LaRissa Rogers’ practice combines aspects of personal memory and history to forefront the capaciousness of blackness shaped by the experience of diasporas. Research and material become the entry point of broader social political interrogations, often asking the question, who and what survives?  

Earlier this year, Rogers was named to the Forbes' 2024 “30 under 30” list in the Art and Style category. Rogers has exhibited at Documenta 15 (Germany), the Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art (California), the California Museum of Photography, the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, California State University, Fullerton, and the Fuller Craft Museum (Massachusetts).  

She received the Visual Arts fellowship at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (2022) and the Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship (2023-2024). Rogers also held residencies at the BEMIS Center of Contemporary Art (2022) and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2024).  

Rogers received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Virginia Commonwealth University. 

Rogers is currently working on “Going to Ground,” a public sculpture commission at the Rose Kennedy Greenway, Boston. It is a site-specific installation interrogating the politics of home, mobility, arrival, sovereignty and freedom using soil as a conduit to conspire and speculatively engage with Zipporah Potter Atkins, the first-known Black woman to own a home in colonial Boston.