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Roger Herman was born in Germany, where he earned his MFA in Painting at the Academy of Art in Karlsruhe in 1976.

In 1977, he moved to California as part of a generation of artists who chose to settle on the West Coast of the U.S. In the late 1980's, he began teaching as a Professor in the Painting & Drawing department at UCLA, alongside other well-known Southern California artist/teachers such as Charles Ray, Chris Burden, Barbara Kruger, Mary Kelly, Lari Pittman, Catherine Opie, and Andrea Fraser. He retired from UCLA in 2018.

He co-founded artist-run gallery Black Dragon Society in the Chinatown area of Los Angeles, one of the earliest galleries on Chung King Road in Chinatown that helped establish a thriving art scene there in the late 1990's.

He has had solo exhibitions at galleries such as Richard Telles Fine Art, ACME., George Lawson Gallery, and Ace Gallery.