Christy Lee Rogers

BAROQUE UNDERWATER WORLDS TAKE OVER LONDON'S OXFORD STREET: CHRISTY LEE ROGERS’ MYTHS AND LEGENDS AT W1 CURATES

29 November – 3 December 2025 | W1 Curates, 161 - 167 Oxford Street, London

Presented by Studio 74 Contemporary Art
An Immersive Multimedia Event
Admission: Free   Open to the Public
RSVP Here (Essential) to attend the Dec. 3rd Closing Party and Talk with the artist

Baroque underwater artist Christy Lee Rogers' Alantea from Myths and Legends

2025 “Atlantea” from Christy Lee Rogers’ Myths and Legends Collection

Internationally acclaimed visual artist Christy Lee Rogers returns to the UK with a new solo exhibition that reimagines classical mythology through her signature underwater lens.

Titled Myths and Legends, the exhibition will transform the iconic façade of W1 Curates on Oxford Street, as Rogers’ luminous underwater figures are projected across 300 state-of-the-art LED screens—turning one of London’s busiest streets into a vast theatre of light, colour, and movement.

Inside, visitors are invited into a world of myth and metamorphosis—a series of monumental underwater photographs that reframe the timeless stories of heroes, lovers, and seekers with a contemporary twist. Using the fluid medium of water and her mastery of light and colour, Rogers reimagines these ancient archetypes as deeply human figures—suspended between chaos and calm, love and loss, shadow and illumination.

Baroque underwater artist Christy Lee Rogers' Athena's Keepers of Peace from Myths and Legends

2025 “Athena’s Keepers of Peace” from Christy Lee Rogers’ Myths and Legends Collection

By merging past and present, Rogers uncovers the shared emotions and experiences that bind us across centuries: the search for meaning, the courage to love, and the unending desire to rise beyond limitation. These age-old tales—once told to explain the world—resurface here as reflections of our own lives beneath the surface of the modern world.

Christy Lee Rogers says "The world today feels so chaotic that I wanted to step back—to look from the outside and see how these same struggles, stories of hardship, war, heroism, and tragic love have existed since the beginning of time. In doing so, I found comfort and a deeper perspective on humanity. Perhaps we have always sought the drama and the chaos, needing something to fight for, something to believe in—a way to find meaning in it all."

Presented in partnership with Studio 74 Contemporary Art, Myths and Legends is more than an exhibition—it is an experience. A modern retelling of humanity’s most enduring stories, seen through the prism of water and light, reminding us that even now, the mythic still flows within us.

Christy Lee Rogers' Mysteries of the World from her Myths and Legends Collection

2025 “Mysteries of the World” from Christy Lee Rogers’ Myths and Legends Collection

ART LABOR GALLERY PRESENTS CHRISTY LEE ROGERS: AQUEOUS RENAISSANCE, A RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION, SHANGHAI, CHINA

September 6 - October 26, 2025
Shanghai, China – ART LABOR Gallery is honored to present Aqueous Renaissance, a major retrospective of internationally acclaimed artist Christy Lee Rogers. For more than twenty years, Rogers has pursued a singular vision underwater, crafting images that critics have likened to the grandeur of Renaissance and Baroque painting. Suspended bodies, drenched in light and movement, appear as if drawn from another era, yet speak urgently to the world we live in today.

Art Labor Gallery is honored to present Aqueous Renaissance, a major retrospective of internationally acclaimed artist Christy Lee Rogers

Given the current circumstances of constantly evolving China–US relations, art continues to provide a steady bridge for dialogue and understanding across geographical and cultural distances. Hawaiian-born American artist Christy Lee Rogers stands at the center of this exchange, her work embodies light, water, and movement creating a language that transcends borders. Growing up in the center of the Pacific ocean, between East and West, Rogers was born to carry the kind and welcoming island spirit of Hawaiian seas into the global cultural milieu with her Baroque-inspired underwater photography, offering a vision of humanity that is at once universal and deeply personal. As tensions rise between the two nations, her art demonstrates how creativity can serve as something unifying and positive —illuminating our shared vulnerabilities, our beauty, and our potential for an eternal connection beyond politics.

