October 15, 2024
Ancient Beacons Long for Notice: a conversation with Dario Robleto
In his prints, sculptures, and films, multi-disciplinary artist Dario Robleto incorporates a deep fascination with science, history, sound, medicine, and human empathy. His 2024 film, “Ancient Beacons Long for Notice,” is currently installed at the Middlebury College Museum of Art in the exhibit, “An Invitation to Awe.” He will join Guest Curator Katy Smith Abbott in conversation, as they explore Robleto’s conviction that “awe is a courtship with the unknown.”
September 27, 2024
In Dario Robleto’s The Signal, Love is Imperative
by Hills Snyder
It’s a long way from the Milky Way to the Jacksboro Highway, but I hope in your travels you will make it to Fort Worth, Texas in time to see Dario Robleto’s The Signal at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. The show features sculpture, works on paper, and a seventy-minute commissioned video.
September 13, 2024
Group exhibition, An Invitation to Awe, opens at the Middlebury College Museum of Art
This fall, the Middlebury College Museum of Art will host An Invitation to Awe. At the core of the exhibit are questions about where and how awe is most readily experienced. Older paintings and prints will be displayed in conversation with contemporary objects, scientific equipment, and interactive works that compel the viewer to think of how awe is experienced through senses other than sight.
September 7, 2024
Bob Dylan, Prehistoric Whale Bones and Space Aliens — Artist Dario Robleto Weaves the Impossible Into Art In Fort Worth
By Benda Melgoza Ciardiello
August 29, 2024
National Gallery of Art Commissions New Film by Dario Robleto
By Jessica Fuentes
August 7, 2024
Collaboration, part 1: The art historian and the artist
How can an art historian be inspired by science? We asked art historian Jennifer Roberts to find out!
Roberts has collaborated with artist Dario Robleto on a variety of projects and exhibitions inspired by science. We talked with Roberts to learn more about the ways she has been both inspired and challenged by science throughout her career, from the concept of light years to the scale of the universe.
This blog post is part 3 of 3 in our series with art historian Jennifer Roberts.
July 5, 2024
In Memory
September 6, 2025
Conservation is a Logic of Love:
Dario Robleto in conversation at the National Gallery of Art
Group exhibition, In Memory, opens at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art.
Participating Artists include: Edgar Arceneaux; Hannah Baer; Edward Bateman; Rebecca Campbell; Cara Despain; Angela Ellsworth; Ryan Habermeyer; Emily Hawkins; Julia Jacquette; William Kentridge; René Magritte; Ana Mendieta; Leah Moses; Oscar Muñoz; Helga Landauer Olshvang; Daisy Patton; Dario Robleto; Dalila Sanabria; Michael Scoggins; Do Ho Suh; Mike Womack
July 3, 2024
Collaboration, part 2: Perspectives on science.
How do an art historian and an artist approach the studies of science together? We asked art historian Jennifer Roberts to find out!
Roberts is passionate about science and has collaborated with artist Dario Robleto on a variety of projects that blend the arts and sciences. We talked with Roberts to learn more about the ways she and Robleto have approached the studies of science from the perspective of an art historian and an artist.
This blog post is part 2 of 3 in our series with art historian Jennifer Roberts.
May 15, 2024
Collaboration, part 3: The art historian and the artist.
How do an art historian and an artist work together? We asked art historian Jennifer Roberts to find out!
Roberts works across the arts, humanities, and sciences and has collaborated with artist Dario Robleto on a variety of projects, from contemporary exhibitions to book collaborations. We talked with Roberts to learn more about their unique collaborative relationship.
This blog post is part 1 of 3 in our series with art historian Jennifer Roberts.
May, 2024
Dario Robleto Culminates Multiyear Exploration of NASA’s Golden Record with New Film and Solo Exhibition
April, 2024
The film is included in the exhibition Little Beasts: Art, Wonder, and the Natural World. Art played a pivotal role during the dawn of European natural history in the 16th and 17th centuries. Advancements in scientific technology, trade, and colonial expansion allowed naturalists to study previously unknown and overlooked insects, animals, and other beestjes, or “little beasts.” The film will explore how artists such as Joris Hoefnagel and Jan van Kessel helped deepen and spread knowledge of these creatures with highly detailed and playful works that inspired generations of printmakers, painters, decorative artists, and naturalists.
April, 2024
A new show in Fort Worth features the unclassifiable work of Dario Robleto, connecting deep space, popular culture, and the ancient fossil record. By Michael Agresta
April, 2024
By Nancy Zastudil
March, 2024
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.
March, 2024
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.
February, 2024
Dynamic Group Exhibition Explores the Interconnection Between Cultural Traditions and Urgent Ecological Concerns.
Featured artists include: Terry Adkins, Firelei Báez, Radcliffe Bailey, Rina Banerjee, Christi Belcourt, María Berrío, Mel Chin, Andrea Chung, Sonya Clark, Maia Cruz Palileo, Annalee Davis, Tamika Galanis, Allison Janae Hamilton, Barkley L. Hendricks, Alexa Kleinbard, Hung Liu, Hew Locke, Meryl McMaster, Wangechi Mutu, Dario Robleto, Jim Roche, Kathleen Ryan, Sheldon Scott, Renée Stout, Monique Verdin, Stacy Lynn Waddell, Charmaine Watkiss, Marie Watt, Carrie Mae Weems, and Peter Williams.
September 1, 2023
Exhibition Review: The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto
by Emile Mausner
June 27, 2023
New Interview with Dario Robleto
Published in Sculpture Journal, Voume 32 Number 2
April 27, 2023
Dario Robleto awarded a 2023 VIA ART FUND grant for the production of Ancient Beacons Long for Notice
Since 2013, VIA Art Fund has awarded over $8 million in funding to support visionary artists, organizations and initiatives in contemporary art. VIA provides funding in two grant categories – Artistic Production and Incubator support. Our Artistic Production grants are awarded to fund the production, exhibition, (semi)permanent installation or institutional acquisition of new artistic commissions in the public realm.
