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MAR

2024

Dario Robleto Begins Residency at the National Gallery of Art's Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts

This residency is in support of my film, Until We Are Forged: Hymns for the Elements. Recently commissioned by the National Gallery of Art, the film explores the life of the 16th-century artist and naturalist Joris Hoefnagel and the creation of his most important work, The Four Elements. The film accompanies the exhibition Little Beasts: Joris Hoefnagel, Jan van Kassel, and the Dawn of Natural History (1570–1700) and represents the first collaboration between the National Gallery and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

FEB

2024

Pérez Art Museum Miami Presents Spirit in the Land

Dynamic Group Exhibition Explores the Interconnection Between Cultural Traditions and Urgent Ecological Concerns

NOV

2023

Film Screening and Conversation: Artist Dario Robleto with Jennifer Roberts at the Harvard Art Museums

Join us for a screening of artist Dario Robleto’s film The Aorta of an Archivist, followed by a conversation between Robleto and art historian Jennifer Roberts, in conjunction with the exhibition Seeing in Art and Medicine, on view from September 2 to December 30, 2023.

SEP

2023

Group exhibition, Seeing in Art and Medicine, opens at the Harvard Art Museum

This exhibition and the medical humanities program on which it is based are part of the Harvard Art Museums’ broader commitment to interdisciplinary learning. Now in its sixth year, the Seeing in Art and Medical Imaging program welcomes a cohort of nuclear medicine and radiology residents from Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital to explore questions about human relationships, emotions, beliefs, and opinions through art.

JUN

2023

Artist Dario Robleto Culminates Multiyear Exploration of NASA’s Golden Record with New Film and Solo Exhibition Debuting at the Carter in 2024

Robleto’s film is accompanied by related sculptures and works on paper that reflect the artist’s cross-disciplinary investigation of records of human existence.

JUN

2023

Artist Talk Back: “The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto”

Gallery talk led by artist Dario Robleto and Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts and exhibition curator.

MAY

2023

The Future Heart in Poetry and Medicine: Dario Robleto, Doris Taylor, Adrian Matejka

Who can claim knowledge of the human heart? Can poetry, art, and medicine each contribute to our understanding of this historically and biologically complex organ? Inspired by astonishing advances in biomedical engineering, this cross-disciplinary conversation contemplates the possibility of a “future heart” distinct from anything we’ve known before.

MAY

2023

Dario Robleto interviewed on podcast Strange Customs with Sasha Sagan

The season 1 finale of Strange Customs brings Sasha Sagan to an extraordinary Chicago exhibition for a conversation with artist Dario Robleto. Situated at the intersection of art and science, the show also has its inspiration and roots in Sasha’s own family. We’ll also hear from Harvard art historian Dr. Jennifer Roberts about the ways art and science share a mission to extend our vision beyond the horizon.

MAY

2023

The Artist and the Book: Dario Robleto in Conversation with Mimi Swartz

In this conversation, artist Dario Robleto and writer Mimi Swartz discuss how books, research, and libraries are protagonists in the art world today. The talk explores what books and research mean for contemporary practitioners.

MAY

2023

Group exhibition, Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management, opens at Artists Space

The exhibition, which includes a series of performances and film screenings, challenges the dominant modern conception of time as objective, divisible, and linear. The artworks explore how time is represented, lived, and contested in the catastrophic present.

APR

2023

Group exhibition, Together, opens at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts

The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (AMFA) announces Together, a celebratory inaugural exhibition offering kaleidoscopic arrangements of family, friends, community, and our connection to the natural world. Curated by AMFA, and featuring loans and several new acquisitions, Together will be on view in one of the Harriet and Warren Stephens Galleries from the museum’s grand opening on April 22, 2023, through September 10, 2023.

APR

2023

At the Limits of Life and Empathy: Dario Robleto and Malcolm MacIver

Northwestern Professor of Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering Malcolm MacIver researches the relationship between sense perception, cognition, and evolution. This dialogue between the scientist and Dario Robleto will explore how art and science both contemplate—and seek to overcome—the physical and temporal limits of human life. The discussion will touch on the question of how art might provide a model for long-term thinking, especially in times of societal and ecological transformation.

MAR

2023

Group exhibition: Rituals of Devotion opens at the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts

Rituals of Devotion features sculpture, painting, and photography organized to celebrate the rich narratives that surround ritual practice in its many forms. A journey through the sacred, otherworldly, and mundane, the exhibition explores the performance of ritual as a tool for transformation and empathy.

MAR

2023

Exhibition Conversation: Ann Druyan, The Golden Record, and the Memory of Our Hearts

What do we owe to the memory of each other’s hearts? From her work in the 1970s as the Creative Director for NASA’s Voyager Interstellar Message Project to her current role as writer and producer of the beloved television series Cosmos, Ann Druyan has devoted her life to expanding the horizons of human empathy and communication. In insisting that the thresholds of cosmic exploration must be approached with sincerity, humility, and generosity, she has had a deep influence on Dario Robleto’s work throughout his career. Druyan and Robleto will be joined in conversation with The Heart’s Knowledge catalogue contributor Jennifer Roberts, Professor of the Humanities at Harvard.

FEB

2023

Interstellar Aesthetics: Acts of Translation in Art and Science

February 22, 2023, 6:00-7:30 PM, The Block Museum of Art
In this dialogue on “interstellar aesthetics,” artist Dario Robleto will join Elizabeth Kessler, exhibition catalogue contributor and Lecturer in American Studies, Stanford University, and Shane Larson, Northwestern Research Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Associate Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), to consider how astronomers and artists translate data into images, and how these translations shape the meaning of the cosmos in the public imagination.

FEB

2023

Group exhibition: Spirit in the Land opens at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

Spirit in the Land is a contemporary art exhibition that examines today’s urgent ecological concerns from a cultural perspective, demonstrating how intricately our identities and natural environments are intertwined.

FEB

2023

Science, Art, and the Search for Meaning: Opening Conversation with Dario Robleto

February 4, 2023, 2:00 PM-3:30 PM.
In this opening conversation to celebrate Dario Robleto's 10-year survey exhibition, The Heart's Knowledge, the artist will be joined by Jennifer Roberts, Harvard Professor of the Humanities, Lucianne Walkowicz, astronomer and co-founder of the JustSpace Alliance, and Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts and curator of the exhibition. The conversation will reflect on questions that reach across boundaries and examine the shared pursuit that binds artists and scientists.

FEB

2023

Dario Robleto's 10-year career survey exhibition opens at the Block Museum of Art

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration.

FEB

2023

Career survey publication: The Heart's Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

Published by The Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University and distributed by ARTBOOK-DAP, the book reflects a decade of profound creative exploration and proposes new models for understanding research-based creative practice in visual culture studies. Edited by Michael Metzger with contributions by Robert M. Brain, Daniel K. L. Chua, Patrick Feaster, Stefan Helmreich, Elizabeth A. Kessler, Julius B. Lucks, Michael Metzger, Elizabeth Kathleen Mitchell, Alexander Rehding, Jennifer L. Roberts, Dario Robleto, and Claire Isabel Webb. Produced by Lucia | Marquand, Seattle.

NOV

2022

Dario Robleto to lecture in Wesleyan College's lecture series: The Art of Empathy

Is there a limit to the human capacity to empathize? What forces—historically, politically, socially, even physically in terms of the laws of the natural world—might set untraversable boundary lines to this most hopeful of human behaviors? In this lecture, artist Dario Robleto will discuss how the most challenging obstacles to empathy can serve as a source of invention and creativity to its evolution.

NOV

2022

Printing with Fire: Bethany Collins and Dario Robleto in Conversation with Jennifer L. Roberts at Print Center New York

Both Bethany Collins and Dario Robleto use fire in the printing process to convey the complexities of sound as a carrier of historical memory. With lasers and flames, singes and soot, each explores the tension between loss and preservation in printed sound. Join Collins, Robleto, and Jennifer L. Roberts for a discussion of the paradoxes of ephemerality in early sound recording, the unstable links between sonic and lyric memory, and the fragile cohesion of communal sensibility in music.

OCT

2022

Group exhibition, Visual Record: The Materiality of Sound in Print, opens at Print Center New York

Visual Record: The Materiality of Sound in Print investigates how artists since the 1970s have employed print-based processes to examine the relationship between sound and its visual representation.

OCT

2022

Group exhibition, Parallax: Framing the Cosmos, opens at the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery

The exhibition offers interdisciplinary insights into and meditations on the particular and the universal, the past and the future, the eternal and the mutable, the intimate and the infinite, encouraging us to consider our own personal, national, emotional, and creative selves in the context of a greater universe.

