Rogoff obtained her PhD degree from the Courtald Institute of Art in 1987.
Between 1989 and 1997 Rogoff taught at UC Davis, where she merged the graduate programs in Art and Critical Theory under the department of Visual Culture.
[7] Between 2005 and 2006 Rogoff was part of the curatorial team of the A.C.A.D.E.M.Y project which consisted of a series of exhibitions, projects and events at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven.
[8] In 2011, together with Stefano Harney, Adrian Heathfield, Massimiliano Mollona, Louis Moreno and Nora Sternfeld she founded the curatorial and research collective freethought.
She has authored one book over 20 years ago: Rogoff has contributed to various periodicals such as Art Journal,[15] e-flux,[16] and Third Text.