Dario Robleto

Dario Robleto
Born 1972
Residence Houston, TX
Occupation artist
Home town San Antonio, TX

Dario Robleto (born 1972) is an American transdisciplinary artist, storyteller, and “citizen-scientist”. His research-driven practice results in intricately handcrafted objects that reflect his exploration of music, popular culture, science, war, and American history. He is currently represented by Inman Gallery in Houston, Praz-Delavallade in Paris, and ACME. in Los Angeles.

Early Life and Education

Robleto was born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1972 and he received his BFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 1997.

Work

Robleto uses unexpected materials such as melted vinyl records, dinosaur bones, meteorites, glass produced by atomic explosions, lost heartbeat recordings from the 19th century, and he transforms these artifacts from the vast inventory of humanity’s collective past into delicately layered objects that are sincere and personal meditations on love, death, eroding memory, and healing.

A self-described “materialist poet,” Robleto emphasizes the relationship between language and materials as a crucial component to his approach. “Liner notes,” usually in the form of a wall label, accompany many of the works, poetically detailing the sources embedded therein. A great appreciator of DJ culture, and a former DJ himself, Robleto considers his work a mixtape or “sampling” of humanity; he remixes forgotten stories and materials and reconstructs them into new artistic forms as a lens to view the future through the past.

Increasingly, Robleto has been participating in activities outside the art world. In 2015 he was appointed Artist in Residence in Neuroaesthetics at the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering,[1] and he was invited to co-organize the 2016 International Conference on Mobile Brain-Body Imaging and the Neuroscience of Art, Innovation, and Creativity, scheduled to take place in July 2016.[2] In 2015 Robleto and Contreras-Vidal coauthored a scholarly paper titled "Your Brain on Art: Emergent Cortical Dynamics During Aesthetic Experiences”. The study considered “the brain response to conceptual art [as] studied with mobile electroencephalography (EEG) to examine the neural basis of aesthetic experiences.”[3]

Robleto has also participated in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. He is currently one of six artists in the Artists-in-Residence program at the prestigious SETI Institute[4] in Mountain View, CA, and in 2015 he joined a distinguished team of scientists as the artistic consultant on the Breakthrough Initiatives, which is the most extensive effort to find intelligent life beyond Earth to date. Specifically, Robleto will work on the Breakthrough Message project—a multi-national effort that aims to encourage intellectual and technical debate about how and what to communicate if the current search for intelligent beings beyond Earth is successful.

Teaching and Lecturing

Robleto has been a visiting artist and lecturer at many universities and institutions including Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; and the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD. In 2013-2014 he served as the California College of the Arts Viola Frey Distinguished Visiting Professor, Oakland, CA.

Awards and Recognitions

Awards have included the 2004 International Association of Art Critics Award for best exhibition in a commercial gallery at the national level. He exhibition was Roses in the Hospital / Men Are The New Women at Inman Gallery in 2003. In 2007 he was a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant and in 2009 he was a recipient of the USA Rasmuson Fellowship. Robleto has been a research fellow and resident at institutions such as the Menil Collection (2014); Rice University (2013-14); and the Smithsonian Museum of American History (2011). He was recently appointed as the 2016 Texas State Artist Laureate, and he currently sits on the Board of Directors of Artpace.[5]

Robleto has participated in many residencies including the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, in 2014; and Artpace, San Antonio, TX, in 2004.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2014

2012

2011

2008

2006

2003

Selected Group Exhibitions

2016

2013

2010

2004

Selected Public collections

Selected Catalogues

References

  1. ↑ "Three Appointed as Engineering Artists-in-Residence in Neuroaesthetics". UH Cullen College of Engineering. Retrieved 2016-01-22.
  2. ↑ "Schedule". Your Brain on Art Conference. Retrieved 2016-01-21.
  3. ↑ Kontson, Kimberly L.; Megjhani, Murad; Brantley, Justin A.; Cruz-Garza, Jesus G.; Nakagome, Sho; Robleto, Dario; White, Michelle; Civillico, Eugene; Contreras-Vidal, Jose L. "Your Brain on Art: Emergent Cortical Dynamics During Aesthetic Experiences". Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 9. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2015.00626. PMC 4649259. PMID 26635579.
  4. ↑ "SETI AIR: The SETI Institute’s Artists in Residence Program | SETI Institute". www.seti.org. Retrieved 2016-01-21.
  5. ↑ "Our Board of Directors » Artpace". www.artpace.org. Retrieved 2016-01-07.

External links

  1. ↑ "Conversation with Ann Druyan and Dario Robleto on The Golden Record". Vimeo. Retrieved 2016-01-22.
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