SEP

2022

Group exhibition, Tangible/Nothing, opens at Ruby City

This new installation features approximately 50 works by national and international artists as well as those with San Antonio and Texas ties, including recent acquisitions on view for the first time. Tangible/Nothing explores how the invisible or the seemingly mundane can reveal great meaning.

APR

2022

The Poetry of Prisms: Awe as a Form of Knowledge in Art and Science: Artist Lecture at Middlebury

Grieving the erasure of wonder and mystery at the hands of science, John Keats claimed in 1817 that Isaac Newton had “destroyed all the poetry of the rainbow, by reducing it to a prism.” By the 20th-century, these misgivings formed a model in which art and science were mutually constituted through opposition. Artist Dario Robleto argues why we need both great traditions, understood through a collaborative experience of awe, to build a more complete and objective understanding of the world.

APR

2022

Film Screening: The Aorta of an Archivist at the Free State Festival

Dario Robleto's film, The Aorta of an Archivist, will headline the Free State Festival in Lawrence, Kansas. Written, researched, and directed by Robleto, The Aorta of an Archivist examines the crossover of historical themes related to the cosmos and the human body, including the recordings of brain waves and heartbeats. The high-definition video is accompanied by an original score, and was commissioned by the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, Kansas.

MAR

2022

Group exhibition, What is Left Unspoken, Love, opens at the High Museum

Is love intrinsic, or is it a habit? What is the difference between love and friendship? What is the relationship of love to truth, freedom, and justice? These are just some of the questions to be explored in What Is Left Unspoken, Love, featuring contemporary artworks from 1987 to 2021 that address the different ways the most important thing in life—love—is expressed.

MAR

2022

Dario Robleto, Artist in Residence at UC Berkeley's Arts Research Center in conversation with director Julia Bryan-Wilson

Artist Talk with Dario Robleto
ARC Spring 22 Artist in Residence: in conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson
Tuesday, March 15th 2022
4:00 – 5:30pm PST

MAR

2022

Film Screening and Public Lecture at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Art, Washington University

Written, researched and directed by Dario Robleto, this high definition video, The Aorta of an Archivist, is accompanied by an original score and examines the crossover of historical themes related to the cosmos and the human body, including the recordings of brain waves and heartbeats. This work was commissioned by the Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS. Runtime 53 minutes.
Presented in collaboration with Laumeier Sculpture Park

FEB

2022

Visiting artist lecture at the University of Florida

Tuesday, February 22, 2022 6:15pm to 7:45pm

FEB

2022

Manif d'art 10: Quebec City Biennial open in Quebec, Canada

The theme of Manif d'art 10 is inspired by Magic Realism, an artistic movement seeking the spontaneous manifestation of seemingly magical, supernatural or irrational elements that arise in the realm of reality. The biennial will be an opportunity to explore artistic practices making use of the trompe-l’oeil, strategies of misdirection and sleight of hand as vehicles.

FEB

2022

Group exhibition, Pressing Innovation: Printing Fine Art in the Upper Midwest, opens at the Chazen Museum of Art

Pressing Innovation explores the history and work of fine-art printing presses in the Upper Midwest, focusing on each press’s distinct mission and contribution to printmaking in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

FEB

2022

Upcoming Group Exhibition, Salutary Sculpture, at the Laumeier Sculpture Park, Aronson Fine Arts Center

It is well established that art has salutary effects, both for makers and for their viewers, audiences, and participants. The healing of mind, body, and spirit permeates this exhibition, not only as subject matter, but as actual practice. Salutary Sculpture features a selection of eight artists who use sculpture, photography, video, drawings, and performance to explore art’s capacity as a therapeutic tool for adaptation, recovery, and rehabilitation. Co-Curated By Laumeier Executive Director Lauren Ross And Curator Dana Turkovic.

JAN

2022

Radical Fiber: A Symposium on Art and Science: Dario Robleto in Conversation with Craft Curator and Scholar Elissa Auther

Radical Fiber: A Symposium on Art and Science will explore the intersections of textiles with sustainability, digital technology, mathematics, and more. The symposium is being held in conjunction with the exhibition Radical Fiber: Threads Connecting Art and Science, which opens January 29, 2022, and explores the ways in which fiber-based practice has and continues to influence scientific theory, pedagogy, and innovation. Curated by Rebecca McNamara.

OCT

2021

Group exhibition, In Search of the Miraculous open at the FLAG Art Foundation

Curated by Jonathan Rider, this group exhibition explores belief, believability, and the suspension of disbelief in the form of art objects, talismans, multiples, doppelgängers, spiritual(ish) artifacts, and tales of impossibility. The show’s title and concept nods to Bas Jan Ader’s three-part final performance In Search of the Miraculous (titled after P. D. Ouspensky’s 1949 treatise on eastern philosophy of the same name) during which Ader is presumed to have disappeared while attempting a trans-Atlantic crossing in a tiny sailboat—a leap of faith for both the artist and those who believe his story.

OCT

2021

Group Exhibition, Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art opens at Speed Museum of Art, Louisville, KY

Supernatural America examines the artwork that has shaped our collective imagination of the supernatural and paranormal and asks why America is haunted. This exhibition explores the numerous ways artists in the U.S. made sense of their own experiences of the paranormal and supernatural, and in doing so developed a rich visual culture of the intangible.

OCT

2021

Living with Death: How Artists, Historians and Museums Create Meaning in a Time of Loss: Dario Robleto in Conversation with Ellery Foutch

In this shared conversation, artist Dario Robleto and art historian Ellery Foutch will discuss their responses to the tragedies of September 11, 2001 and our current pandemic moment, sharing what their research and practices have revealed about the historical past and future paths of what we might call a "history of the creative response to loss."

JUN

2021

Making Sound: Conversation with Folayemi Wilson, Ashon Crawley, Barbara McBane, Dario Robleto

This conversation engages ideas around crafting and responding to sound as a material, as somatic listening, of audial embodiment and ways of being, and of seeing with our inner ear. Each of the of invited respondents will participate in a conversation about how sound is present in their work and used in their creative or other practices.

MAY

2021

Jazz and the Gospel: Panel discussion at Bridge Projects

From jazz musicians such as Charles Mingus and John Coltrane, the music of the Black church has influenced many musicians in the genre. Artists Ashon T. Crawley, Dario Robleto, Norman Teague, Lava Thomas, and Fo Wilson will discuss this influence in their practice in this panel discussion.

APR

2021

Tending to the Body: Panel discussion with Janine Antoni, Ingrid Bachmann, John Rich, and Dario Robleto

This year’s IARI inquiry, “Tending to the Body” was prompted by years of research led by the Spencer Museum’s Curator for Global Indigenous Art Cassandra Mesick Braun and acts as a virtual companion to the exhibition Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body.

APR

2021

Group exhibition, Otherwise/Revival open at Bridge Projects

Otherwise/Revival is a group exhibition that visualizes the impact of the historic Black church— specifically the Black Pentecostal movement—on contemporary artists.

APR

2021

Northwestern Engineering's Dean's Seminar Series presents: Dario Robleto

Artist-at-Large Dario Robleto will share the deep connections between art and science through his creative research methods, narrative storytelling and exploration of material science and sculpture.

APR

2021

BODY MATTERS A CONVERSATION WITH POET HUASCAR MEDINA AND ARTIST DARIO ROBLETO

Moderated by Curator Cassandra Mesick Braun, this is the third in a series of conversations with artists in the exhibition "Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body." In celebration of National Poetry Month, this session features artist Dario Robleto and Kansas Poet Laureate Huascar Medina and focuses on interpretations of the human heartbeat and how scientists and artists record, send, receive, reconfigure, and share data.

APR

2021

Dario Robleto: The Aorta of an Archivist: Lecture at the Spencer Museum of Art

In conjunction with the exhibition "Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body," the Spencer Museum of Art commissioned Houston-based artist Dario Robleto to create a new work of art. "The Aorta of an Archivist" is an immersive film and sound installation that connects Robleto’s research on the cosmos, the human heart, and the history of recording our bodies. In this talk, Robleto takes us through his research and process, to the boundaries of outer and inner space, and across thresholds once believed impassable to question where our observational limits lie.

FEB

2021

Debut of new film, The Aorta of an Archivist, at the Spencer Museum of Art

In conjunction with the exhibition Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body, the Spencer Museum of Art commissioned Houston-based transdisciplinary artist Dario Robleto to create a new work of art: The Aorta of an Archivist. This immersive sound and video installation connects Robleto’s deep and longstanding research on the cosmos, the human heart, and the history of recording.

FEB

2021

Group exhibition, Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body, at the Spencer Museum of Art

This exhibition explores the many ways that artists, scientists, healers, and others have come to understand the body through time and across cultural contexts through three interrelated themes.

