Dario Robleto

Dario Robleto (born 1972) is an American transdisciplinary artist, researcher, writer, teacher 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.

Dario Robleto
Born1972
EducationB.F.A. '97 The University of Texas at San Antonio
Occupationartist

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.,[2] he is co-organizing year 2 of the conference in 2017. 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] In February 2016, Robleto was coeditor of "Mobile Brain/Body Imaging and the Neuroscience of Art, Innovation and Creativity" in a special issue of the science journal Frontiers of Human Neuroscience.

Robleto 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, 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, IL. [5]

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 the Menil Collection (2014); Rice University (2013-14); and the Smithsonian Museum of American History (2011). He served as the 2016 Texas State Artist Laureate, he currently sits on the Advisory Board at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and is on the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art Teen Conference Advisory Committee.


Robleto has participated in many residencies including the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, in 2014; and Artpace, San Antonio, TX, in 2000. In 2017 he was chosen as an Artist in Residence at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.


His work has been profiled in numerous publications and media including Radiolab,[6] Krista Tippet's On Being,[7] the New York Times,[8] and the New York Times Science Section.[9]


Robleto’s diptych The First Time, The Heart (First Pulse, Flatline), 2017 was awarded a “Prix de Print” award. The Prix de Print is a bimonthly competition, in which a single work is selected by an outside juror to be the subject of a brief essay. Robleto’s diptych recalls the method of the first sphygmograph, a technology that made its first marks in soot using a human hair as a stylus, and the data it produced to suggest the life cycle, from the first pulse to the final flat line. Prix de Print

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2019

  • Unknown and Solitary Seas (Dreams and Emotions of the 19th Century), Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2018

  • Ancient Beacons Long for Notice, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX

2014

  • Setlists For a Setting Sun, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
  • The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX

2012

  • The Prelives of the Blues, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA

2011

  • Survival Does Not Lie in the Heavens, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
  • An Instinct Toward Life, Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO

2008

  • Alloy of Love, The Francis Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; traveled to the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA

2006

  • Chrysanthemum Anthems, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC; traveled to Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN

2003

  • Say Goodbye to Substance, Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019

  • In Plain Sight, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
  • The Sorcerer's Burden: Contemporary Art And The Anthropological Turn, The Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX
  • Jewels In The Concrete, Ruby City, San Antonio, TX
  • Cosmic Rhythm Vibrations, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC
  • Ghostly Traces: Memory and Mortality in Contemporary Photography, Vicki Myhren Gallery at University of Denver, Denver, CO
  • The Sheltering Sky, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
  • Fear and Wonder: Sublime Landscapes on Paper, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

2018

  • Under Construction: Collage from The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
  • People Get Ready: Building a Contemporary Collection, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
  • Texas, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  • Copy, Translate, Repeat: Contemporary Art from the Coleccion Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Hunter College, 205 Hudson Gallery, New York, NY

2017

  • Future Shock, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
  • Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
  • If You Remember, I'll Remember, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, North Western University, Evanston, IL
  • Prospect 4: The Lotus In Spite of the Swamp, New Orleans, LA

2016

  • The Future We Remember, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
  • Explode Every Day: An Inquiry into the Phenomena of Wonder, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
  • Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC

2015

  • 20 Years/20 Shows, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM

2014

  • DIRGE: Reflections on (Life and) Death, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH

2013

  • MORE LOVE ART, POLITICS, and SHARING Since the 1990s, Ackland Museum of Art, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC; traveled to Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, Nashville, TN

2012

  • More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN; traveled to SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM

2011

  • The Spectacular of Vernacular, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; traveled to Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ; Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

2010

  • The Record: Contemporary ART and VINYL, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC; traveled to Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

2008

  • The Old, Weird America, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; traveled to DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA; Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA

2004

  • 2004 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Publications: 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 [10]
  • 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 [11]
  • 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 [12]
  • 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 [13]

2018

  • Berry, Ian, Rebecca McNamara. Accelerate No.2. Saratoga Springs, NY. The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery [14]
  • Montgomery, Harper. Copy, Translate, Repeat: Contemporary Art from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. New York, NY. Hunter College Art Galleries [15]

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 [16]
  • 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 [17]

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 [18]
  • “Honky-Tonks and Hospices,” Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art (Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC, exhibition catalogue)[19]
  • 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 [20]

2014

  • White and Robleto. The Boundary of Life Is Quietly Crossed. (The Menil Collection, Houston TX, exhibition brochure).