In her native Hawaiʻi, Rogers discovered water as both her stage and her muse. Through carefully choreographed scenes photographed at night in swimming pools, she creates vast, luminous dramas that recall the intensity of Caravaggio and the sweeping motion of Rubens. Yet her art belongs firmly to the present—cinematic in scale, deeply human in its vulnerability, and shaped by influences that range from mythology to the dreamlike visions of filmmakers Federico Fellini, Baz Luhrmann, and James Cameron.

Art Labor Gallery Presents Christy Lee Rogers: Aqueous Renaissance, A Retrospective Exhibition

The exhibition title, Aqueous Renaissance, reflects Rogers’ creation of a new kind of rebirth—one made of water, light, and flesh. At a time when the world feels fractured and uncertain, her work reminds us of the enduring need for beauty, for narrative, and for images that confront chaos with clarity and grace. Her underwater visions are not escapist fantasies but mirrors of our collective condition—fragile, fluid, and searching for meaning.

"For me, water has always been both chaos and freedom," Rogers says. "It strips away control and asks us to see ourselves in a different light. That’s where my stories begin."

Aqueous Renaissance marks Rogers’ first retrospective in Shanghai, gathering her most iconic works across two decades of experimentation and vision, and offering audiences the chance to see how an artist can remake photography into something painterly, cinematic, and profoundly human. Presented in a city built on its rivers and defined by constant renewal, the exhibition finds a fitting home—one where the dialogue between water, history, and rebirth continues to shape both art and life.

CHRISTY LEE ROGERS is an internationally celebrated visual artist known for her pioneering underwater photography. Her work has been commissioned by James Cameron for Avatar: The Way of Water and Disney, featured in Apple campaigns, and exhibited worldwide. She was awarded Open Photographer of the Year at the 2019 Sony World Photography Awards, and her works are housed in both public and private collections across the globe.

Founded in 2006, ART LABOR Gallery has established itself as one of Shanghai’s leading contemporary art spaces, recognized for introducing international artists to China while championing innovative new voices from the region. The gallery has built a reputation for curating exhibitions that are both conceptually rigorous and visually compelling, with a focus on cross-cultural dialogue and experimentation across mediums. Over nearly two decades, Art Labor has presented projects that bridge art, design, and film, becoming a vital platform in Shanghai’s dynamic cultural landscape and a touchstone for audiences seeking globally connected perspectives in contemporary art.  
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BODYSCAPES OPENING AT LOAD GALLERY IN BARCELONA - WHERE CHRISTY LEE ROGERS' UNDERWATER VIDEO ART WILL BE FOR SALE AND ON EXHIBIT TILL SEPTEMBER

Now on exhibit… “Bodyscapes” at Load Gallery in Barcelona, Spain. Nine of artist Christy Lee Rogers’ underwater immersive video installations will be on display, along with nine other incredible female artists. Very grateful to Load Gallery and all of you for your continued love and support.!!!

Load Gallery Website

Sirens Video Installation, Christy Lee Rogers, Load Gallery, Barcelona

CHRISTY LEE ROGERS' "VENUS RISING" IS DONATED TO INSTITUTO GABRIEL WICKBOLD, SAO PAULO, BRAZIL

Christy Lee Rogers’ Venus Rising reimagines the birth of Venus through her signature Baroque-inspired lens. Layers of flowing silk and vivid color drift in suspended motion, as a central figure in white ascends toward the surface, her form haloed in light.

This work has been generously donated to the Instituto Gabriel Wickbold in São Paulo, Brazil with all proceeds dedicated to supporting local artists in their creative process—nurturing the next wave of visionaries in Brazil’s vibrant art community.