OCT

2020

Lecture at Smithsonian American Art Museum: The Curious Confront Eternity

Join Dario Robleto for the fourth lecture in a six-part series that examines the profound impact of Alexander von Humboldt, a renowned Prussian naturalist and explorer and one of the most influential figures of the nineteenth century.

FEB

2020

Indira Allegra and Dario Robleto in Conversation at the Museum of Art and Design

The 2019 winner of the Museum’s Burke Prize, Indira Allegra returns to the Museum of Arts and Design for an interactive conversation with her friend and former teacher, artist Dario Robleto. Delving into Allegra’s investigation and reimagination of memorial, the pair will diverge from the traditional panel discussion format and invite the audience to contribute to the conversation. Artists and audience will investigate what memorial feels like, the scale on which it exists, and how remembrance functions through practices of performance, sculpture, and installation.

FEB

2020

Dario Robleto is the keynote speaker with Dr. Doris Taylor at II+C 2020 Symposium: Stem Cell Therapies in 2020: Healing, Hope, or Hype

The fourth annual II+C Symposium, which will be held on February 6-7 at the Mississippi University for Women, will focus on stem cell therapies and their place in modern medicine. Internationally known researchers and medical professionals will discuss their work and the latest developments.

JAN

2020

Stars Down to Earth: Mary Mattingly and Dario Robleto: Exhibition Opening and Artist Talk with Dario Robleto

From wonders of the cosmos to urgent questions around habitable futures on earth, this exhibition brings together the scientific inquiries and complex visual systems of these two artists, who, through their art, engage with the world as citizen scientists and ethicists. Dario Robleto will present a lecture titled, Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas.

JAN

2020

Group exhibition, An Infinite and Omnivorous Sky opens at University Galleries at Illinois St.

An Infinite and Omnivorous Sky, a group exhibition about the mysteries and militarization of outer space, features twenty-nine works by artists that critically engage in poetic, scientific, and geopolitical views of the cosmos. The exhibition is curated by University Galleries’ Director and Chief Curator Kendra Paitz. An exhibition catalog is forthcoming in Summer 2020.

DEC

2019

Dario Robleto and anthropologist Marina Peterson in Conversation

Artist Dario Robleto discusses his newly commissioned video, The Boundary of Life Is Quietly Crossed, on view in the exhibition The Sorcerer’s Burden: Contemporary Art and the Anthropological Turn, with anthropologist Marina Peterson. Their cross-disciplinary conversation will span sonic ethnography, audio archaeology, and the last beating heart in the cosmos.
7:00 pm at Jones Center on Congress Avenue

NOV

2019

New Book Published: Mobile Brain-Body Imaging and the Neuroscience of Art, Innovation and Creativity

Mobile Brain–Body Imaging and the Neuroscience of Art, Innovation and Creativity is a trans-disciplinary, collective, multimedia collaboration that critically uncovers the challenges and opportunities for transformational and innovative research and performance at the nexus of art, science and engineering.
Co-edited and authored by Dario Robleto (Springer Series on Bio- and Neurosystems)

NOV

2019

Dario Robleto to speak at Duke University: Arpeggio: Spaces of Translation

Arpeggio is an annual graduate-student organized interdisciplinary conference of AAHVS department. This year, with the overarching theme of "Spaces of Translation," Arpeggio invites scholars and students to explore the relationship between the original and reinterpreted, the authors and translators, and the artists and art historians from diverse regions such as China, France, Mexico, and the United States. Three speakers - Amara Solari (Penn State University Professor, Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin American Art), Kristel Smentek (MIT Professor, Eighteenth-century European art and Asian-European Cultural Interaction), Dario Robleto (Contemporary artist based in Houston, TX interested in the intersection between art and science) - will give valuable talks and a panel discussion will follow.

NOV

2019

Exploring Ethics Across Fields: New Essay Published in Northwestern Engineering

Artist-at-Large Dario Robleto makes the case for multidisciplinary collaboration to address critical social and ethical issues.

NOV

2019

Beating the Limits: New Heart, New Start

In conjunction with the exhibition Unknown and Solitary Seas: Dreams and Emotions of the 19th Century at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
From the earliest heartbeat to the end of your days, the heart carries life and love. What happens when the heart breaks, no longer able to support life? Heart transplantation is the miracle of sharing life. Join Elizabeth Blume, a pediatric heart surgeon, to learn about the technology and science of pediatric heart transplantation and the physician’s perspective of the joys, ethics, and heartbreak of donating life.
Wednesday, November 20, Noon
Sheer Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street

NOV

2019

Turbulent Tremors: Sounding the Heart and Emotions in 19th-Century Song

In conjunction with the exhibition: Unknown and Solitary Seas: Dreams and Emotions of the 19th Century at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
Harvard College Opera performs a recital of romantic songs from the 19th century about the heart, emotions, and the sea.

NOV

2019

Harvard Art Study Center Seminar: Dario Robleto: Witnessing Sound

In this seminar, presented in conjunction with the exhibition Winslow Homer: Eyewitness, Robleto will explore the theme of “witnessing” as it relates to auditory and material forms of war testimony. He will present his research on a rare and little-known audio recording made during a battle in Lille, France, in 1918, toward the end of World War I. It is the first live audio recording ever made on a battlefield.

NOV

2019

Cardiophonie: Musical Performance for Solo Tuba

In conjunction with the exhibition: Unknown and Solitary Seas: Dreams and Emotions of the 19th Century at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
The centerpiece of the program is an improvisation inspired by the composer Heinz Holliger’s classic 1971 work Cardiophonie for solo tuba and electronics, in which the instrumentalist Max Murray will perform alongside the amplified sonority of his own heartbeat. This will be followed by a musical response to the exhibition's conceptual engagement with waveforms.
Wednesday, November 6, 3:30 PM
Byerly Library, Byerly Hall, 8 Garden Street

NOV

2019

The Once and Future Heart, Lecture at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University

Join us for a conversation between the artist Dario Robleto, whose exhibition at the Radcliffe Institute rethinks the deep history of cardiological recording, and Doris A. Taylor, a scientist whose work toward regenerative transplantation is reshaping the metaphorical—as well as the medical—prospects of the human heart.

NOV

2019

New solo exhibition, Unknown and Solitary Seas (Dream and Emotions of the 19th Century), opens on November 4th at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University

Organized and curated by Jennifer L. Roberts, the exhibition examines the 19th-century origins of the pulse wave as a graphic expression of internal life. Opening reception and discussion on November 4th at 5:00 pm.

OCT

2019

Art Papers Live: Dario Robleto

In this public conversation, Dario Robleto and Art Papers editor + artistic director Sarah Higgins will address questions about what art can bring to the most speculative spaces of science and technology. The talk is on October 10 at 7:00 at Georgia State University, Centennial Hall Auditorium.

OCT

2019

Dario Robleto visits Mills College as part of its Graduate Lecture series

Robleto will lecture at the Mills College Art Museum in conjunction with the group show IN PLAIN SIGHT, October 2 at 7:00 PM. The exhibition brings together artists whose work points to the invisible systems and unknowable mysteries that shape and define our lives.

SEP

2019

Group exhibition, Cosmic Rhythm Vibrations, opens September 28th at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

This exhibition highlights works from the Nasher Museum collection that engage visual and musical rhythm.

SEP

2019

Group exhibition, In Plain Sight, opens September 18th at Mills College, Oakland, CA

A seeming paradox, the phrase “hiding in plain sight” contains elements of both obscuring and exposing, and it implies that secrets, while visible, may only be noticed or revealed upon close inspection. Through strategies of layering, embedding materials, replacing one material for another, and giving concrete form to invisible phenomena, the artists in the exhibition reference history and art history, pop culture, science, and personal identity.

SEP

2019

Group exhibition, The Sorcerer's Burden: Contemporary Art and the Anthropological Turn opens September 14 at The Contemporary Austin

The complex relationship between contemporary art and anthropology shapes the subject of The Sorcerer’s Burden: Contemporary Art and the Anthropological Turn, an eleven-artist exhibition across both museum sites.

JUL

2019

Group exhibition, Jewels in the Concrete, opens October 13 at Ruby City, San Antonio, TX

The inaugural exhibition at Linda Pace's new museum, Ruby City, including works by Pace, Issac Julien, Andrea Bowers, and Marilyn Minter.

JUL

2019

Co-authored paper, "Your Brain on Art: A New Paradigm to Study Artistic Creativity Based on the ‘Exquisite Corpse’ Using Mobile Brain-Body Imaging," included in new publication: Brain Art: Brain Computer Interfaces For Artistic Expression

This is the first book on brain-computer interfaces (BCI) that aims to explain how these BCI interfaces can be used for artistic goals. The chapters in this book have been written by researchers in human-computer interaction, brain-computer interaction, neuroscience, psychology, and social sciences, often in cooperation with artists using BCI in their work.

