Henry Rogers is the MFA Programme Leader at Glasgow School of Art.
From 1997-2017 he worked at Birmingham School of Art where he was latterly Head of Postgraduate Taught Studies responsible for all postgraduate provision in the school. He led the Art-based Masters Programme, hailed as one of the best programmes in Europe, from 2009 – 2017. Whilst overall Director he was Programme Leader of MA Fine Art and in 2009 developed the MA Queer Studies in Arts and Culture, a unique award, the first to be developed in the UK.
In 1987 he gained a first class pass in Drawing and Painting from Edinburgh College of Art where he was awarded the Watt Medal for Excellence in a field of study. In 1989 he gained a Masters in Painting from the Royal College of Art. In 1990 he was awarded the Mark Rothko Memorial Trust Award to live and work in the USA and in 2001 he became an Abbey Fellow at the British School at Rome. Since 1990 he has worked in art schools in the UK and between 1986 and 2002 he lived and worked in Florence, Paris, New York and Rome.
He is an interdisciplinary practitioner working with drawing, painting, photography and writing. He is concerned with formality, mediation and mimesis in art with particular reference to queer theory and queer strategies in art practice. He has initiated projects addressing the impact of performance and performativity on art-based production.
