Bio
Born Denver, CO, USA. Lives and works in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Roger Boyce, American expat based in New Zealand for several years, is senior lecturer in painting at Canterbury University in Christchurch. His own studio practice revolves around expanding definitions of painting and delight.
He has enjoyed one-person exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and Paris, and his work is represented in the collections of numerous American institutions such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, New York University, the University Art Museum and University of California at Berkeley. Boyce's awards include a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship; Mid-Atlantic Foundation National Endowment to the Arts Grant; Harnish Foundation Fellowship; The Andrew Harper Award; and Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Nomination. He has taught at Smith College, Princeton University and Carnegie Mellon and has organized exhibitions in New York and New England.
Roger has also contributed critical writing to Art in America, Sculpture and Art New Zealand, amongst other publications.