About

Celeste Rogers is a contemporary artist based in the Gateway Arts District of Washington, DC. Her work explores landscape through the lens of sensory experience and materiality, drawing on a lifelong fascination with the intersection of industry, memory, and the natural world.

Raised in Chicago, Rogers grew up observing the continuous transformation of a major industrial and transportation hub—where construction and decay coexisted in constant motion. These early impressions inform her visual language, where relics of place and process emerge through layered surfaces and found materials.

After earning her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and continuing studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Rogers spent over a decade as both a chef and painter in Chicago—a dual practice rooted in process, intuition, and immediacy.

Rogers’ work blurs the line between the cultivated and the organic, tracing the evolution of materials from origin to composition. She integrates traditional media with constructed surfaces, packaging, paper collage, building remnants, and warped canvases shaped by the inherent tension and texture of their components. Her immersive works invite viewers to reflect on their own sensory and material relationships to landscape.

Rogers exhibits her work in Chicago and the Northeast, most recently in A Sense of Place in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Her work is included in several private collections.