JUN

2019

Dario Robleto is co-organizer and panel moderator at the 19th International Graphonomics Conference and Your Brain on Art, Innovation and Creativity in Cancun, Mexico

The Conference theme is “Graphonomics and Your Brain on Art, Creativity, and Innovation” and will be a single track international forum for discussion on recent advances at the intersection of the creative arts, neuroscience, engineering, media, technology, industry, education, design, forensics, and medicine.

MAY

2019

Dario Robleto contributes chapter to new publication: Designing For Empathy: Perspectives On the Museum Experience

Designing for Empathy is a volume of twenty-three essays contributed by multidisciplinary experts, collectively exploring the state of empathy for its design elements that might lead to positive behavior change and a paradigm shift towards unifying, compassionate worldviews and actions.

MAY

2019

Dario Robleto to participate in 6th International Mammalian Synthetic Biology Workshop

The workshop will provide a forum for the exposition of the latest developments in the field and discussions of how experts from related fields can benefit from and contribute to mammalian synthetic biology.

MAY

2019

Panel Discussion: Exploring Ethics Across Art, Humanities, and Science

In this program bridging disciplinary divides, artist Dario Robleto; synthetic biologists Josh Leonard, Julius Lucks, and Danielle Tullman-Ercek; and medical anthropologist Megan Crowley-Matoka will share specific dilemmas they’ve encountered in their own work—and discuss commonalities and differences that could lead to new ways of addressing contemporary ethical concerns.

MAY

2019

Dario Robleto in solo booth at Frieze, New York

Opening May 2nd, Inman Gallery will present the work of Dario Robleto in the curated section of fair, Diálogos

FEB

2019

Dario Robleto in solo booth at ADAA The Art Show

Opening Thursday, February 28th Inman Gallery will present the work of Dario Robleto in a solo booth.

FEB

2019

At the Crossroads of Art and Science: Neuroaesthetics Begins to Come into Its Own

At the Crossroads of Art and Science: Neuroaesthetics Begins to Come into Its Own is published in the MIT Press Journal, Leonardo.

JAN

2019

The Assembly: Photography from Houston Galleries, a FotoFest at Silver Street Studios group exhibition

FotoFest presents THE ASSEMBLY. Featuring the work of 23 artists, from 10 Houston galleries, the exhibition shows the breadth of contemporary art photography shown in the city. January 24 to March 9.

JAN

2019

The Sheltering Sky group exhibition opens at the Palo Alto Art Center

Taking its title from the iconic novel by Paul Bowles, this exhibition looks to the stars for comfort in the darkest of times. Our connection with, and attention to, the abstract concept we call the “sky” is binding, and contemplating its many facets provide rich subject matter for artists. This exhibition will explore a variety of artistic responses through works in a wide range of media.

DEC

2018

The Art of Found Objects: Enigma Variations opens at the American Museum of Southeast Texas

The group exhibition is organized by guest curator and author by Craig Bunch of San Antonio, and is an exhibit of work by artists who use found objects. They were included in Bunch’s book, The Art of Found Objects: Interviews with Texas Artists, published by Texas A&M University Press, 2016.

NOV

2018

The work of Dario Robleto is included in the exhibtion Under Construction: Collage from The Mint Museum

Featuring more than 50 international artists and more than 100 works of art, Under Construction explores the growth of the collage technique and aesthetic in the work of Romare Bearden and his colleagues from the 1950s to the present. It includes numerous works by Bearden, as well as examples by such notable artists as Robert Motherwell, Tim Rollins and K.O.S., Sam Gilliam, Howardena Pindell, Dario Robleto, Donald Sultan, and James Rosenquist.

NOV

2018

Dario Robleto Discusses "The Art of Scientific Storytelling" with PhD Students

at Northwestern Universsity's McCormick School of Engineering

NOV

2018

Northwestern PhD Seminar Series includes artist-at-large Dario Robleto as speaker

Northwestern McCormick School of Engineering PhD Seminar Series explores the relationship between art and science. In the 18th century, art and science became separate fields at the university level. Under this model, knowledge became more siloed by field. At Northwestern, Dean Julio Ottino and Dean Adrian Randolph are collaborating on a number of projects to bring the arts and sciences together again.

SEP

2018

Dario Robleto and Author Mimi Swartz in conversation at Houston's MATCH, Wedensday, September 26th

Swartz and Robleto will continue their layered conversation about the past, present and future technology of the artificial heart. This is a free, but ticketed event.
Follow the link to MATCH for tickets.

SEP

2018

Dario Robleto and Curator Rene Barilleaux in conversation at the McNay Museum, San Antonio, Thursday, September 20th

In conjunction with the exhibition Ancient Beacons Long for Notice, Dario and Rene will discuss topics in the work such as the current search for life in the Cosmos; if longing, altruism and empathy are universal and how we could communicate it across time and space; and the artists attempts to access and remember forgotten heartbeats of the 19th century.

AUG

2018

Visual Arts Alliance: Dario Robleto in conversation with collector Lester Marks

Join VAA for an enlightening conversation between collector Lester Marks and artist Dario Robleto. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions about Robleto's work, research, and practices.

JUL

2018

Visiting Artist at Maine College of Art

Summer 2018 Dario Robleto will be a visiting artist in the Master of Fine Arts program.

JUL

2018

Cut Paper Flowers with Dario Robleto at SITE Santa Fe

Sunday, July 15th learn to make cut paper flowers with Dario Robleto. Cut flowers date back to 100 BC with the creation of paper in China. The Victorians popularized the tradition to floriography, the language of flowers, as a method of communicating feelings or sending messages without words.

JUN

2018

SITE Santa Fe The Sun Awaits Our Shadows - Time Capsule Burial is re-scheduled for July 14, 2018

Inspired by the Voyager Golden Record which launched a message outside of our solar system in 1977, students worked with Dario Robleto on their own message creation which culminated in the co-creation of an an art object in the form of a time capsule. The capsule will be buried at SITE Santa Fe on July 14 at 6 pm.

JUN

2018

Dario Robleto: Ancient Beacons Long for Notice at the McNay Art Museum opens June 28, 2018

This is the McNay’s first major presentation of artworks by Dario Robleto, a San Antonio native. Robleto’s assemblages are meditations on love, death, mourning, and American history, reinforced through the artist’s passion for astronomy, biology, and psychology.

JUN

2018

Dario Robleto teaching Object Lab course at Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Students learn through engagement with scholars, artists, and manufacturers as well as from hands-on exposure to objects from the collections of the Chipstone Foundation and other museums.

JUN

2018

Dario Robleto is included in the Philp Martin Gallery exhibition, Texas

Opening June 1 and running through June 30th.
2712 S. La Cienaga, Los Angeles, CA 90034

APR

2018

Dario Robleto to hold workshop with media historian Patrick Feaster at Northwestern University on historical sound

On April 26th, artist Dario Robleto and media historian Patrick Feaster will give an in-depth behind-the-scenes look at their collaborations and experiments to date, offering a window into the technical, conceptual and emotional possibilities of engaging historical media across arts and sciences. Students will have an opportunity to try their own hands at using custom software Feaster has designed for extracting audio from images, interpreted either as spectrograms or waveforms, as well as for manipulating audio through such techniques as "melodization."

APR

2018

The Block Museum of Art hosts Dario Robleto and Patrick Feaster: Unlocking Sounds of the Past

A multi-year collaboration between artist Dario Robleto and media historian Patrick Feaster has sought to discover unexpected sensory pathways to our shared past. April 25th, 2018.

APR

2018

The Hearts Knowledge Will Never Decay, a conversation at MATCH Houston

Thursday, April 19th at 7:00 p.m. Tickets available through MATCH on the link above.
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Dario Robleto: The First Time, The Heart at Inman Gallery.
The Heart's Knowledge Will Never Decay: A conversation between Dr. Doris Taylor, Director of Regenerative Medicine Research at the Texas Heart Institute, and artist Dario Robleto

APR

2018

Dario Robleto: The First Time, The Heart opens at Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas

The exhibition will debut a new suite of prints, The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913), published by Island Press at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.
Friday, April 6th through Saturday, May 26th.
Saturday, April 7, 1:00pm, Inman Gallery
The Making of The First Time, The Heart (A Portrait of Life, 1854–1913)
Dario Robleto will be joined by Island Press master printer Tom Reed in a conversation centered around the technical challenges the printers faced in realizing Robleto’s vision for this ambitious portfolio.

MAR

2018

Dario Robleto interviews Ann Druyan at SITE Santa Fe as part of the Innovative Thinker lecture series

Each year SITE honors the achievements of a visionary educator who has innovated significantly in the field of museum and arts education.