2013

  • “If You Remember, I'll Remember,” Disembodied Portraits: Portrait Miniatures and Their Contemporary Relatives (The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, exhibition catalogue) [21]

2012

  • “Lunge For Love As If It Were Air,” More Love: ART, POLITICS and SHARING Since the 1990s (Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC, exhibition catalogue) [22]

2010

  • “Every Record, Everywhere, Is Playing Our Song Right Now,” The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl (Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC, exhibition catalogue) [23]

2001

  • “When You Cry, I Only Love You More,” ArtLies, Fall. pp 3-7 [24]

1999

  • “I Love Everything Rock ‘n’ Roll (Except the Music),” The National Association of Artists’ Organizations Field Guide 1999-2000 [25]

Videos

Selected Public collections

Selected Catalogues
  • Lash, Miranda, Trevor Schoonmaker. Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art. Exhibition catalogue. Durham, NC: Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (2016)
  • Markonish, Denise. Explode Everyday; An Inquiry into the Phenomena of Wonder. Exhibition catalogue. New York, NY: Prestel (2016)
  • Dirge: Reflections on [Life and Death], Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleaveland, OH (2014)
  • Art and Alchemy: The Mystery of Transformation, Munich, Germany (2014)
  • MORE LOVE: ART, POLITICS, and SHARING Since the 1990s. Chapel Hill, NC: Ackland Art Museum (2014)
  • 110 Favorites from the Collection, The University of Texas Press, Austin, TX (2013)
  • Disembodied: Portrait Miniatures and Their Contemporary Relatives, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (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, MN (2012)
  • An Instinct Toward Life, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (2011)
  • Spectacular of Vernacular, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (2011)
  • Dario Robleto: Survival Does Not Lie In The Heavens, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA (2011)
  • The Record: Contemporary ART and VINYL, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC (2010)
  • Alloy of Love, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY (2008)
  • The Old, Weird America: Folk Themes in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (2008)
  • Chrysanthemum Anthems, The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC (2007)

References
  1. "Three Appointed as Engineering Artists-in-Residence in Neuroaesthetics". UH Cullen College of Engineering. 2015-11-05. Retrieved 2016-01-22.
  2. "Schedule". Your Brain on Art Conference. 2015-09-14. 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. (2015). "Your Brain on Art: Emergent Cortical Dynamics During Aesthetic Experiences". Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 9: 626. 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. Block Museum Northwestern Artist at Large, https://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/artist-projects/dario-robleto.html.
  6. "Space".
  7. "DARIO ROBLETO: Sculptor of Memory".
  8. Holley, Joe (2003-04-13). "ART/ARCHITECTURE; Conceptual Artist As Mad Scientist". The New York Times.
  9. Cowen, Ron (2014-12-15). "The Echoes of Hearts Long Silenced". The New York Times.
  10. "Mobile Brain-Body Imaging and the Neuroscience of Art, Innovation and Creativity (Springer Series on Bio- and Neurosystems)", 2019.
  11. Brain Art: Brain-Computer Interfaces for Artistic Expression, May 2019.
  12. Designing for Empathy: Perspectives on the Museum Experience (American Alliance of Museums), May 15, 2019.
  13. At the Crossroads of Art and Science: Neuroaesthetics Begins to Come into Its Own, Leonardo, Volume 52, Issue 1, February 1.
  14. Dario Robleto on Sampling & Manipulating Objects into Art, Accelerate No.2.
  15. Copy, Translate, Repeat: Contemporary Art from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Hunter College Art Galleries.
  16. SciArt Initiative, STEAM 2017.
  17. Deployment of Mobile EEG Technology in an Art Museum Setting: Evaluation of Signal Quality and Usability, November 10, 2017.
  18. Dreams, as Faithful as Flames, presented at the 2016 International Conference on Mobile Brain-Body Imaging and The Neuroscience of Art, Innovation and Creativity in Cancun, Mexico.
  19. Honky-Tonks and Hospices, Southern Accent, 2016.
  20. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, November 18, 2015.
  21. If You Remember, I'll Remember, November 10, 2016.
  22. "Lunge For Love As If It Were Air", Originally published in exhibition catalog More Love: ART, POLITICS and SHARING Since the 1990s Ackland Art Museum.
  23. Every Record, Everywhere, Is Playing Our Song Right Now, Originally published in exhibition catalog The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.
  24. “When You Cry, I Only Love You More”, ArtLies Fall 2001.
  25. “I Love Everything Rock ‘n’ Roll (Except the Music),”, The National Association of Artists’ Organizations Field Guide 1999-2000.
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