Chris M Rodgers is a ceramic artist who makes sculpture and installation. He pairs clay with materials such as glaze, silver leaf, mirror, steel, unfired clay, and handmade brick. He holds a Bachelor of Art from West Virginia State University and an MFA from the University of Arkansas. He also completed post-baccalaureate study in ceramics at Kansas State University and graduate studies at Tainan National University of the Arts in Taiwan.

Rodgers has been a resident artist at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia. He has also held residencies and work-study positions at Casa Lü in Mexico City, Ox-Bow School of Art, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, c.r.e.t.a. Rome, Penland School of Craft, and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. His work has been shown across the U.S. and abroad, with solo and two-person exhibitions at The Clay Studio, GoggleWorks Center for the Arts, Headstone Gallery, Globe Dye Works, and Casa Lü. He has also shown at several NCECA conferences and in Jingdezhen, China. In 2025 he created Illuminated by the Moon, an outdoor public installation at Taoxichuan in Wangou, China.

His honors include the James Renwick Alliance Chrysalis Award of Excellence, two Windgate Fellowships from The Clay Studio, and the Governor’s Purchase Award at the West Virginia Juried Exhibition.