About

Celeste Rogers is an emerging contemporary artist based in Washington, DC whose layered mixed-media works investigate the intersection of landscape, material agency, and embodied experience. Working with constructed surfaces that combine paper and cloth collage, packaging, building materials, fibers, and canvases warped by the tension of the materials they hold, Rogers treats the picture plane as both site and structure.

Materials are allowed to assert their own logic, shaping compositions that move between improvisation and control.Often approaching or exceeding human scale, her works function as spatial encounters that invite viewers to reflect on their relationship to place, production, and the physical presence of objects.

Rogers was born in Chicago, where she began her studies at the School of the Art Institute before earning a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2008. After a decades-long career in the culinary arts, she returned fully to studio practice, bringing with her a process-driven sensibility and a sustained interest in transformation, labor, and material experimentation.