Christine Rogers

Biography

Christine Rogers is an artist from Nashville, Tennessee. She earned her BA in Anthropology from Oberlin College in 2004 and her MFA in Studio Art/Photography from Tufts University in 2008. She has exhibited widely across the United States and was in a two-person show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago, Chile, in the fall of 2012 and at MoCA Tucson in 2018.

She is a two-time Fulbright Nehru Senior Research Scholar for India (2012-2013 and 2018-2019) and a recipient of several Metro Arts grants. Her first solo show in India was in the spring of 2013 at 1 Shanthi Road Gallery in Bangalore, Karnataka and she has since shown again in Mumbai in group shows at Clark House Initiative, Project 88, and Chemould Prescott. Her research and teaching has been centered around art in the context of global warming, cultural perceptions of landscape and vernacular photography, rediscovered archives, personal narrative, and the use and function of images in our personal and collective lives.

She has had artist residencies at Vermont Studio Center, 1 Shanthi Road in Bangalore, Clark House Initiative in Mumbai and was a Learning Lab Artist in Residence through Metro Arts. Her work has been written about in Time Out Bengaluru, The Bangalore Mirror, The Hindu, New Landscape Photography, The Juggernaut Magazine, Dazed Digital, Burnaway Magazine, The Tennessean, and The Nashville Scene. She has spoken widely on her work and research at The American Center with the US Consulate General Kolkata, the Fulbright Conference in Kochi, the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta, as well as various conferences Universities in the United States. She is an Associate Professor of Photography at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.