Biography

Roger Ngim is a San Francisco-born artist who lives and works in San Diego, California. He received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2004 and his MFA from SFAI in 2006.

Selected Exhibitions, Events & Screenings

2007

Artists Go Lightly. Curated by Sarah Barsness and Robin Ward. The innaugural exhibition by Temporary Autonomous Museum(s) in San Francisco.

Bay Area Music/Dance Videos. Curated by Heike Liss and Nomi Talisman. Fluctuating Images Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany.

Bay Area Music/Dance Videos. Curated by Heike Liss and Nomi Talisman. The Lab, San Francisco.

Divided Attention. April 2007, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

2006

More or Less 3,480 Seconds. Curated by Pablo Guardiola. Root Division, San Francisco.

Experimental Media Series: Cowboys, Cliches, Codes, and Conspiracies, curated by Margaret Parsons of the National Gallery of Art, Washington Project for the Arts/Corcoran, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Cream: From the Top, Arts Benicia, Benicia, California.

Moving Images, curated by Charles Boone, Facultad de Artes, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca, Mexico; Suwon Science College, Suwan, Korea; and Seo Kyong University, Seoul, Korea.

Divided Attention, presented by Steve Seid, video curator of the Pacific Film Archive, Flaherty Film Seminar, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York.

Roger Ngim: Recent Videos, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco.

San Francisco Art Institute Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, Herbst Pavilion, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco.

Divided Attention, San Francisco State University, San Francisco.

Death by Tealight 5, screening curated by Maggie Foster, Claudia Mendoza, and Catherine Czacki, Artists' Television Access, San Francisco

SlaveCannibalGod, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco

2005

Mayhem, screening curated by Valerie Soe, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco

Emerge, curated by Karin Breuer and Brian Gross, Gen Art, San Francisco

AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York

SFAI/CCA Exchange Show, Swell Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute

Conversations With the Wall, curated by Sarah Barsness, Root Division, San Francisco

That's So Queer, curated by Catherine Saiki, Crucible Steel Gallery, San Francisco

NewFangle, curated by Tony Labat, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Jennifer McCabe, and Shirley Schorr, Gen Art, San Francisco

In the Midst of a Storm (video for dance performance), Miami Dade College, Florida

Games People Play, curated by Steve Seid, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California

Blind Spot, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute

2004

Monumental, screening curated by Anne Walsh, Southern Exposure Gallery

Imaging Energy, curated by Teri Cohn and Meredith Tromble, Swissnex Gallery, San Francisco

The Chicken Show, Crucible Steel Gallery, San Francisco

Ad Hoc, Crucible Steel Gallery, San Francisco

Windows X, The Closet Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute

Publications & Reviews

"Cream, from the top," review by Chérie Louise Turner, Artweek, October, 2006.

CCA and SFAI: The MFA Shows, Catherine Czacki, Shotgun Review, June 18, 2006.

San Francisco Art Institute 2006 Master of Fine Arts Exhibition Catalogue, San Francisco Art Institute, May 2006.

"2005 Year in Review: Top 10 in Art", Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, December 25, 2005.

"Nice Surprises at this year's Emerge show for new talent", Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, November 15, 2005.