LaRissa Rogers

Artist Fellow, Artist Exchange

LaRissa Rogers (b. 1996) is a multidisciplinary artist born in Charlottesville, VA. She holds a BFA in Painting and Printmaking and BIS in International Fashion Buying from Virginia Commonwealth University. She has exhibited work and performed in institutions such as ICOSA in Austin, TX; Fields Projects in NY; Welcome Gallery in Charlottesville, VA; Target Gallery in Alexandria, VA; 1708 Gallery in Richmond, VA; Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, VA; The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative in Charlottesville, VA; Black Ground in Cali, Columbia; W Doha in Qatar; The Fronte Arte Cultura in San Ysidro, CA; and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Virginia Beach, VA. She is the 2021-2022 Visual Arts fellow at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, a 2021-2022 Black Spatial Relics artist in resident, and a 2021-2022 grant recipient of the Black Artists and Designers Guild Creative Futures Grant. She is currently pursuing her MFA in New Genres at the University of California Los Angeles and will be attending the BEMIS Center of Contemporary Arts Residency in Summer 2022.

Instagram: @vi0let.lena

Bio courtesy of the artist.

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