Early life and education
Robleto was born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1972 and he received his BFA from theWork
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 theTeaching and lecturing
Robleto has been a visiting artist and lecturer at many universities and institutions including Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland. In 2013–2014 he served as the California College of the Arts Viola Frey Distinguished Visiting Professor, Oakland, California, and in 2014–2016 he was an artist in residence at Maryland Institute College of Art. Most recently he was appointed as the first Artist-at-Large at Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering and Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, Illinois.Awards, recognitions, and media
Awards have included the 2004 International Association of Art Critics Award for best exhibition in a commercial gallery at the national level. The 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 theSelected solo exhibitions
2023 * ''The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto'', The Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 2019 * ''Unknown and Solitary Seas (Dreams and Emotions of the 19th Century)'', Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2018 * ''Ancient Beacons Long for Notice'', McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas 2014 * ''Setlists For a Setting Sun,'' The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland * ''The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed,'' The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas 2012 * ''The Prelives of the Blues,'' New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana 2011 * ''Survival Does Not Lie in the Heavens'', Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa * ''An Instinct Toward Life'', Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Colorado 2008 * ''Alloy of Love,'' The Francis Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York; traveled to the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington 2006 * Chrysanthemum Anthems, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina; traveled to Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee 2003 * ''Say Goodbye to Substance'', Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York, New YorkSelected group exhibitions
2019 * ''In Plain Sight,'' Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, California * ''The Sorcerer's Burden: Contemporary Art And The Anthropological Turn,'' The Contemporary Austin, Austin, Texas * ''Jewels In The Concrete,'' Ruby City, San Antonio, Texas * ''Cosmic Rhythm Vibrations,'' Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina * ''Ghostly Traces: Memory and Mortality in Contemporary Photography,'' Vicki Myhren Gallery at University of Denver, Denver, Colorado * ''The Sheltering Sky,'' Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, California * ''Fear and Wonder: Sublime Landscapes on Paper,'' Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 2018 * ''Under Construction: Collage from The Mint Museum,'' Charlotte, North Carolina * ''People Get Ready: Building a Contemporary Collection,'' Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina * ''Texas,'' Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, California * ''Copy, Translate, Repeat: Contemporary Art from the Coleccion Patricia Phelps de Cisneros,'' Hunter College, 205 Hudson Gallery, New York, New York 2017 * ''Future Shock'', SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico * ''Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art'', Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky * ''If You Remember, I'll Remember'', Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, North Western University, Evanston, Illinois * ''Prospect 4: The Lotus In Spite of the Swamp'', New Orleans, Louisiana 2016 * ''The Future We Remember'', Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina * ''Explode Every Day: An Inquiry into the Phenomena of Wonder,'' MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts * ''Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art,'' Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 2015 * ''20 Years/20 Shows,'' SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico 2014 * ''DIRGE: Reflections on (Life and) Death,'' Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio 2013 * ''MORE LOVE ART, POLITICS, and SHARING Since the 1990s,'' Ackland Museum of Art, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; traveled to Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee 2012 * ''More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness,'' Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota; traveled to SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico 2011 * ''The Spectacular of Vernacular,'' Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; traveled to Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas; Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey; Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 2010 * ''The Record: Contemporary ART and VINYL'', Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; traveled to Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts; Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 2008 * ''The Old, Weird America'', Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas; traveled to DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts; Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington 2004 * ''2004 Biennial Exhibition'', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New YorkPublications: author and co-author