MAR

2018

Dario Robleto part of CECA Visiting Artist Speaker Series

At Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee

FEB

2018

Life Beyond Earth (Part 1) Dario Robleto in conversation with Jamie Drew at the Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, California

Robleto and Drew discuss their participation in Breakthrough Initiatives, an international ten year program of scientific and technological exploration.

FEB

2018

FEB

2018

Elsewhere a group exhibition at the Joseph Gross Gallery at the University of Arizona in Tucson

This exhibition includes the work of Dario Robleto. It is comprised of works that traverse situational and environmental scenarios. Elsewhere opens February 1 and runs through March 23, 2018.

JAN

2018

Dario Robleto and University of Houston engineering professor Jose Contreras-Vidal, Ph.D. will give a talk about biological mechanisms.

They will discuss how biological mechanisms allow humans to engage with visual art, music, dance and other artistic disciplines.
Organized by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, held at the Duke Hospital Lecture Hall 2001on January 31, 2018.

JAN

2018

The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

Dario Robleto will be joining the ICA's new initiative - the Youth Empowerment Advisory Council. This council will focus on providing cross-disciplinary perspective and input for the planning of a large-scale conference on youth empowerment. The national conference, Building Brave Spaces: Mobilizing Teen Arts Education will be hosted by the ICA Boston from November 2 - 4, 2018.

JAN

2018

Artist Talk at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

Thursday, February 1st, 2018 Dario will give a multimedia talk on the human brain and art, entitled, “A Dream, As Faithful As A Flame.”

JAN

2018

Dario Robleto in conversation with Kerry Inman at Inman Gallery

Dario Robleto and Kerry Inman will host a walk through of the group exhibition I Won't Let You Say Goodbye This TIme.
Saturday, January 13, 2018 1:00 p.m., Inman Gallery 3901 Main Street, Houston, 77002

NOV

2017

I Won't Let You Say Goodbye This Time - a group exhibition at Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas

Opens Friday, November 10, 2017 and runs through Saturday, January 13th, 2018

NOV

2017

Love & Longing - a group exhbition at Root Division, San Francisco, California

The exhibition includes works that chip—or pound—away at the wall separating art and life—that challenge, complicate, intensify, confront, and grapple with engagement and connection.

NOV

2017

Dario Robleto included in the inaugural exhibition "la mère la mer" in San Francisco

The newly established McEvoy Foundation for the Arts (MFA) is organized as a non-profit intended to deepen public appreciation of modern and contemporary art. Founded by Nion McEvoy, CEO of Chronicle Books, MFA will display selections from the McEvoy Family Collection together with new works in visual, literary, and film and media arts.

OCT

2017

Dario Robleto is a participating artist in Prospect.4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp

Opening Weekend is November 18, 2017, the exhibitions run through February 25th, 2018. Curated by Prospect.4 Artistic Director Trevor Schoonmaker, this is the fourth iteration of a citywide exhibition. While participating artists will present a broad range of international perspectives, the works made and selected seek to resonate with the city of New Orleans—aesthetically, musically, culturally, spiritually, historically and environmentally. P.4 will include 73 artists who deal with the legacy of colonialism and feelings of displacement. Dario's work will be exhibited at the Old US Mint, 400 Esplanade Ave., New Orleans, LA 70116.

OCT

2017

Dario Robleto is included in SITE Santa Fe's grand re-opening exhibition Future Shock

The exhibition brings together the work of ten international artists whose works imagine a range of visions of our present and future. The exhibition opens October 7th and runs through April 29th, 2018.

OCT

2017

Family Day at the Frances Young Tang Teaching and Art Gallery

December 2nd in Saratoga Springs, NY Family Day will be making sculptures inspired by Dario Robleto's You Make My World a Better Place to Find

SEP

2017

Dario Robleto co-organizing and presenting at the 2017 International Conference on Mobile Brain-Body Imaging and the Neuroscience of Art, Innovation and Creativity

September 10 - 13, 2017 in Valencia, Spain
This unique and intellectually-stimulating international conference brings together thought leaders, practitioners and innovators working at the intersection of the arts, sciences, engineering, technology, medicine, and education and developing trans-disciplinary approaches to the study of brain dynamics in action and context, innovation, creativity, aesthetic experiences, emergence of intent and emotional intelligence, emotional buildings and sensing spaces, art therapy, STEAM education, as well as the latest wearable high-definition brain-body technologies.

SEP

2017

Creative Santa Fe

An Interview by Cyndi Conn based on Robleto's SETI residency and his work with Breakthrough Initiatives. Dario Robleto: Three Questions curated by Cyndi Conn.

AUG

2017

Other Side: Art, Object, Self a group exhibition at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College

Dario Robleto's work is included in this exhibition of contemporary artworks from the Tang's collection. The artworks use objects, materials, and bodies in provocative ways to encourage viewers to assess preconceived notions and to prompt critical examinations of the self - of national, cultural and personal identities. Through December 30, 2017.

AUG

2017

Video recording of Conversation with the Artist at the Menil Collection

Conversation with the Artist - Mimi Swartz, Dr. Billy Cohn, Dr. Bud Frazier, and Dario Robleto was presented by The Menil Collection on December 2, 2014 in conjunction with the exhibition Dario Robleto: The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed.

AUG

2017

Video recording of the Interplanetary Project - Panel Discussion at the Santa Fe Institute

Panelists included Sandra Moore Faber (UC Santa Cruz), professor of astronomy and astrophysics and the project investigator for the DEEP2 survey of 50,000 distant galaxies using the Keck Observatory telescopes in Hawaii - Science and technology journalist Kate Greene, who spent four months on a simulated Mars mission for NASA - Transdisciplinary artist, researcher, writer, teacher, and citizen scientist Dario Robleto (Artist-in-residence at the SETI Institute) - Digital media executive Scott Ross, who led George Lucas' companies in the 1980s and is a co-founder, along with James Cameron and Stan Winston, of Digital Domain, Inc. - Neal Stephenson, author of Seveneves, Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, and other works of speculative fiction who is is currently a Miller Scholar at the Santa Fe Institute - Geoffrey West, a complexity scientist whose 25+ years of research into mathematical scaling laws have recently been published in the widely-acclaimed book Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies.

JUL

2017

August 2017, Artist in Residence The Rauschenberg Residency

Dario Robleto chosen as one of the 2017 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Artists in Residence

JUL

2017

Interplanetary Project - Panel Discussion at the Santa Fe Institute

July 18 - Dario Robleto will join Linda Elkins-Tanton, Kate Greene, Sandra Moore Faber, Jonah Nolan and Neal Stephenson in the panel discussion - Changing the world one planet at a time. The panel will consider questions such as "What will it take to become an InterPlanetary civilization?"

JUL

2017

CAST: Art and Objects Created Using Humanity's Most Transformational Process is released

Robleto contributed both images of his cast work and a short writing to this book that brings together the writing of seven experts and 800 images to create the first-ever, in-depth resource on the 6,000 year old process of casting.

JUN

2017

Conversation with Patrick Feaster and Dario Robleto at the Menil Collection

There was a series of artist talks at the Menil Collection, Houston, TX in conjunction with the 2014 exhibition, Dario Robleto:The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed. This is the recording of the conversation presented by Dario Robleto and Patrick Feaster a Media Preservation Specialist and Audio Archeologist on October 21, 2014.

JUN

2017

Seen and Heard: An Active Commemoration of Women's Suffrage opens at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY

Dario Robleto is part of this group exhibition in celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the passage of women’s suffrage in New York State, Seen and Heard explores the use of the arts as a catalyst for social change.

JUN

2017

Opening Day Conversation at the Block Museum for the exhibition - If You Remember, I'll Remeber

Find here a video recording of the public panel discussion that took place on February 4th, 2017 with artists Dario Robleto, Samantha Hill, Kristine Aono and Marie Watt in conversation with curator Janet Dees.

MAY

2017

Artist Talk at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University

The museum in partnership with the McCormick School of Engineering hosts Dario Robleto presenting The Pulse Armed with a Pen: An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat in conjunction with the exhibition If You Remember, I'll Remember. Part storytelling, original research and rare sound archive, Dario weaves together topics as diverse as the earliest attempts to record the heartbeat as sound and image, the heartbeat and brainwave recordings currently on a probe heading for the edge of the Solar System, pre-Edison sound recordings, and recent developments in the history of the artificial heart. The result is a creative intertwining of multiple histories of human exploration, in both outer and inner space.

APR

2017

Exhibition Opening Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art at the Speed Art Museum, Louiville, KY

This exhibtion curated by Miranda Lash and Trevor Schoonmaker travels from the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina and opens on April 30th.
There will be an Artist Talk with Dario Robleto on Friday, April 28th at 6:00 p.m. in the Grand Hall.

