COLLECTIONS and EXHIBITIONS 

2007
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP Collection, NYC. Mixed
media painting entitled "A Heated Frenzy On A Snowy
Day".

Bondsmith Collection, Pasadena Ca. Mixed media
painting entitled “Satyre’s Window”.

Finalist for "This Urgent Moment", Fall 2007
Artists Wanted international competition in Chelsea,
NYC: http://www.artistswanted.org/

Paintings “Biker”, and “The Tower of the Broken
Angel” are published in online magazine Bakers Dozen.

Painting titled “Eternity House” published in
Dec 2007 issue of REDIVIDER literary magazine from
Emerson College in Boston.

2006-2007
Visual AIDS Online exhibitions.
http://www.visualaids.org

2005
Featured performance artist with Cirque Du
Soliel in Brooklyn performance at Mark Morris Dance
Studios.

2005
Roger's performance art was featured on The Dave
Chapelle Show.

1997-2005
Roger Anthony Mapes performed as YOLANDA
singer/songwriter/gender warrior with his/her band
"Yolanda and the Plastic Family". Roger created the
character "Yolanda", wrote the music, created the
costumes, toured and recorded with his/her band.
Performances at CBGB's mainstage, The Cutting Room,
Webster Hall, and The Limelight nightclubs. For more
information go to: www.yolanda.net

1997-1999
Roger's music favorably reviewed in
Billboard Magazine 5 times. Larry Flick called him the
"...best unsigned artist of 1999".

1995-1996
Painting titled "Deva Of The Cornfield" in
Billboard Magazine as cover art for 2 pull- out
special music "zines" called "ON THE TIP"

1995-1996
Roger's paintings used as cover art of 2 cd
covers on the "Strictly Rhythm" dance music record
label.

1994-1997
Roger's paintings and performance works
have also been shown at The Leslie Lohman, Ward-Nasse,
CBGB Galleries, plus The Shelter, and The Limelight
nightclubs.


EDUCATION

MFA Performance Art, Vermont College, Montpelier,
Vermont,1996

The American Musical and Dramatic Academy, New York,
New York,1986

MA Theatre, The University of Memphis,
Memphis,Tennessee,1983

BA Painting and Drawing, The University of North
Alabama, Florence, ALabama,1980


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