Roger Cummings is a social practice artist, cultural producer, and co-founder of Juxtaposition Arts (JXTA) — a 30-year social sculpture rooted in North Minneapolis. As Chief Cultural Producer, he operates at the intersection of hip-hop methodology, environmental design, and diasporic knowledge systems. 

His current practice centers ARKHIVE — a counter-archival methodology that treats community memory as civilizational infrastructure. Informed by theorists including Saidiya Hartman, Fred Moten, and Rasheedah Phillips, ARKHIVE positions the DJ-as-archivist and sampling-as-research as legitimate knowledge frameworks. 

Cummings’ public works — including Great River Landing, Rondo Commemorative Plaza, and the John Biggers Seed Project — merge sculpture, environmental design, and civic engagement. His material practice spans aerosol, steel, tile, fabric, and found objects; his conceptual practice spans continents. 

A Loeb Fellow at Harvard GSD (2009), he is currently a Visiting Artist/Researcher at MAC USP in São Paulo (2026).