APR

2017

Breakthrough Discuss Conference

As a participant in the Breakthrough Initiatives Dario will be in attendance at this conference.
CONFERENCE OVERVIEW
Earth has discovered a neighbor.
In August 2016, the exoplanet Proxima b was discovered on our cosmic doorstep. It orbits Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to our Sun, approximately 4.2 light-years away (25 trillion miles). This was a thrilling discovery: the closest known exoplanet to the Solar System also happens to lie within the habitable zone of its star; and just four months after its launch, Breakthrough Starshot had its first target.
Then, in February 2017, seven exoplanets were identified orbiting a dwarf star named Trappist-1, about 40 light-years (235 trillion miles) from Earth. In cosmic terms, these planets too are just down the street. As evolving observation and propulsion technologies promise to extend our vision and physical presence to interstellar destinations, these potentially habitable or life-bearing worlds are transforming the space of possibilities for life in our galactic neighborhood: possibilities for extraterrestrial life, and for the future of humanity.
The discoveries of Proxima b and the seven worlds of the Trappist-1 system will be the overarching theme for this year’s Breakthrough Discuss.

MAR

2017

Panel Discussion with International Fulbright Fellows

Dario Robleto is invited to be on the panel as Rice University hosts the International Fulbright Fellows Conference. The panel discussion is titled "What is Innovation...to You?"

MAR

2017

MAR

2017

Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga California

Dario Robleto will be in the Lucas Artists Residency Program in the Spring

MAR

2017

Phoenix Art Museum, An Evening with Dario Robleto

Artist Talk will be at 6:30 p.m. in Whiteman Hall

FEB

2017

If You Remember, I'll Remember opens at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University on February 4th

The group exhibition which runs through June 18, 2017 is an invitation to reflect on the past while contemplating the present through works of art exploring themes of love, mourning, war, relocation, internment, resistance, and civil rights in 19th and 20th century North America. Dario will be on the artists panel with the Curator Janet Dees on Saturday, February 4th.

DEC

2016

Art Matters announces Dario Robleto as one of it's 2016 Grantees

The foundation awarded 26 grants for projects and ongoing work that breaks ground aesthetically and socially.

DEC

2016

Lecture at the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design, Sounds in Inner and Outer Space: An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat

Mary Harris Auditorium on RMCAD's campus Denver, Colorado on December 1st at 6:30 p.m.

NOV

2016

Video: Dario Robleto joins Ann Druyan in a discussion of the creation of the Golden Record and the relationship between science, art, emotion, and the human desire for long-term preservation.

Dario Robleto: The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed was exhibited at the Menil Collection from August 16, 2014 to January 4, 2015.

OCT

2016

"Conversations with Artists" at The Philllips Collection, Washington, DC featuring Dario Robleto

Co-sponsored by the University of Maryland, October 27th at 6:30 p.m.

OCT

2016

Guggenheim Program: 29th Annual Hilla Rebay Lecture: Some Things to Know: Parafiction and Climate Change by Carrie Lambert-Beatty

Lambert-Beatty will draw upon paraficitonal works by artists such as Iris Häussler, Dario Robleto, the Yes Men, and Walid Raad in this exploration of contemporary art and the new knowledge politics.

OCT

2016

Triumph School Manual Project October 14th to 16th, Dario Robleto is a contributor

A diverse group of artists and cultural producers have each written interpretive manuals that will be realized and produced collectively by the participants – you – without the oversight of the authors.

OCT

2016

The Sun Placed in the Abyss opens October 7, 2016 at the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio

The Sun Placed in the Abyss brings together the work of more than 50 contemporary artists who, since 1970, have explored the essential relationship between photography and the sun. Delving into the historical, social, and technological conditions of photography, this dynamic exhibition highlights our enduring interest in our closest star.

SEP

2016

Sam Fox School Fall Public Lecture Series

At 6:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 19, Dario Robleto will deliver the Arthur L. and Sheila Prensky Island Press Visiting Artist Lecture for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.

SEP

2016

Fall Visiting Artist at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Art

and Island Press Contemporary Print Editions and Artist Projects at Washington University in St Louis

SEP

2016

North Carolina Public Radio WUNC, Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art Interview

Host Frank Stasio talks with Miranda Lash co-curator of 'Southern Accent,' as well as Stacy Lynn Waddell, a Chapel Hill-based artist, and Dario Robleto, a Houston-based artist.

SEP

2016

Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art opens September 1, at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

This unprecedented exhibition addresses and complicates the many realities, fantasies and myths that have long captured the public’s imagination about the American South. Presenting a wide range of perspectives, from both within and outside of the region, the exhibition creates a composite portrait of southern identity through the work of 60 artists. The art reflects upon and pulls apart the dynamic nature of the South’s social, political and cultural landscape.

JUL

2016

Dario Robleto co-organizing the 2016 international Conference on Mobile Brain-Body Imaging (MoBI) and the Neuroscience of Art, Innovation and Creativity

The conference seeks to unite thought-leaders and innovators acting at the intersection of the arts, neuroscience, engineering, media, industry, education and medicine to review the state of the art, identify challenges and opportunities and create a roadmap for the field moving forward to promote creativity and innovation leading to novel approaches to solving complex challenges in engineering, science, education and medicine while informing the emergent fields of neuroaesthetics and neurocreativity.

JUN

2016

Group Exhibition, It's Official - Texas State Artists 2015 & 2016, opens June 25, 2016

Holly Johnson Gallery
1845 Levee Street, Dallas TX 75207

MAY

2016

Explode Every Day: An Inquiry Into The Phenomena of Wonder a group exhibition opens in May at MASS MoCA

Harnessing the idea of wonder as a thematic metaphor, the exhibition features both existing and new works by twenty-three international artists, each touching on certain facets of wonder, including: the perceptual/ visionary, the technological/scientific, the philosophical/meditative, time/cosmos, and illusion/fear.

APR

2016

Video airing on PBS New Mexico

In this ¡COLORES! special, SITE Santa Fe creators discuss the need for a thought-provoking, contemporary artistic dialogue in New Mexico.

APR

2016

Dario Robleto to Lecture at Santa Fe Institute

Robleto will give a lecture about his life lifelong passion for building bridges between the arts and sciences 

April 04, 2016 

12:15 PM, Collins Conference Room

APR

2016

Group Exhibition, Les Incessants, opens April 1, 2016

Dario Robleto's work is included in this group exhibition at the Villa du Parc in Annemasse, France.

MAR

2016

Group show at ACME., Los Angeles - Hadley Holliday, Demetrius Oliver, Dario Robleto

Group Exhibition opens March 19, 2016 runs through April 23, 2016.
6150 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048

MAR

2016

Bad at Sports podcast

Dario Robleto interviewed about SETI Artist-in-Residence program

FEB

2016

Dario Robleto co-editor on special issue of Frontiers of Human Neuroscience

Submissions now being accepted on research topic "Mobile Brain/Body Imaging and the Neuroscience of Art, Innovation and Creativity"

FEB

2016

A View Of The Present From The Future At SECCA, WFDD Triad Arts Radio Broadcast

Triad Arts Radio Host David Ford interviews Dario Robleto.

FEB

2016

Dario Robleto is one of the participants in the Symposium, A Conversation Between Artists, Scholars, And Curators at Harvard University

In association with the exhibition Prosthetic Realities, Fake Truths and True Lies in Colombian Contemporary Art. February 25th, 2016. Open to the public. Harvard University, CGIS South, TSAI Auditorium from 2:00 to 7:00 p.m.

FEB

2016

Sounds of Silence: Dario Robleto and the Transubstantiation of Music presented by Jennie Hirsh, Maryland Institute College of Art

February 5th at The College Art Association 104th Annual Conference, Washington, DC

FEB

2016

The Future We Remember, Opening Reception at Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Please join us for a live presentation of "The Pulse Armed With a Pen: An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat" by artist Dario Robleto. 7 - 8 p.m. in the McChesney Scott Dunn Auditorium.

FEB

2016

The Future We Remember, on view February 2-June 5, 2016 at Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

The Future We Remember brings together a group of contemporary artists whose work collapses the distance between past and future, offering up fictions and fantasies of what culture, technology, and ecology will become. 

JAN

2016

Desirae Peters paper published on ANAGPIC, the Association of North American Graduate Programs in Conservation website

Conservation Through Conversation: Material and Meaning in the Work of Dario Robleto

JAN

2016

Dario Robleto Named Artist In Residence For Program Of The Galactic Variety

Houston Public Medias' Amy Bishop interviews Dario Robleto.

DEC

2015

SETI AIR: Dario Robleto named as Artist in Residence at the SETI Institute

SETI AIR facilitates an exchange of ideas between artists and scientists such that these disciplines may inspire each other and lead to new modes of comprehension and expression.

