Fawn Rogers

Overview

Portrait of Fawn Rogers holding an oyster. © Fawn Rogers. Courtesy of the artist

Our current geological era is one giant crime scene and we’re all personally involved. It’s overwhelming at times, human nature in conflict with the natural world, a complex thrill and sorrow. I’m interested in harmony, has it ever existed?

— Fawn Rogers

Fawn Rogers, born in Portland, Oregon in 1974, is a Los Angeles-based contemporary artist. Through painting, photography, video, and sculptural installation, Rogers addresses the idea of power as the currency of human nature and the conflict with the natural world. In a geological epoch characterized by pandemic, climate crises, and rampant human rights abuses, Rogers dives into the seemingly contradictory forces at play within the heart of this time period where humanity has effected change we can no longer reverse. The work responds to the hard truths of living through the advanced stages of technological power amidst human brutality and indifference towards exploitation. Interested in social constructionism, Rogers' art recognizes a full range of existence, including violence, innocence, and invention.

Her aesthetic incorporates realism, conceptualism, and the synthesis of text and image. Straddling the line between still-life and portraiture, Rogers’ paintings appear deceivingly photorealistic from afar, while revealing the impressionistic intricacies of the painter’s hand upon closer examination.

She has shown her paintings, photographs, and conceptual installations in museums and galleries, alongside non-traditional locations, on five continents. Recent solo exhibitions include Come Ruin or Rapture, Galerie Marguo (Paris, 2023); GODOG, Lauren Powell Projects (Los Angeles 2023); Burn, Gleam, Shine, Galerie Marguo at K11 MUSEA (Hong Kong, 2023); Your Perfect Plastic Heart, Wilding Cran Gallery (Los Angeles, 2022); Violent Garden, The Lodge (Los Angeles, 2017); and Subject, Museum of Art and History (Lancaster, CA 2016). Select group exhibitions include Beach, Nino Mier Gallery (New York, 2023); L.A. Woman, Phillips (Los Angeles, 2023); My Body, My Business, Sotheby’s (New York, 2023); Art Paris 2023 Presentation, Galerie Marguo, (Paris, 2023); Solitude, Nexx Taipei (Taiwan, 2023); Boil Toil & Trouble, Art In Common (Miami, 2022); You Me Me You, Nicodim Gallery (Los Angeles, California, 2022); Holy Water, Eric Firestone Gallery (East Hampton, New York, 2022); Don’t Give Me Flowers, Praz-Delavallade (Los Angeles, California, 2022); Everything Has Its Place, Sevil Dolmaci (Istanbul, 2021); and Yes Yes it is Burning Me, Mykonos Biennale (Mykonos, Greece, 2019).

Her works are included in numerous public and private collections including Dakis Joannou Collection, Niarchos Family Collection, Pritzker Family Foundation, Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH).

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Biography

Fawn Rogers, Happy As A Clam #1, 2021, oil on canvas 215.9 x 165.1 cm (detail)

Born 1974, in Portland, Oregon. Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024	MAKE ROOM, Everything is Sacred Nothing is Precious; Everything is Precious Nothing is Sacred, Los Angeles, CA
2023	Galerie Marguo, COME RUIN OR RUPTURE, Paris, FR
	Lauren Powell Projects, GODOG, Los Angeles, CA
	Galerie Marguo, BURN, GLEAM, SHINE, K11 Musea, Hong- Kong
	Wilding Cran Gallery, Your Perfect Plastic Heart, Los Angeles, CA
2017	The Lodge, Violent Garden, Hollywood, CA
2016	Museum of Art and History, SUBJECT, Lancaster, CA
2015	Select Art Fair, COURT, New York, NY
	Site-specific installation, Embraer Executive Jets private showroom, The Spirits That Lend Strength Are Visible, Melbourne, FL
2014	HATCH, Visible Light & I Love You And That Makes Me God, Los Angeles, CA
2013	Dawit Yohannes/World Bank, Visible Light, Juba, South Sudan

