Andrew Rogers

CHRONOLOGY & BIBLIOGRAPHYAndrew Rogers is one of Australia's most distinguished contemporary sculptors with an international reputation. He exhibits internationally and his critically acclaimed sculptures are in numerous private and prominent public collections in Australia, S.E. Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States of America. He has received many international commissions and is creating the largest contemporary land art undertaking in the world, forming a chain of stone...See more

CHRONOLOGY & BIBLIOGRAPHYAndrew Rogers is one of Australia's most distinguished contemporary sculptors with an international reputation. He exhibits internationally and his critically acclaimed sculptures are in numerous private and prominent public collections in Australia, S.E. Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States of America. He has received many international commissions and is creating the largest contemporary land art undertaking in the world, forming a chain of stone sculptures, or Geoglyphs, around the globe. Monumental Geoglyphs have been constructed in nine countries to date - Israel, Chile, Bolivia, Sri Lanka, Australia, Iceland, China, India and Turkey. SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND DISPLAYS2007 Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, Iceland: Rhythms of Life I-VII2007 James Gray Gallery, Santa Monica, USA2007 William Mora Gallery, Richmond, Australia2005 Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, Australia2004 Grounds for Sculpture, New Jersey, U.S.A.2004 Gomboc Sculpture Park, W.A. AustraliaSELECTED MUSEUMS, PUBLIC & CORPORATE COLLECTIONS,INTERNATIONALGrounds for Sculpture, New Jersey, USAStonebriar Park, Dallas, Texas, USAHebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, IsraelHarwood Center, Dallas, Texas, USAHall Vineyard Inc., California, USAMachu Picchu Municipality, PeruSELECTED MUSEUMS, PUBLIC & CORPORATE COLLECTIONS, AUSTRALIANational Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACTArt Gallery of New South WalesNational Gallery of VictoriaVictorian Arts Centre, MelbourneINVITED LECTURES & WORKSHOPSState of the World Forum - San Francisco, U.S.A.Artist in Residence, Institute of Technology at Technion University, Haifa, IsraelThe Young Presidents' Organization. Auckland, New ZealandSymposium at Sculptures by the Sea, Bondi, NSW, AustraliaCONTROBUTORS BIOGRAPHY:Eleanor Heartney, Arts Writer and Critic, New York, USAResides in New York, USAHeartney is contributing editor to Art in America and Artpress and has written extensively on contemporary art issues for many other magazines.Her books include Critical Condition: American Culture at the Crossroads, Postmodernism, and Postmodern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art. Heartney received in 1992 the College Art Association's Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism. Since 2003, she has been co-president of AICA-USA, the American section of the International Art Critics Association.Lilly Wei, Arts Writer and Critic, New York, USAResides in New York, USALilly Wei is an independent curator and critic based in New York. She has written for many publications in the United States and abroad, as a contributing editor at ARTnews and Art Asia Pacific, as a regular contributor since 1982 to Art in America, as well as Asian Art News, Art Papers, Sculpture Magazine, Tema Celeste, Flash Art, Art Press, Art and Auction and Glass Quarterly, among others. She has been the essayist for many exhibition catalogues and brochures on contemporary art, including publications for the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Neuberger Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has served on numerous advisory panels and review committees, including the Pew Fellowship awards, and is a member of several boards, including the International Association of Art Critics (AICA/USA), Art in General, and Art Omi, an international artist residency programme. Wei has been a guest lecturer, panellist and visiting critic at art institutions in the United States and abroad, and has curated numerous shows. She has an M.A. in art history from Columbia University, New York.Hannes Sigurdsson, Director of the Akureyri Museum, Iceland. Resides in Reykjavik, IcelandHannes Sigurdsson has been actively involved in the art world for 27 years. He was appointed the... See less