NOV

2015

Original Research Article published on Frontiers in Human Neuroscience website

Your Brain on Art: Emergent Cortical Dynamics During Aesthetic Experiences

NOV

2015

"At the intersection of neuroscience and art" article published on the National Science Foundation website

The blending of cognition and engineering to reveal the neural basis of creativity.

NOV

2015

National Science Foundation video featuring Neuroscience and Art research

Video features Pepe Contreras Vidal's research and Dario Robleto's Menil exhibition The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed

NOV

2015

Searching for Answers in the Real World

Scientists Work With Artists to Learn about the Brain

NOV

2015

Dario Robleto, School of Art Lecture at Louisiana State University

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

5:00 to 6:00 p.m. College of Art and Design Auditorium

NOV

2015

Dario Robleto appointed as Artist-in-Residence in Neuroaesthetics at the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering

Three prominent Houston artists were recently appointed as the first Artists-in-Residence in Neuroaesthetics at the University of Houston

OCT

2015

Video recording of the Menil Collection Artist Talk: Dario Robleto and Ann Druyan

Conversation on September 23, 2014 during the exhibition Dario Robleto: The Boundary of Life Is Quietly Crossed, between Dario and Ann Druyan

OCT

2015

Univeristy of Houston Artist Talk: Your Brain on Art with Lily Cox-Richard, Jo Ann Fleischhauer and Dario Robleto

October 13, 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. A collaboration between Blaffer Art Museum, Houston-based artists, and the University of Houston’s Noninvasive Brain-Machine Interface Systems Laboratory, seeking clues to what happens in the brain as people create and contemplate art.

OCT

2015

Reality of My Surroundings:The Contemporary Collection, Group Exhibition opens at the Nasher Museum of Art

Duke University, Durham NC

The Nasher Museum presents some of its most significant works from the contemporary collection. October 1, 2015 through July 10, 2016

SEP

2015

Affinity Atlas Group Exhibition opens at The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College

Williamstown, MA

An exhibition inspired by the last work of the pioneering art historian Aby Warburg.

SEP

2015

SITE Santa Fe, September 22 - Dario Robleto Artist Talk at San Miguel Chapel

Part storytelling, original research and rare sound archive, artist Dario Robleto’s speaks about The Pulse Armed With a Pen: An Unknown History of the Human.

SEP

2015

EXPO Chicago 2015, Dario Robleto works exhibited at Inman Gallery Booth 619

Friday, September 18 through Sunday, September 20

Navy Pier
600 E Grand Ave
Chicago, IL 60611

AUG

2015

Knew Normal a group exhibition

516 Arts in Albuquerque, New Mexico August 29 through October 31

JUL

2015

An Artist Among the Stars: Dario Robleto, Houston Public Media interview

Amy Bishop talks with Dario Robleto about his participation in the Breakthrough Initiatives project.

JUL

2015

Dario Robleto to participate in "Breakthrough Initiatives"

Yuri Milner was joined at The Royal Society by Stephen Hawking, Martin Rees, Frank Drake, Geoff Marcy, Pete Worden and Ann Druyan to announce the unprecedented $100 million global Breakthrough Initiatives to reinvigorate the search for life in the universe.

JUL

2015

SITE 20 Years/20 Shows: Summer at SITE Santa Fe, Sante Fe, New Mexico

Janine Antoni, Amy Cutler, Ann Hamilton, Harmony Hammond, Dario Robleto opens July 18, 2015 and runs through October 4, 2015

JUN

2015

Ploughshares Interview

Lara Palmquist interviews Dario Robleto for Ploughshares Literary Journal blog

MAY

2015

Houston Public Media interview Dario Robleto

Amy Bishop interviews Dario Robleto on recognition as Official Texas State Artist

MAY

2015

Texas Selects Artists To Represent The State.

The 2016 appointees include Texas Poet Laureate Laurie Ann Guerrero of San Antonio, Texas State Musician Joe Ely of Austin, Texas State Two-Dimensional Artist Dornith Doherty of Southlake, and Texas State Three-Dimensional Artist Dario Robleto of Houston.

APR

2015

University of Houston, Honors College. Links and Labyrinths: Encyclopedia as World. Tuesday April 21, 2015 at 5:30 p.m.

Join us for a discussion of the phenomenon of the encyclopedia. Professor John Harvey, publisher Joseph N. Newland, and artist Dario Robleto.

MAR

2015

The Signal WYPR radio program, Dario Robleto at the BMA

Producer Aaron Henkin visits with Robleto at the BMA for a tour through the exhibition.

MAR

2015

JAN

2015

Sampling, group show opens at Pavel Zoubok Gallery, January 8, 2015

531 West 26th Street, New York, NY

January 8 to February 7, 2015

DEC

2014

University of Houston researchers at the Menil Collection

Thursday, December 18, 11 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. & Saturday, December 20, 1-5 p.m. See Menil Facebook for more details.


DEC

2014

The Modern Art Notes Podcast

No. 161: Rebecca Morse, Dario Robleto

NOV

2014

Film Screening; Man, Art, Machines

Tuesday, November 18, 6:30 p.m. at the Menil Collection

1533 Sul Ross Street

PRESS

MAR

2024

Q&A with artist Dario Robleto: Amon Carter Museum of American Art

New Q&A with Dario Robleto, an artist, writer, and filmmaker based in Houston, Texas. We talked with him to learn more about the inspiration behind his upcoming exhibition at the Carter, Dario Robleto: The Signal, on view from May 12 through October 27, 2024.

APR

2023

The Common Ground Between Art and Science

By Brian Sandalow
Professor Malcolm MacIver and artist Dario Robleto spoke during an April 12 event

FEB

2023

Open your eyes to Science on Screen

Dario Robleto’s exhibit at the Block Museum and the associated film series explore the beauty and the price of humanity’s quest for knowledge.

FEB

2023

Finding Emotion and Empathy in Science

By Brian Sandalow
Dario Robleto discussed his new exhibition during a February 4 opening.

NOV

2022

Dario Robleto, Ann Druyan, and the Essence of Humanity

By Brian Sandalow
Robleto previewed his upcoming art exhibit during a Dean’s Seminar Series lecture

JAN

2020

The Sorcerer's Burden: Contemporary Art and the Anthropological Turn

This ambitious exhibition reveals inquiring anthropologists within today's artists.
By Robert Fairies

DEC

2019

Bringing the human heart to life

Artist Dario Robleto and cardiovascular scientist Doris Taylor are each experts on the human heart. They learned even more about it from one another.
By Ceci Menchetti

NOV

2019

Harvard Gazette: The Heart of the Matter

A Transdisciplinary artist and a transplant researcher discuss the biology, imagery, and symbolism of a very vital organ
By Colleen Walsh

JUL

2019

The Brooklyn Rail

Entwined: Artist’s Voice and Conservator’s Expertise
Carol Mancusi-Ungaro

JUL

2019

New Interview in The Tang Teaching Museum's Accelerate No.2

Dario Robleto: On Sampling and Manipulating Objects Into Art

FEB

2019

Citizen scientist and artist explores the cultural significance of the heartbeat

The Intersection of Art and Medicine
Britni R. McAshan

JUL

2018

Houston Chronicle

Dario Robleto crafts art with empathetic expansion
Molly Glentzer

JUL

2018

Glasstire

Top Five: July 12, 2018 with Sara Cress and Elaine Bradford

JUL

2018

San Antonio Current

The Alchemist: The McNay Opens a Window into the Fascinating Work of San Antoinio Native Dario Robleto
Bryan Rindfuss

JUN

2018

Rivard Report

A Lone Heartbeat in the Void of Space Inspires Robleto's McNay Exhibition
Nicholas Frank

AUG

2017

SCIART Magazine co-authored with Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal

Looking Under the Sacred Rock: How Collaborations between Scientists and Artists Can More Deeply Probe the Mysteries of Creativity
Dario Robleto and Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal

JUL

2017

Santa Fe Reporter

Out of this World, Santa Fe Institute launches an InterPlanetary Project with galactic ambitions
Julia Goldberg

JAN

2017

Northwestern Now

'If You Remember, I'll Remember' poses timely questions
Stephanie Kulke

NOV

2016

Westword

Artist Dario Robleto on Neuroaesthetics and the Soul of the Heart
Susan Froyd

OCT

2016

SciArt Magazine

Straight Talk with Dario Robleto
Julia Buntaine

SEP

2016

HYPERALLERGIC

'Southern Accent' Is a Revolutionary Exploded Diagram of Southern Identity in Contemporary Art
Brian Howe

JUL

2016

Dallas Observer

Satellite of Love: Dario Robleto's Art Sounds Like Humanity at Its Best
Jamie Laughlin

JUN

2016

The Boston Globe

At Mass MoCA, wondering about wonder
Sebastian Smee

MAY

2016

Art in America

Houston Loves Eccentrics
Bill Arning

DEC

2015

The Wall Street Journal

Is It Beautiful? How Our Brains Judge Art in Seconds

Robert Lee Hotz

AUG

2015

Art in America

SITE Santa Fe Celebrates 20 Years

Wendy Vogel

JUL

2015

Pasatiempo

The sound of two hearts beating: Dario Robleto

Paul Weideman

JUL

2015

Houston Chronicle

If we find extraterrestrials, what do we say to them?