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024	Art Collaboration Kyoto with Galerie Marguo, Kyoto, JP Galerie Marguo, Deli Dali, Paris, France
2023	Nino Mier Gallery, Beach, New York, NY
	Phillips, L.A. Woman, Los Angeles, CA
	Galerie Marguo, Art Paris 2023, Paris, France
	Sothebys, My Body, My Business, New York, NY
	Art in Common, Boil Toil & Trouble, Chicago, IL
	Art in Common, Boil Toil & Trouble, Los Angeles, CA
	M+B Gallery, My Condolences, Los Angeles, CA
	Nexx Taipei, Solitude, Taiwan
2022	Art in Common, Boil Toil & Trouble, Miami, FL
	Nicodim Gallery, You Me Me You, Los Angeles, CA
	Eric Firestone Gallery, Holy Water, East Hampton, NY
	Praz-Delvallade, Dont Give Me Flowers, Los Angeles, CA
	Case Gallery, The Tenth Muse, Los Angeles, CA
2021	Signs and Symbols, Artists & Allies IV, New York, NY
	Untitled Art Fair, Alaina Simone, Miami, FL
	Sevil Dolmaci, Everything Has Its Place, Istanbul, Turkey
	Tethys Art, The Knockturnal, Hampton's, NY
2020	The Wallis Annenberg Center for Performing Arts, TZ Projects, Visions In Light, Beverly Hills, CA
	TZ Projects, GOING HOME: a picture show, Los Angeles, CA
2019	MYKONOS BIENNALE, Yes Yes it is Burning Me, Mykonos, Greece
	Emergent Gallery, SCENARIOS OF DESIRE II, Veurne, Belgium
	Kopeikin Gallery, The Vision Board, Los Angeles, CA
	CGU, Get a Loom, Los Angeles, CA
2018	Site-specific installation, Repairs in The Sky, Uyuni, Bolivia
	The Mecca California – The Lodge Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
	Soft Core Gallery, Fun on the Floor, Los Angeles, CA
	Gallery in the Seattle Art Fair, Chimento Contemporary,Seattle, WA
	Fullerton College, Luz: Exploring Light, Fullerton, CA
2017	Young Projects Gallery, Vulnerability: The Space Between Group Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
2016	Superchief Gallery, Annual Bi Coastal Group Show, Los Angeles CA
2015	NADA Art Fair, Eye In the Sky, New York, NY
	Site-specific installation, Miami Airport American Airlines Admirals Club, V135459-V1211495AB, Miami, FL
2014	Site-specific installation, Alexandria Care Center, Visible Light, Los Angeles, CA
	Site-specific installation, American Eagle Building Time Square, I Love You And That Makes Me God, New York, NY
	Site-specific installation, Humanefits, Visible Light, Los Angeles, CA
2013	Site-specific installation, Alan Friedman, Assassination and the Exchange Rate, Beverly Hills, CA
2012	Site-specific installation, First Capitol Consulting, Inc., Secret Nirvanas and Assassination and the Exchange Rate, Los Angeles, CA
2003	844, Equus Fueris Caballus, Los Angeles, CA
2002	Miauhaus Studios, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Los Angeles, CA
1999	Ancona, Earth to Hand, Marche, ITALY
1998	Site-specific installation, The Back House, I Like the Dark, Its Friendly, Los Angeles, CA
1997	Site-specific installation, Floor 53, Everything I Need, Tokyo, Japan
1995	Site-specific installation, Shiyoka Love Hotel, Kokoro, Tokyo, Japan
1993	Site-specific installation, Koregaon Park, Jewels, Gods, and Dust, a three-story site-specific installation, Puna, INDIA

Collections

Dakis Joannou Collection
Philip Niarchos Collection
Pritzker Family Foundation
Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) Collection
Abby Pucker Collection
Daniel Xu & Flora Huang Collection

