore, Vienna and Nashville- Based Publishers), 2013

“Bangalore Runoff”- Land-Loafer Press ((Bangalore, Vienna and Nashville-Based Publishers), 2013

“Easter Trouble” – Easter Trouble Press, Frankfurt Publishers, 2013

“The Invitation”, St. Mark’s Book Shop, March 2012

“Calculated Risks”, Museum Exhibition Catalog, Davis Museum, Wellesley, MA, 2010

BIBLIOGRAPHY

“Boston Ice Party”, The Telegraph,  2020 https://www.telegraphindia.com/amp/culture/heritage/exhibiton-on-ice-at-jadunath-bhavan-museum-and-resource-centre-based-on-fulbright-nehru-scholar-christine-rogers-research/cid/1760077

“Once upon a time Ice used to come to Kolkata from Boston”, Ananda Bazar Patrika, 2019 https://www.anandabazar.com/calcutta/once-upon-a-time-ice-used-to-come-to-kolkata-from-boston-1.1032579?fbclid=IwAR3EQecXBZdp5Mg1BHTRTCThDVkoIqa-YZweUIT1Dyi6udtdwVULgUL6RFk

Burnaway, Q&A: Christine Rogers and the Switzerland of India, Burnaway, 2016 http://burnaway.org/interview/qa-christine-rogers-and-the-switzerland-of-india/

Critics’ Picks, Christine Rogers: Neither here nor there,Nashville Scene, 2016 http://local.nashvillescene.com/event/gallery-121/christine-rogers-neither-here-nor-there

"Burnaway's Best: Who and What to Keep an Eye on in 2014", Burnaway.org 2014 http://burnaway.org/feature/burnaways-best-keep-eye-2014/

"Ice, alps, India", Dazed Digital, 2013
http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/17498/1/ice-alps-india

"Searching for the Switzerland of India", Hyperallergic, 2013 
http://hyperallergic.com/84296/where-romance-is-created-remembered-and-idealized/

 “People, landscapes, Bollywood”, The Hindu, August, 2013 http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/travel/people-landscapes-bollywood/article5038545.ece

“The Hills Are Alive”, Nashville Scene, July 2013 

“The Swiss Clones” The Bangalore Mirror, June 2013 http://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/entertainment/lounge/The-Swiss-clones/articleshow/21186703.cms

“Honeymoon Travels”, Time Out: Bengaluru, June 2013 

“Catching up with a Nashville Photog Abroad”, Country Life, Nashville Scene, January 2013 http://www.nashvillescene.com/arts-culture/article/13046400/christine-rogers-india-catching-up-with-a-nashvillian-photog-abroad

 “Local artist hopes photos reveal ‘Switzerland’ in India” The Tennessean, June 2012

“May’s Artist of the Month: Christine Rogers” Country Life, Nashville Scene, May 2012 http://www.nashvillescene.com/arts-culture/article/13043012/mays-artist-of-the-month-christine-rogers

 “Get Bitter and Cling to Guns or Religion or Award Shows…” Arts and Sciences Projects, January 2011

“Calculated Risks” Exhibition Catalog, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, September, 2010

“The Promise of Real Estate Exhibition Catalog”, Runhouse Productions, December, 2009 

"SMFA Graduate Thesis Exhibition", Big, Red and Shiny, April, 2008

"Seven SMFA Graduate Students Present Their Best Pieces…", The Tufts Daily, April 15, 2008

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Member, SECAC (2018-)

Member, Society for Photographic Education (2016-)

Member, COOP Gallery, Nashville, TN (2016-2017)

Member, Kappa Pi, Art Honors Society (2016-) 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Discipline Reviewer of Photography for Fulbright Commission, Senior Scholars (2016-2018)

Portfolio Reviewer, Society for Photographic Education (2017-2018)