Barbara Rogers has exhibited widely at major galleries and museums in San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Scottsdale, Germany, South Korea, and the United Arab Emirates. Her work is in major public and private collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, the Oakland Museum of Art, and the San Jose Museum of Art.

Rogers has been a faculty member or visiting artist at University of California, Berkeley; University of Chicago; San Jose State University; San Francisco Art Institute; Cooper Union; University of Washington, Seattle; University of California, Santa Barbara; Pusan National University, South Korea; and Zayed University in Adu Dhabi. In 2007, after numerous mentoring and teaching awards, Rogers retired from the University of Arizona, and is now Professor Emeritus of Painting and Drawing in the School of Art at University of Arizona in Tucson.