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Works

Fawn Rogers
Sundowner, 2024
Oil on canvas
127 x 101.6 cm (50 x 40 in)
Fawn Rogers
Car Meat (Akhal Teke), 2023
Accident impacted car hoods, casters, meat hooks, trollies, automotive primer and paint. Rack mixed metals.
238.8 x 152.4 x 76.2 cm (94 x 60 x 30 in)
Unique
Fawn Rogers
Claudia, 2023
Oil on canvas
71.12 x 55.88 cm (28 x 22 in)
Fawn Rogers
Come Ruin or Rapture (Christina's world), 2023
Oil on canvas
203.2 x 152.4 cm (80 x 60 in)
Fawn Rogers
Contemplating the Minds of 1000 Strangers, 2023
Accident impacted door with mirror, steel, autmotive primer and paint (wall relief)
71.1 x 71.1 x 20.3 cm (28 x 28 x 8 in)
Weight: approx 6.8 kg (15 ibs)
Unique
Fawn Rogers
Everything that has time in it and becoming, 2023
Oil on canvas
101.6 x 127 cm (40 x 50 in)
Fawn Rogers
Green Green Grass of Home, 2023
Oil on canvas
76.2 x 101.6 cm (30 x 40 in)
Fawn Rogers
Hot in Herre, 2023
Oil on canvas
76.2 x 101.6 cm (30 x 40 in)
Fawn Rogers
Kick, 2023
Oil on canvas
76.2 x 101.6 cm (30 x 40 in)
Fawn Rogers
Lipstick, 2023
Oil on canvas
49.53 x 41.275 cm (19 1/2 x 16 1/4 in)
Fawn Rogers
My Back Pages, 2023
Oil on canvas
144.8 x 182.9 cm (57 x 72 in)
Fawn Rogers
My Happy Horse, 2023
Oil on canvas
152.4 x 203.2 cm (60 x 80 in)
Fawn Rogers
Readiness Improvement Program, 2023
Oil on canvas
76.2 x 101.6 cm (30 x 40 in)
Fawn Rogers
Ripped Skirt, 2023
Oil on canvas
106.68 x 137.16 cm (42 x 54 in)
Fawn Rogers
Snu Snu, 2023
Oil on canvas
102.9 x 127 cm (40 1/2 x 50 in)
Fawn Rogers
TBC, 2023
Oil on canvas
165.1 x 215.9 cm (65 x 85 in)
Fawn Rogers
The grass the grass, 2023
Oil on canvas
47.625 x 67.31 cm (18 3/4 x 26 1/2 in)
Fawn Rogers
The night sky, 2023
Oil on canvas
55.88 x 71.12 cm (22 x 28 in)
Fawn Rogers
Jestope, 2022
Oil on canvas
165.1 x 215.9 cm (65 x 85 in)
Fawn Rogers
The First Time, 2022
Oil on canvas
165.1 x 215.9 cm (65 x 85 in)
Fawn Rogers
Your Ass is Grass 1, 2022
Oil on canvas
30.5 x 30.5 cm (12 x 12 in)
Fawn Rogers
Your Ass is Grass 10, 2022
Oil on canvas
50.8 x 50.8 cm (20 x 20 in)
Fawn Rogers
Your Ass is Grass 2, 2022
Oil on canvas
40.6 x 30.5 cm (16 x 12 in)
Fawn Rogers
Your Ass is Grass 4, 2022
Oil on canvas
50.8 x 50.8 cm (20 x 20 in)
Fawn Rogers
Your Ass is Grass 8, 2022
Oil on canvas
50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in)
Fawn Rogers
Atmorelational, 2021
Oil on canvas
215.9 x 165.1 cm (85 x 65 in)
Fawn Rogers
Electric Oyster, 2021
Oil on canvas
165.1 x 215.9 cm (65 x 85 in)
Fawn Rogers
Epoquetude, 2021
Oil on canvas
165.1 x 215.9 cm (65 x 85 in)
Fawn Rogers
Happy As A Clam #1, 2021
Oil on canvas
215.9 x 165.1 cm (85 x 65 in)
Fawn Rogers
Happy As A Clam #2, 2021
Oil on canvas
215.9 x 165.1 cm (85 x 65 in)
Fawn Rogers
Surbrace, 2021
Oil on canvas
215.9 x 165.1 cm (85 x 65 in)
Fawn Rogers
The Most Beautiful Pearls Are Black, 2021
Oil on canvas
165.1 x 215.9 cm (65 x 85 in)
Fawn Rogers
Our Lady Guadalupe, 2020
Oil on canvas
215.9 x 165.1 cm (85 x 65 in)