Ceramicist, painter, and printmaker Roger Herman was born in 1947 in Saarland, Germany. He received his MFA in 1976 from Akademie der Kuenste (Karlsruhe, Germany). In 1976 he moved to San Francisco on the DAAD German Academic Exchange Servce grant (DAAD), where he began garnering recognition for his large-format paintings and woodcuts, in a style that often combined conceptualism and abstract expressionism. In 1981, he relocated to Los Angeles. He was soon working under the auspices of the Gagosian Gallery, and began exhibiting in group and solo shows throughout the U.S. In 1985 he took a position on the painting faculty at University of California, Los Angeles, where, in 1990, he became a Professor of Fine Art.

Herman also received the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant in Painting, and has held extensive museum exhibitions in Los Angeles. He has participated in shows throughout the U.S. and internationally. He continues to live and work in Los Angeles.

Selected collections:

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
The Orange County Museum of Modern Art, Newport Beach, California
The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
The Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
The Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco, California
The Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
The Museo del Arte Contemporanea, Mexico City, Mexico
The Robert Rifkind Collection
The Gordon Hampton Collection
The Eli Broad Collection
The Dallas Price Collection
The Gruenewald Center at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
The Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco, California
The Albertina, Vienna, Austria
MOMA , New York