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Bobby Rogers (b. 1992) is a visual historian, photographer and art director from Minneapolis, Minnesota. His work has broken barriers across various industries and has continued to garner the attention of publications across the globe. Rogers was named Minnesota Monthly’s Top Visual Artists to Watch in 2016, and City Pages named Rogers an Artist of the Year in 2017. His work seamlessly blends his passion for design and futurism with his long standing commitment for intellectual rigor and cultural exploration. His photography incorporates themes of identity, history and philosophy to tell subtle stories of beauty amidst precarity.

After graduating from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design in 2014, Rogers was soon named the official photographer for the Walker Art Center, and subsequently became the first Senior Art Director of African American Style at Target Corporation.

His first solo exhibition titled ‘The Blacker the Berry’ premiered at Public Functionary (2017) to wide acclaim with Juxtapoz Magazine writing, “The show is delicately complex and understated, yet unapologetically bold and confident in it’s humility.”

Rogers has premiered work at various institutions from the Minnesota Historical Society and the International Center of Photography to the Naughton Gallery in Northern Ireland. He has spoken at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Humprey School of Public Policy, and others.

He has also amassed a list of clientele that includes the New York Times, Apple, PAPER Magazine, Timberland, Redbull, Vox Media, Ghetto Gastro, and others. Rogers is the Co-Founder and Creative Director of The Bureau, a multidisciplinary creative media studio that produces critical dialogue and intellectual ingenuity through robust artistic production.


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