Christy Lee Rogers donates "Venus Rising" to INSTITUTO GABRIEL WICKBOLD, SAO PAULO, BRAZIL

ARTIST CHRISTY LEE ROGERS' "EXTRAORDINARY PORTRAITS" EPISODE NOW ON AMAZON PRIME

We are excited to announce the BBC TV show that Christy Lee Rogers did in 2022 called "Extraordinary Portraits" from Chatterbox Media is now on Amazon Prime.  Season 1, Episode 2.  See it on AMAZON

Celebrated international photographer Christy Lee Rogers helps Cee Cee, a model with albinism, on her journey from self-proclaimed "ugly duckling" to elegant swan.

Led by creative matchmaker, Tinie, Extraordinary Portraits invites ordinary people with extraordinary stories to sit for some of the most distinctive and ground-breaking artists in the world.

We are excited to announce the BBC TV show that Christy Lee Rogers did in 2022 called "Extraordinary Portraits" from Chatterbox Media is now on Amazon Prime.

On set in London, UK - Produced by Chatterbox Media - Nav Raman, Pete Coventry

BODYSCAPES BOOK RELEASE INCLUDES IMAGES OF ARTIST CHRISTY LEE ROGERS' VIDEO WORKS

We are excited to announce that Christy Lee Rogers’ video installation works will be in a book! Alongside nine incredible artists, she is part of Bodyscapes—a new publication released by Vetro Editions Berlin on the occasion of the group exhibition at Load Gallery (Barcelona), which explores the body as a territory: a mutable site shaped by memory, material experience, and emotional charge —a lived terrain. 

Each artist has their own cover (!); get your copy. https://vetroeditions.com/products/bodyscapes 

Christy Lee Rogers' video works in Vetro Editions Book, Load Gallery, Barcelona
Christy Lee Rogers' video works in Vetro Editions Book, Load Gallery, Barcelona

WE'RE EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE CHRISTY LEE ROGERS' VIDEO INSTALLATIONS IN LOAD GALLERY'S BARCELONA, SPAIN EXHIBITION

BODYSCAPES 17 July — 13 September 2025

https://load-gallery.com/exhibitions/group-show-bodyscapes

What does it mean to inhabit a place—or a body? Bodyscapes begins with this question, tracing how artists approach the body not as an object, but as an environment: a mutable site shaped by memory, material experience, and emotional charge; a lived terrain.

Through the eyes of ten female artists—one working as part of a duo—the body undergoes transformations, deformations, and mutations: challenging beauty standards, mirroring the endless loop of social media validation, defying gravity in search of freedom without ever leaving itself. Some bodies remain whole, quiet, grounded, insisting on their right simply to exist. In these works, the body is a sanctuary, a space for healing and connection with the inner self and nature. Finally, the digital bodies in the exhibition reflect the same embodied approach: they speak not of escape or disembodiment, but of inhabiting the virtual realm through the body—living with it, rather than attempting to leave it behind.

FOUR OF CHRISTY LEE ROGERS ‘MUSES OF AVATAR’ WORKS OFFICIALLY A PART OF THE ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES COLLECTION

The Academy Collection is the world’s largest film-related collection. It contains more than 52 million items - photographs, films, posters, animation cels, screenplays, costumes, props, and so much more. Items span cinema’s pre-history to the present, and include one-of-a-kind pieces only available thanks to the Academy’s global acquisition, preservation, and conservation efforts.

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THE TULIP FESTIVAL AND CHRISTY LEE ROGERS' SILK EXHIBIT IN MORGES, ON THE SWISS RIVIERA

The renowned Fête de la Tulipe will fill the Independence Gardens with color and creativity. This year’s theme, “Water,” resonates beautifully with the work of international visual artist Christy Lee Rogers, whose ethereal underwater photography captures the magic of light, movement, and fluidity. Her visual installations will be on display throughout the festival. Thank you – Festival International Classique & Lyrique and Ten Arts Paris.

March 28 to May 11, 2025