Molly Glentzer

APR

2015

Literal

The Boundary Between Fact and Likelihood: Dario Robleto at the Menil Collection

Fernando Castro

FEB

2015

Modern Painters

Reviews: Baltimore, Dario Robleto

Risa Puleo

JAN

2015

Artforum

ARTFORUM Critics Picks, Dario Robleto: Baltimore Museum of Art

Marcus Civin

JAN

2015

Baltimore City Paper

Dario Robleto's 'Setlists For a Setting Sun' is like a religious shrine for scientists

Maura Callahan

JAN

2015

Bmore Art

An Uneasy Synthesis
Cara Ober

DEC

2014

Smithsonian.com

Making Dead People's Pulses Beat Again

Rachel Nuwer

DEC

2014

The New York Times

The Echoes of Hearts Long Silenced

Ron Cowen

DEC

2014

Houstonia

The 10 Best Art Exhibitions of 2014

Michael Hardy

NOV

2014

Glasstire

Until That Goodbye

Hills Snyder

OCT

2014

TMC PULSE

Exploring the Depths of the Human Heart

Zoe Quezada

OCT

2014

The Daily Cougar

Science and art come together through brainwaves

Luiza Braga

SEP

2014

University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering News

Professor Teams up with Local Artist to Study Aesthetic Experiences in the Brain, (with video)
Audrey Grayson

SEP

2014

art ltd.

Dario Robleto

Nancy Zastudil

AUG

2014

University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering News

ECE Brain Machine Interface Expert Teams Up With Artist At The Menil Collection
Melanie Ziems

AUG

2014

Houstonia

This Is Your Brain on Art

Michael Hardy

AUG

2014

Houston Chronicle

Fossilized eardrums. And sounds no longer on this planet.

Reporters notebook: Artist Dario Robleto at the Menil Collection

Molly Glentzer

AUG

2014

Houston Press

Secrets of the Heart: Dario Robleto at the Menil Collection

Adam Castaneda

AUG

2014

Houston Chronicle

Dario Robleto's beat goes on at the Menil

Molly Glentzer

AUG

2014

arts+culture

Dario Robleto's Cardiosonic Chronicle

Devon Britt-Darby

AUG

2014

Texas Monthly

The Checklist

Jeff Salamon

AUG

2014

Houstonia

Matters of the Heart, A Menil show searches for beauty in the beat.

Michael Hardy

NOV

2013

Technikart

Dario Robleto: Galerie Praz-Delavallade

JUL

2013

The Atlantic

Blankets, the Original Viral Media

Kara Thompson

MAR

2013

Eye Level, Smithsonian American Art Museum

The Civil War and American Art: Six Questions for "Materialist Poet" Dario Robleto

Eleanor Harvey

FEB

2013

Indy Week

The Ackland's landmark but short-term More Love exhibition
Chris Vitiello

DEC

2012

Art in America

More Real: Art In The Age of Truthiness

Jennie Hirsh

JUL

2012

Time Magazine

True Lies. A new show explores art in the age of Stephen Colbert

Richard Lacayo


APR

2012

ARTnews

Use Your Illusion: Contemporary sculptors are tricking the eye and the mind with uncannily realistic objects

Hilarie M. Sheets

DEC

2011

GUERNICA/magazine of art & politics

Dario Robleto: Best 2011 Art Show NYers Won't See

Rebecca Bates

MAY

2011

Artforum

Reviews

Eva Diaz

APR

2011

The Boston Globe

Works spun off a record turntable: ICA show captures artists' love of vinyl

Sebastian Smee

APR

2011

Artinfo.com

Studio Tracks: Artist Dario Robleto on Being Inspired by Morrisey, Marianne Faithful, and Conor Oberst


APR

2011

ARTnews

History in the Making

Ann Landi

MAR

2011

Art in America

Soul Searching in the USA

by Michael Duncan

FEB

2011

The Denver Post

Sculptor Dario Robleto's poetic artwork a tribute to 9/11

Kyle MacMillan

OCT

2010

Los Angeles Times

What Connects is What Bonds

David Pagel

JAN

2010

Art Lies

Dario Robleto

Dan R. Goddard

SEP

2009

Houston Chronicle

Texas sculptor's work graces Yo La Tengo album cover

Douglas Britt

SEP

2009

Pitchfork

Take Cover: Yo La Tengo's Popular Songs 

Tom Breihan

JUN

2009

The Boston Globe

Tweaking History at DeCordova

Sebastian Smee

OCT

2008

The Believer

Real Life Rock Top Ten

Greil Marcus

JUL

2008

San Antonio Express-News

Robleto adds inventive new air to Seattle Museum

Dan R. Goddard

JUL

2008

San Antonio Express-News

The Mix Master

Dan R. Goddard

JUN

2008

The Seattle Times

The alluring alchemy of Dario Robleto

Sheila Farr

JUN

2008

The Stranger

Death: The Remix

Jen Graves

MAY

2008

Houston Chronicle

Dust in the Wind

Britt Douglas

FEB

2008

Texas Monthly

35 People Who Will Shape Our Future


NOV

2007

Fundacao Ibere Camargo

Complete Interview

Camila Gonzatto

NOV

2007

Art in America

Remixing the Past

Michael Duncan


MAR

2007

Sculpture

Dario Robleto: The Phantasm of Matter

Gerry Craig

NOV

2006

Artforum

Dario Robleto

Frances Richard

OCT

2006

Winston-Salem Journal

What's Left: Bullets, Bandages Transformed

Tom Patterson

SEP

2006

The New York Times

Dario Robleto: Fear and Tenderness in Men

Roberta Smith

SEP

2006

Interview

Dario Robleto: A Contemporary Mix-Master for Our Time

Justin Conner

JUN

2006

The New York Times

Giving the Artists a Voice in Preserving Their Work

Randy Kennedy

FEB

2006

ARTnews

Top 10 Trends: American Gothic

Edith Newhall

JAN

2006

InterReview

John Lowther on Dario Robleto

John Lowther

JAN

2006

InterReview

Regine Basha interviews Dario Robleto

Regine Basha

JAN

2006

Art Lies

Ahistoric Occasions: Artists Making History - MASS MoCA

John Navarro

DEC

2005

PRESENTspace.org

The Magic That's Possible

Bea Camacho

JAN

2005

Hand Papermaking Magazine

Material History: The Handmade Paper Work of Dario Robleto

Lauren Ross

SEP

2004

Artforum

Treble: Sculpture Center, New York

Christopher Cox

JUN

2004

WNYC Radiolab

Space

(recording)

Jad Abumrad

MAR

2004

San Antonio Express-News

San Antonio artist shines at N.Y. show

Dan Goddard

MAR

2004

New York Magazine

Biennial Favorites

Karen Rosenberg

JAN

2004

Art on Paper

Dario Robleto: First Impressions

Peter Nesbett

JAN

2004

FlashArt

Dario Robleto: ACME.

Alex Worman

JAN

2004

Art Lies

Conversation with a Resurrectionist: Dario Robleto

Paula Owen

DEC

2003

Artforum

Best of 2003

Thelma Golden

JUL

2003

New York Press

Dust to Dust

Art Janik

MAY

2003

The New York Times

ART REVIEW; Uptown, Too, Has Heat and Light Aplenty

Holland Cotter

APR

2003

The New York Times

ART/ARCHITECTURE; Conceptual Artist As Mad Scientist

Joe Holley

MAR

2003

San Antonio Express-News

S.A. artist's work draws acclaim in N.Y.

Dan R. Goddard

MAR

2003

Houston Press

In the Trenches

John Devine

JAN

2003

Tema Celeste

Interview

Paola Morisani

DEC

2002

ARTnews

Art Rocks

Barbara Pollack

FEB

2002

Los Angeles Times

For the Record: A Warped History Dedicated to Vinyl

Holly Myers

SEP

2001

Artforum

Dario Robleto

Barry Schwabsky

JAN

2001

The New York Times

Thrifting

Holland Cotter

JAN

2000

TRANS>

Song Factory Substrates

Hamza Walter

APR

1999

Art in America

Dario Robleto at Blue Star Art Space

Michael Duncan

SEP

1998

artnet.com

Letter from San Antonio

Franklin Sirmans