A native of Sydney, Australia, Rob Rogers has drawn and painted since he was old enough to hold a pencil. Attending The National Art School and Sydney College of the Arts in the 1970s, studying painting and design, he has spent many years as an award winning creative director in advertising. In 2006 he moved to New York full-time, where he has devoted greater amounts of time to making art, taking up encaustic (wax painting) as a medium in 2009. During this time he had two one-person shows in Washington DC and was represented in group shows in New York and Brooklyn. In 2014 he returned to realism and contributed to group shows in Branford Connecticut.
Having explored techniques and an array of materials, his subjects has outlined and traversed many of life's geographies, and while traveling he has explored differing subject, style and techniques. After working in encaustic wax and exploring the inner and outer nature of surface, he returned to using paint and a study of realism in 2015. These works have occupied his time and are influenced by the manner in which he splits his time between the northern and southern hemispheres.
Rogers work is found in private collections in Sydney, Melbourne, Milan, San Francisco and New York. Recently he has exhibited at galleries in Sydney, Brooklyn and Manhattan.