2019 * Contreras-Vidal J.L., Robleto, D., Jesus G. Cruz-Garza J.G., José M. Azorín J.M., Nam, C.S., "Mobile Brain-Body Imaging and the Neuroscience of Art, Innovation and Creativity (Springer Series on Bio- and Neurosystems)" Springer, Cham * Cruz-Garza J.G., Chatufale G., Robleto D., Contreras-Vidal J.L. "Your Brain on Art: A New Paradigm to Study Artistic Creativity Based on the ‘Exquisite Corpse’ Using Mobile Brain-Body Imaging." Brain Art. Nijholt A. (eds) Springer, Cham * ''The Heart's Knowledge Will Never Decay,'' Designing For Empathy: Perspectives On the Museum Experience, edited by. Elif M. Gokcigdem, 18-29. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019 * Contreras-Vidal, Jose L., Jeannie Kever, Dario Robleto, and James Rosengren. "At the Crossroads of Art and Science: Neuroaesthetics Begins to Come into Its Own," Leonardo, Volume 52, Issue 1, February 1 2018 * Berry, Ian, Rebecca McNamara. Accelerate No.2. Saratoga Springs, New York. The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery * Montgomery, Harper. Copy, Translate, Repeat: Contemporary Art from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. New York, New York. Hunter College Art Galleries 2017 * Contreras-Vidal, Jose Luis, Robleto, Dario. “Looking Under the Sacred Rock: How Collaborations between Scientists and Artists Can More Deeply Probe the Mysteries of Creativity,” SCIART Magazine, August * Contreras-Vidal, Kever, Robleto, and Rosengren, James. “At the Crossroads of Art and Science: Neuroaesthetics Begins to Come into Its Own,” Leonardo, June 20 * Cruz-Garza, Brantley, Nakagome, Kontson, Megjhani, Robleto, Contreras-Vidal. “Deployment of Mobile EEG Technology in an Art Museum Setting: Evaluation of Signal Quality and Usability,” Frontiers In Human Neuroscience, November 10 2016 * "Dreams, as Faithful as Flames.” Paper presented at International Conference on Mobile Brain-Body Imaging and The Neuroscience of Art, Innovation and Creativity, Cancun, Mexico, July * “Honky-Tonks and Hospices,” Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art (Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, exhibition catalogue) * Gramann, Contreras-Vidal, Makeig, Robleto, Brandt, Frazier and Schmuckli. “Mobile Brain/Body Imaging and the Neuroscience of Art, Innovation and Creativity,” Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, February 2015 * Kontson, Megjhani, Brantley, Cruz-Garza, Nakagome, Robleto, White, Civillico and Contreras-Vidal. “Your Brain on Art: Emergent Cortical Dynamics During Aesthetic Experiences,” Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, November 18 2014 * White and Robleto. The Boundary of Life Is Quietly Crossed. (The Menil Collection, Houston Texas, exhibition brochure). 2013 * “If You Remember, I'll Remember,” Disembodied Portraits: Portrait Miniatures and Their Contemporary Relatives (The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, exhibition catalogue) 2012 * “Lunge For Love As If It Were Air,” More Love: ART, POLITICS and SHARING Since the 1990s (Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, exhibition catalogue) 2010 * “Every Record, Everywhere, Is Playing Our Song Right Now,” The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl (Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, exhibition catalogue) 2001 * “When You Cry, I Only Love You More,” ArtLies, Fall. pp 3–7 1999 * “I Love Everything Rock ‘n’ Roll (Except the Music),” The National Association of Artists’ Organizations Field Guide 1999–2000Videos
Selected public collections
*Selected catalogues
* Lash, Miranda, Trevor Schoonmaker. Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art. Exhibition catalogue. Durham, North Carolina: Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (2016) * Markonish, Denise. Explode Everyday; An Inquiry into the Phenomena of Wonder. Exhibition catalogue. New York, New York: Prestel (2016) * Dirge: Reflections on ife and Death Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleaveland, Ohio (2014) * Art and Alchemy: The Mystery of Transformation, Munich, Germany (2014) * MORE LOVE: ART, POLITICS, and SHARING Since the 1990s. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Ackland Art Museum (2014) * 110 Favorites from the Collection, The University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas (2013) *Disembodied: Portrait Miniatures and Their Contemporary Relatives, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio (2013) * Dario Robleto: Prelives of the Blues, New Orleans Museum of Art (2012) * MO/RE/RE/AL? Art In The Age of Truthiness, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota (2012) * An Instinct Toward Life, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (2011) * Spectacular of Vernacular, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota (2011) * Dario Robleto: Survival Does Not Lie In The Heavens, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa (2011) * The Record: Contemporary ART and VINYL, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (2010) * Alloy of Love, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, New York (2008) * The Old, Weird America: Folk Themes in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (2008) * Chrysanthemum Anthems, The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina (2007)References
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