Roger Ferney-Cortés is a Colombian American interdisciplinary artist, architect, and educator based in New York City. His practice incorporates public art installation, assemblage and interactive sculpture informed by the dialogues and contradictions of the street with nuanced attention to our cities’ material, political and social realities.
Roger’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Wave Hill Glyndor Gallery, Governor’s Island Arts, and Kickstarter Arts Features in New York, NY, and at SCI-Arc Gallery and Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, CA, among other venues. He is a recipient of the Creative Capital x Skoll Creator Fund, SCI-Arc Graduate Design scholarship, and he is a Ryman Arts scholar alumnus.
Roger earned a BA in art history from the University of California at Santa Barbara and an MA in architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). He is a visiting assistant professor at Pratt Institute School of Architecture and a co-founding member of the Brooklyn-based design collaborative Stop 1 Projects.