The San Antonio-native is well known for using ephemeral and archaic materials, including vinyl records, dinosaur fossils, impact glass formed by meteorites, human tears, and heartbeats to create poetic statements that celebrate our faith in the materials and objects that shape our lives. Influenced by both conceptual art and popular forms of music sampling, Robleto mixes these materials in order to understand the present through the past in an ongoing pursuit of a collective desire for chance, hope, and immortality. He compares his methods to those of a DJ, digging through the dusty record bins of history, searching for the perfect moment, memory, or material—one to sample, splice, or mix with others to create something that is indeed the sum of its parts, but also much more. Dario Robleto has shown extensively throughout the United States and his work is included in numerous public collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC; The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY among others.
